On the Friday of the Sixth Week of Lent: A teaching by John Chrysostom on Repentance, and on How Sins Are Forgiven. Therefore, considering this, let us never despise anyone, and never, when we sin, fall into despair, nor let us become sluggish in returning once again. Rather, when we sin, let us offer contrite…
On Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent: A Teaching of St. Ephrem on Judgment and Repentance Come, all of you, brothers, both small and great, and listen to my humble teaching, for I speak to you for your benefit. Beloved ones, the great and dreadful day is drawing near, yet we remain careless, unwilling…
St. Amphilochius of Iconium Why is it, O sons of truth, that though you stand here in the Holy and Catholic Church, you cease not from sorrowing? If there be some reason for this, tell me, disclose it to me as beloved children to a father full of love, that you might receive comfort thereby….
By I.I. Alekseev Thousands of great and radiant lights burn before us, illuminating and warming with the rays of their gracious light the souls opened to them. Our earthly life, as one venerable father says, is a race toward heaven, an ascent up the great mountain of virtue. It is up to us to make…
By Andrey Denisov “Repent ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.” These words are written in the Holy Gospel. Just as, after a dark and gloomy night, the sweet light of day shines forth, and after a blizzard in the dead of winter comes a fragrant stillness that brings comfort to living creatures…