For as Long as We are Sheep
For so long as we are sheep, we conquer: though ten thousand wolves prowl around, we overcome and prevail. But if we become wolves, we are worsted, for the help of our Shepherd departs from us: for He feeds not…
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I shall sooner agree to die than to apostatize in any way from the true Faith and thereby suffer torments of conscience.
St. Maximos the Confessor “When all the people in Babylon were worshiping the golden idol, the Three Holy Children did not condemn anyone to perdition. They did not concern themselves with the doings of others, but took care only for…
If Someone Slanders You
A brother asked the Abba Barsanuphius, “Elder if I learn that someone says evil about me, what should I do?” The Elder answered, “Get up immediately and say a prayer firstly for him and then for yourself saying, “Lord Jesus…
Kindling a Confession of Faith
St. Theodore the Studite “Your courageous seeking out of the word of truth is a firm-making of the Church under the heavens and your zeal kindles in the fervid confession of our Faith forever all of the world .” (Letter…
Leave Thy Homeland!
St. Theophan the Recluse The Lord had said unto Abraham: Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee (Gen. 12:1). This is an explicit image…
The Church is a Dye Shop – St. John Chrysostom
The Church is a dye shop. If you leave without being dyed at all, what is the benefit of having gone? I beg of you, be careful then, that you enter with consciousness and the fear of God and depart…
Do not give in, endure, go forward courageously, saying to yourself: I will not give in even unto death, and I will go bravely wherever the Lord calls me, with the spirit of repentance which now acts in me.
St. Theophan the Recluse When Moses and Aaron began to intercede before Pharaoh to let their people go, the answer to this was increased work for oppressed Israelites, to the point that they raised an outcry against their intercessors: ye…
Reveal Your Shame for it to be Washed
The Lord scorneth the scorners: but He giveth grace unto the lowly (Prov. 3:34). Particularly remember these words when you go to confession. Nothing like pride binds your tongue to keep it from saying, “I am a sinner.” Humble yourself…
Saint Macarius the Great, St Seraphim of Sarov and the Aim of Our Christian Life
by Reader Timothy Wakefield In the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Saint Seraphim of Sarov, in his now-famous interview with N.A. Motovilov, revealed a ‘lost’ teaching of the Orthodox Church. In…
The Lord Did Not Say, “Do Not Work, Do Not Eat, Do Not Drink,” but Rather, Let Not Your Heart Be Weighed Down With This
by St. Theophan the Recluse [Heb. 7:1-6; Luke 21:28-33] And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.…