Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Nameday celebration ( Saint Symeon the New Theologian )

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When you celebrate your nameday, do so with the aim of obtaining mercy from God through the intercessions of your Saint.  Saint Sy...
Sunday, May 6, 2018

On Amassing Wealth For Old Age While Neglecting the Wealth of Grace ( St. Nikolai Velimirovich )

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In ignorance, many people labor more to avoid suffering in old age and terminal illness than to avoid the torments of hell in the life a...
Friday, May 4, 2018

Lay not up Treasures on Earth, but in Heaven where Nothing is Lost ( St. John Maximovitch )

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The Lord speaks to all people of all times and races, and tells them something clear and well-known. Today a person is alive, but tomo...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

How To Set Up An Icon Corner at Home

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Quantity and quality are two different things. It would be naive to assume that the more sacred images there are in an Orthodox Christ...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride of the heart... ( St. Anthony the Great )

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Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride of t...
Monday, April 23, 2018

When vigilance is absent... ( St. Paisios )

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When vigilance is absent, absent also are our minds from our heads (they are stolen by the devil), and we remain with our bodies alone, ...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

Perfect love for God... ( St.Seraphim of Sarov )

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He who has acquired perfect love for God goes through this life as if he did not exist. For he considers himself a stranger to all tha...
Saturday, April 14, 2018

The Cross Preserves the Universe ( St. John Maximovitch )

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In the Prophet Ezekiel (9:6), it is said that when the Angel of the Lord was sent to punish and destroy the sinning people, it was told ...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

How mistaken are those people who seek happiness outside of themselves... ( St. Nektarios of Aegina )

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How mistaken are those people who seek happiness outside of themselves, in foreign lands and journeys, in riches and glory, in great pos...
Sunday, April 8, 2018

The path of virtue is a path of effort and toil: ( Saint Nektarios of Egina )

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The path of virtue is a path of effort and toil:  "Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, leadeth unto life, and few the...