March 1, 7534
On the First Monday of the First Week of the Fast: A Teaching of Saint John Chrysostom The course of the good and beneficial fast has arrived—let us not grieve, nor grow lazy, brothers, nor be negligent concerning the commandments handed down to us by the holy apostles and the holy fathers. For it is…
John 1:43–51 Dear brothers and sisters! Today, during the Divine Liturgy, we heard a reading from the Gospel of John, which recounts how, on His way to Galilee, Jesus Christ met Philip and said unto him: Follow Me (John 1:43). Philip responded to this call and followed Christ. Of his encounter with the Lord, Philip said to…
Dear brothers and sisters! I congratulate you on the first Sunday of Great Lent—the Sunday of Orthodoxy! Fasting is the springtime of the renewal of our souls, a spiritually joyful time in which the radiant Sun—Jesus Christ—manifests His love, melting within us the ice of despondency, negligence, avarice, and idle talk, granting us the spirit…