Orthodox Quote for December 12
“When your mind does wander during prayer, bring it back. When it wanders again, bring it back again. Each and every time that you read a prayer while your...
Orthodox Quote for December 11
“In essence, prayer is our conversation with God, with our Heavenly Father. In the Gospel it says that Christ, the Son of God, would seclude Himself and pray. This...
Orthodox Quote for December 10
“The despondent believer ceases to believe in the providence of God. But whoever believes in Christ must trust in God, come what may, and accept the will of God...
Orthodox Quote for December 9
“Wherefore let us give up vain and fruitless cares, and approach to the glorious and venerable rule of our holy calling. Let us attend to what is good, pleasing,...
Orthodox Quote for December 8
“Free will is given to man not to do what is unreasonable or harmful, but the conscience is given for man to compel himself to avoid evil and do...
Orthodox Quote for December 7
“A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept… Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. The friendship which can cease has never...
Orthodox Quote for December 6
“Wherefore with full assurance let us partake as of the Body and Blood of Christ: for in the figure of bread is given to you His Body, and in...
Daily Devotional for December 6 – 12
Sunday This Week Excerpts from St. Nikolai’s Prologue… But behold how the Prophet Jeremiah is crowned with glory in the other life! Gray hairs and exceeding glorious! Around him...
Orthodox Quote for December 5
“It should be noted, that none of the holy women are taken into the Saviour’s genealogy, but rather such as Scripture has condemned, that He who came for sinners...
Orthodox Quote for December 4
“ The bread, which is produced from the earth, when it receives the invocation of God, is no longer common bread, but the eucharist, consisting of two realities, earthly and...