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An Orthodox English Saint
W. J. Lillie
9 March 2020
Pall Mall Gazette. 24 July 1885. p. 6.
Great interest has, it is said, been caused at Folkestone and the neighborhood by the discovery in the parish church of what are believed to be the remains of ... 
‘Lord, you have appointed repentance for me..’
9 March 2020
'Lord, you have appointed repentance for me, the sinner, wishing in your boundless mercy to save me, unworthy though I am. I fall before you and pray: Humble my soul through fasting, for I have fled...
The Lord will envelop you
Desert Fathers
8 March 2020
Guard your mouth, practice the Jesus prayer, show restraint and the Lord will envelop you with the priceless gift of His love....
Homily on the 1st Sunday in Lent (Part 2)
Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea
8 March 2020
And today, the heretics are telling us precisely the same thing. They have the nerve to call our icons idols and us idolaters. They have cheek for anything. Let me tell you about an incident that happ...
‘Seeing clearly the sin that is in me..’
8 March 2020
'Seeing clearly the sin that is in me, the scheming enemy hastens to act with me in sin. For he truly rejoices in my perdition. But grant me amendment of my life, I pray you, Savior, that I may conf...
It’s genuine and true
Elder Filotheos Zervakos
7 March 2020
The attribute of true repentance is profound awareness, contrition, and sorrow in the heart which mourns not because it will go to hell but because it has saddened and angered through sin such a kin...
Repent now, before Death
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
7 March 2020
Repent before death closes the door of your life and opens the door of the Judgment. Repent before death, and, because you don’t know the time of your death, repent today, this instant and don’t repea...
‘Fasting in the body, let us also fast in the spirit..’
7 March 2020
'Fasting in the body, let us also fast in the spirit, loosing the bonds of injustice. Let us abandon agreements made under duress. Let us break all unjust commitments. Let us give bread to the hungr...
Homily on the 1st Sunday in Lent (Part 1)
Saint Luke the Physician, Archbishop of the Crimea
7 March 2020
On the first Sunday of Great Lent, our Holy Church celebrates the triumph of Orthodoxy, the right belief, which trampled down all the heresies and has since become established for ever. This is why th...
Difficult prey
Saint Basil the Great
6 March 2020
The word of truth is a difficult prey because it easily escapes those who aren’t paying attention, because the Spirit ordained that it should be short and swift. This is so that much can be expresse...
