October 9, 2015
“The true beginning of prayer is warmth of the heart, which scorches the passions and fills the soul with joy and gladness, strengthening the heart with an unshakable love...
Saturday, October 10
LUKE 4 38 Now He arose from the synagogue and entered Simon’s house. But Simon’s wife’s mother was sick with a high fever, and they made request of Him concerning...
October 9, 2015
“When a person’s heart is free of the passions, it belongs to God and is easy on the soul, because with God, there is nothing to fear. God is...
Friday, October 9
LUKE 4 23 He said to them, “You will surely say this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in Your...
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...