Wisdom from the Fathers

On the Deadening of the Human Spirit: A Sermon on the Sunday of the Myrrh-bearing Women By St. Ignatius Brianchaninov (+1867)

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Recollect the Fall of the Strong…

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A Priceless Treasure

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St. Philaret of New York and the HEART

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A US man has become the first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig....

DE WERELD IS GEK

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door aartsbisschop Averky "Er komt een tijd dat mensen zich als gekken gaan gedragen, en tegen hem die dat niet...

“All the teachers of the Church, all the Councils, and all the Divine Scriptures exhort us to flee those who uphold other doctrines and to separate from communion with them”

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-St. Mark of Ephesus

“Humility collects the soul into a single point by the power of silence. A truly humble man has no desire to be known or admired by others but wishes to plunge from himself into himself, to become nothing, as if he had never been born. When he is completely hidden to himself in himself, he is completely with God”

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Acts 1: 3-4 St. John Chrysostom

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Acts 1:3 To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them...

In love did God bring the world into existence: in love is God going to bring it to that wondrous transformed state, and in love will the world be swallowed up in the great mystery of the One who has preformed all these things; in love will the whole course of the governance of creation be finally comprised. -St. Isaac the Syrian

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“Brethren and fathers, God, who fashioned us and brought us out of non-existence into being, has placed us in this life as in a schoolroom to learn to the Gospel of His kingdom.”

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— St. Theodore the Studite t.