July 29, 2015
Virginmartyr Seraphima of Antioch: this young lady immediately answered the summons to trial for the crime of being a Christian. How often does God ‘summon’ us through a ‘quiet...
July 29, 2015
“Impurity is also twofold: physical and mental. By mental are impure thoughts, impure looks, rancor, deceit and the like, and the bodily filth are: adultery, fornication…. He wants us to...
Wednesday, July 29
MATTHEW 20 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 Now when he had agreed...
July 28, 2015
St. Paul of Xeropotamou: we often think that becoming a monastic was easier in the past when most people did not have much materially and so there was not that...
July 28, 2015
“Life is a great experimental science. Nothing is more difficult than to pass through this science, this narrow way, and these narrow gates. And those who have not learned,...
Tuesday, July 28
MATTHEW 19 23 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 And again...
July 27, 2015
“…nearly the whole of the Gospel narrative, and nearly the whole of our own lives in this world, is one example after another of the abundant mercy and grace...
July 27, 2015
Greatmartyr Panteleimon: St. Panteleimon was a physician who healed more through prayer than physical practice. He lived and died during the last great persecution of Christians in the pagan...
Monday, July 27
MATTHEW 19 23 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. 24 And again...
July 26, 2015
“Ultimately, physical illnesses or the death of a loved one are opportunities to reflect upon the brevity of earthly life and ponder the reality that we are sojourners in...