Category Wisdom from the Fathers

Spirituality, Wisdom from the Fathers

YEARS ARE NOT NEEDED FOR TRUE REPENTANCE AND NOT DAYS BUT ONLY AN INSTANT.

ST. AMBROSE OF OPTINA

October 30, 2021

True Orthodoxy, Wisdom from the Fathers

“Whoever calls himself ‘universal bishop’, or desires this title, is by his pride the precursor to the antichrist.” – St. Gregory the Great

October 18, 2021

Wisdom from the Fathers

“How many pains have you ever taken that you might find one of the Saints who was willing to be your importunate intercessor to the Lord?” St. Basil the Great

October 15, 2021

Saints, Spiritual Works, Spirituality, To Ponder, Wisdom from the Fathers

A PRAYER OF DAILY CONFESSION FOR A PERSON ENTERING ON THE WAY OF SALVATION From the writing of Saint Dimitry, Metropolitan of Rostov.

Having found a silent place and being alone, sit down and meditate on your life, recall to mind all sins that you have committed from your youth on, those you have confessed, and those left unconfessed. Having brought back to…

October 3, 2021

Spiritual Works, Spirituality, To Ponder, Wisdom from the Fathers

“Be crucified, but do not crucify others.” -St. Isaac the Syrian

October 2, 2021

True Orthodoxy, Wisdom from the Fathers

“The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men” – St. Isaac the Syrian

October 1, 2021

Feasts, Sermons, Wisdom from the Fathers

SERMON ON THE NATIVITY OF THE VIRGIN MARY -St. Andrew, Archbishop of Crete

Our father among the saints Andrew of Crete was Archbishop of Crete at the end of the 7th century and the beginning of the 8th. He was a true luminary of the Church, a great hierarch—a theologian, teacher, and hymnographer,…