Orthodox Quote for February 19
“The way of the Church is love; it differs from the way of the legalists. The Church sees everything with tolerance and seeks to help each person, whatever he...
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....
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...
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...
Orthodox Quote for February 12
“One who seeks mercy from God shows clearly that he does not demand the fruit of his own merit and the debt of his own zeal but that he...
Orthodox Quote for February 11
“Go to church early. We do Orthros for the faithful and not for the chairs!” (Elder Epiphanios Theodoropoulos+ in ‘Counsels for Life’)