May 28, 2015
“You see very clearly that it is extremely difficult, and without God’s grace and your own fervent prayer and abstinence, it is impossible for you to change for the...
Thursday, May 28
Orthodox Daily Devotional Scripture Reading JOHN 10: 11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. 12 But a hireling, he who is not the...
May 27, 2015
“In the first centuries it was not only the pastors who were tortured, but lay persons as well – men, women, and even children. And it was lay people...
Wednesday, May 27
Orthodox Daily Devotional Scripture Reading JOHN 8: 31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And...
May 26, 2015
“Eternal Memory” is equivalent to saying “may you ever be in God’s #8221; The Church says this prayer so that the deceased “continue” in God’s memory. Because if God...
May 25, 2015
“…one of the hallmarks of our church life is its sacramental materialism. This is a normal outgrowth of our faith in the incarnation, in the invisible God entering human...
Tuesday, May 26
Orthodox Daily Devotional Scripture Reading JOHN 8: 21 Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek Me, and will die in your sin. Where...
Monday, May 25
Orthodox Daily Devotional Scripture Reading JOHN 8: 13 The Pharisees therefore said to Him, “You bear witness of Yourself; Your witness is not true.” 14 Jesus answered and said to them, “Even...
May 24, 2015
“Paul, the other apostles, and innumerable saints after them gave their lives, shed their lives day after day forgetting themselves… They lived for others, they gave as generously as...
May 23, 2015
“If good deeds done according to feelings of the heart brought salvation, then Christ’s coming would have been superfluous… …Such is the natural quality of all bodily podvigs/struggles and...