Category Spirituality

Struggling Against Evil by Archbishop Averky

While struggling resolutely against the most minute manifestations of evil and sin in our own souls, let us not fear to uncover and point out evil everywhere where it is to be found in modern life-not from pride and self-love,…

Public Confessions in Kronstadt

From Eyewitness Testimony by Father Anatoly Trepatschko In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Brothers and sisters! Having left the altar, from eyewitness accounts, Father John stood on the ambo without his…

OF BODILY AND SPIRITUAL LABOURS

Our soul is in union with the body by creation; it is in dependence on it on account of the fall. It is infected with sinful diseases, passions, on account of bodily actions; passions are destroyed in it, good habits, virtues are implanted in it by means of bodily actions.

“Of course, God does not need our sinful prayers… ― The Way of a Pilgrim

“Of course, God does not need our sinful prayers, but still, in His love for us He likes us to pray. And it is not only that holy prayer which the Holy Spirit Himself helps us to offer and arouses in us that is pleasing to Him, for He asks that of us...but every intention, every impulse, even every thought which is directed to His glory and our own salvation is of value in His sight”
― The Way of a Pilgrim