Orthodox Quote for July 30
“It is our responsibility as parents and teachers to make sure that our kids don’t just know about Jesus, as if He were a character in a novel or...
Orthodox Quote for July 29
“There will undoubtedly be an increasing number of Orthodox converts in America and Europe in the coming decade, and we must strive that our missionary witness to them will...
Orthodox Quote for July 28
“What an idea — our ability to refrigerate food means that rather than offer that food to someone less fortunate lest it go bad, we can simply wrap it...
Orthodox Quote for July 27
“When we keep Christ’s commandments, we’re not offering anything to Him. Because He has no need of anything and is the Giver of all good things. In fact, we’re...
Orthodox Quote for July 26
“Most moderns mistake the soul for consciousness, and they imagine that at death their consciousness migrates somewhere else (to heaven, etc). And, we do not care very much about...
Orthodox Quote for July 25
“Through sin man himself turns the earthly paradise into an earthly hell. If his soul is polluted with mortal sins he lives in a demonic state: he is fiercely...
Orthodox Quote for July 24
“By “evil day” he refers not to it as naturally evil—a day not being evil by nature…he refers to the one on which a person is enveloped in distress,...
Devotion for Sunday, July 24
Reading of Matthew 28-9:1 on the demons Christ cast from two men which entered the herd of swine who then rushed off a cliff. ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM: “The demons...
Orthodox Quote for July 23
“People commit sins from their youth with words, with their eyes, with their mind, with consent, with deeds. Yet through one sudden shock, one misfortune, one great loss, all...
Orthodox Quote for July 22
“Do we have any answers for skeptics and non-believers? Yes, the brilliant minds of the great Theologians of the Church have provided them. The problem is that most of...