Orthodox Devotion for June 19, Pentecost
“On the Jewish feast of Pentecost, there were to be offered to the Lord every year in perpetuity two loaves of bread, the first-fruits of the new harvest. So...
WISDOM FROM MODERN ORTHODOX ELDERS
“Now you see that grace has come again… Now it has come but again it will leave in order to send you from the passions. This will happen until...
Orthodox Quote for June 18
“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to...
Orthodox Quote for June 17
“St. John Chrysostom says that the Church lives only in times of persecution. In another place he says that the worst kind of persecution the Church can endure is...
Orthodox Quote for June 16
“If you humble yourself, you will be raised up; if you are proud and lofty, you will be bent down, for God will certainly find a weight to bend...
WISDOM FROM MODERN ORTHODOX ELDERS
“Everywhere today the disease of disbelief has entered deeply into the minds, and most of all the hearts, of men. Our Orthodoxy, even when it is outwardly still correct,...
Orthodox Quote for June 15
“We are specifically created by God and actually man is the summit of creation. Nothing created is greater than man. Between us and the animals is a huge chasm....
WISDOM FROM MODERN ORTHODOX ELDERS
“Have you not heard that paradise is open again? Not paradise on earth but in heaven, not in time but in eternity… If you have heard this but you...
Orthodox Quote for June 14
“…the shedding of the habit (or, for Orthodox clergy, the cassock) is a mistake. It is true that the monastic or the clergyman knows who they are, and do...
Orthodox Quote for June 13
“For no excuse will abide you in the day of judgment, when you will be judged by your own sentence, and as you have dealt towards others, will be...