Oxygen Or Salad?

“There was a doctor who was treating a patient recently in the hospital who was on supplemental oxygen. This means that whatever he was doing, there was a device that he had to use to give him every essential life sustaining breath. If he decided to take a vacation for...

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"Lord Don't Have Mercy on Me"

Today we commemorate the Departure of Fr. Eustathius known as Abune Ewostatiewos! When anointed as a deacon, Jesus Christ appeared and said unto him, “O my beloved Eustathius, I have chosen you from your mother’s womb, and appointed you to become a teacher of nations from Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Armenia...

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Path to Perfection?

Path to perfection? . “In addition to training your mind to learn, you should also control your will, so as not to let it lean towards your own desires, but to lead it to be perfectly as one with the will of God. To be firmly grounded, we must endure...

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Repentance: A New Day

“Through repentance the filth of our foul actions is washed away. After this, we participate in the Holy Spirit, not automatically, but according to the faith, humility and inner disposition of the repentance in which our soul is engaged. For this reason it is good to repent each day as...

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