Orthodox Quote for February 3
“The Church is not a miracle factory. We are not saved by miracles, but by our life in the Church. Some hunt for wonderworking, myrrh-streaming icons and relics, but...
Orthodox Quote for January 31
“…you should not give your hearts to material things. Some people dedicate themselves to material things. They spend all their day absorbed in doing a job and do not...
Orthodox Quote for January 30
“He who after his venerable and life-giving passion and death went down into the region of the infernal abode suddenly introduced the light of his majesty upon those who...
Orthodox Quote for January 29
“To say I struggle to live a Christian life would be a colossal understatement. Daily I ask God for forgiveness and strength. I approach the Holy Cross with humility...
Daily Devotional for January 29 – February 4
Sunday Continuing Navarre Commentary on Mary’s ‘Magnificat’ in Luke 1 “And his mercy is on these who fear him from generation to generation”: “At the very moment of the...
Orthodox Quote for January 28
“…those coverings themselves also become holy. We can see this in the account of the Byzantine Empress Eudokia who donated her personal veil/head-covering to a monastery for use as...
Orthodox Quote for January 27
“…you now see that Jesus finds them actively fishing. But he neither resisted them at first when they desired to withdraw from him, nor having withdrawn themselves, did he...
Orthodox Quote for January 26
“It is the Church that tells us what is Scripture, and it is also the Church that tells us how Scripture is to be understood… The words of Scripture...
Orthodox Quote for January 25
“We remind that Christ’s blood shed by the Savior for the world’s life will be taken in the celebration of the Communion by those who give murderous orders, not...
Orthodox Quote for January 23
“What benefit will all my possessions bring to me at the Dread Judgment if I, in my miserliness, preserve them for myself alone, for, at that Judgment, those who...