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...
Orthodox Quote for June 12
“We do not think about how to change the world with our own powers. We strive to receive strength from God in order to act at all times with...
Orthodox Devotional for Sunday, June 12
ST. AUGUSTINE: He does not say, That I and they maybe one, though He might have said so in the sense, that He was the head of the Church,...
Orthodox Quote for June 11
“The time of the end, though it seems to be near, we do not know. However close, it is still future, and in the present we have only the...
WISDOM FROM MODERN ORTHODOX ELDERS
“Force yourselves in your spiritual duties for forcefulness in spiritual things is like a solid wall that does not let the River run into the garden and destroy what...
Orthodox Quote for June 10
“Your believing in Christ’s resurrection from the dead means that you believe in your own resurrection and so in the resurrection of the world from every death. Or rather,...
Orthodox Quote for June 10
“With God there is no past evil, where there is a good present. When God forgave you, it means He forgave you for #8221; (Elder Arsenie Papacioc+ of Romania)
Orthodox Quote for June 9
“The Great Feast of the Ascension is not a decline from the glory of Pascha. It is, rather, the fulfillment of Pascha, and a movement upward toward the Kingdom...