Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders
“I became another, a new person. I turned everything I saw into prayer. I preferred it to myself. Why does the bird sing and glorify its maker? I wanted...
Orthodox Quote for February 18
“… does not accept the idea of ‘equality of confessions’ and cannot perceive the unity of the Church as some inter-confessional #8221; (Russian Patriarch Kirill, 2016 statement)
Orthodox Quote for February 17
“Krestiankin spends all his time in the cathedral. Not limiting himself to preaching only during services, he conducts talks with individual believers who come to him; he won’t let...
Orthodox Quote for February 16
“A truly humble person never behaves like a teacher; he will listen, and, whenever his opinion is requested, he responds humbly. In other words, he replies like a student....
Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders
“I once met a theologian who was extremely pious, but who had the habit of speaking to the (secular) people around him in a very blunt manner; his method...
Orthodox Quote for February 15
“The term “saint” or “sanctity” (holiness) is something entirely irrelevant and foreign to our time, and to the civilization and the quests of contemporary Man. Which parents nowadays have...
Orthodox Quote for February 14
“My Lord if you knew the gift of God, you would be happy together with your empire and would reject the worship of idols and worship the True God...
Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders
“The most important thing in the spiritual life is to strive to receive the grace of the Holy Spirit. It changes our lives (above all inwardly, not outwardly). We...
Sunday Devotion for February 14
Gospel commentary from the Sunday of Zaccheus Luke 19:1-10 Come and let us see what was the method of Zacchaeus’s conversion. He desired to see Jesus and therefore climbed...
Orthodox Quote for February 13
“Scripture teaches us that God led his people of Israel out of Egypt and into a forty-year journey of hardship in a lonely and forbidding wilderness. And yet, at...