October 7, 2015
“If then thy sin is so heavy that by thy penitential tears thou canst not thyself wash it out, let the mother Church weep for thee, the multitude standing...
October 7, 2015
“The Orthodox Church declares that communion with the Incarnate Word is not an object of mental processes and thinking, but the result of an experiential relationship and life. Our...
Thursday, October 8
LUKE 4 14 Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region. 15 And He taught in their...
October 7, 2015
“Plainly instructing us, that we ought never to account ourselves sufficiently righteous, but always desire a daily increase in righteousness, to the perfect fulness of which the Psalmist shews...
Wednesday, October 7
LUKE 4 Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2 being tempted for forty days by...
October 6, 2015
“When someone has a vice we should try to bombard him with rays of love and compassion that he may be cured and freed. These things are achieved only through...
October 6, 2015
“Again come, that fixing our mind intently upon the Evangelic Scriptures, we may behold the beauty of the truth. Come let us direct the penetrating and accurate eyes of the...
Tuesday, October 6
Luke 3: 12 Then tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?”13 And he said to them, “Collect no more than what is appointed...
October 5, 2015
“A monk who wants to make progress must do accounting daily – – just as a merchant does at the end of every day to see how much he...
October 5, 2015
“But if we may learn the interpretation of the Apostles’ names, know that Peter means, “loosening or knowing;” Andrew, “glorious power,” or “answering;” but James, “apostle of grief;” John,...