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On behalf of the priests, servants, and all the congregation, we wish you a blessed and fruitful Great Holy Fast this year. To help ensure these holy days are fruitful and beneficial, we offer the following spiritual resources from around the Internet. Articles Great Lent: Our Journey to meet our Heavenly Bridegroom by St. John Chrysostom […]
On the second Sunday of Kiahk, we celebrate the Annunciation of the Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ to the Holy Virgin Mary. As we rejoice in the news of our Lord’s glorious Birth, we cannot underestimate the value and importance of the Holy Theotokos St. Mary. She was the person for whom all generations […]
I also always entreat you, and do not cease entreating you, not only to pay attention here to what I say, but also when you are at home, to persevere continually in reading the divine Scriptures. When I have been with each of you in private, I have not stopped giving you the same advice. Do not let […]
Why are childhood impressions so important? Why is it essential to fill a child’s mind and soul with light and goodness, starting from the very earliest stages of its life? In childhood we find a natural gift for faith, simplicity, gentleness, a capacity for tenderness, compassion, imagination, an absence of cruelty and hardness. Now this is precisely the […]
Who can comprehend and acknowledge that we are saved by grace — that we are saved by God’s grace, and not by our merits and works? Who can comprehend and acknowledge that? Only he who has comprehended and seen the bottomless pit of death and corruption in which man is engulfed by sin, and has […]
I have read with compassion and sympathy the list of your spiritual tribulations, and have suffered with you. And yet, I believe in the fundamental goodness of your soul. The fact is, it is very difficult to live according to conscience, and it is very easy to live in the same way as everybody else, just […]
“But the people,” you say, “hold high account of him.” And what is this? For the people surely is not God, to Whom he is to render account. So in naming the people, you are speaking of nothing else than of other breakers, rocks, shoals, and sunken ridges. For to be in favor with the […]
Love for God can not be taught. No one taught us to enjoy the light nor to want life, nor anyone else taught us to love our parents or those who raised us. Similarly or rather much more, knowledge of divine love does not come from outside. But in the same time when man was […]
The veneration of the relics of the martyrs and saints originates from Divine Revelation through the Holy Scriptures. In the Old Testament, for example, God made the holy relics of the righteous work miracles such as the relics of Elisha which resurrected a man from the dead. From that time, the tomb and bones of the […]
When the time comes, and especially the time put aside for God and His temple, a feast day or the hour of Divine Services, hurry to tear yourself away from business and worldly cares and voluntarily and zealously offer yourself to God in His church. When you enter the church bring to mind the promise of […]