“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...
Imagine taking countless showers and still emerging from them filthy. Imagine spending tons of money on body wash, body scrub, etc., and never being able to remove any dirt off of yourself. Imagine walking around with an unforgivable reek that has only been masked by body spray. This is the...
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...
What is repentance? And how is it different from Confession? As sin is separation from God, repentance then is returning to God.* God says“: Return to me, and I will return to you” (Mal 3:7). When the prodigal son repented, he returned to his father (Luke 15:18-20). True repentance is...
“Christ often comes and knocks at your door, and you invite him to sit in the living room of your soul. Then absorbed in your own business you forget the Great Visitor. He waits for you to appear and when you are too long in returning, he gets up and...
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...
“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...
"If you do not feel like praying, you have to force yourself. The Holy Fathers say that prayer with force is higher than prayer unforced. The Kingdom of Heaven is take by force (Matt 11:12) -St. Ambrose of Optina" Prayer Train yourself to pray for the sake of praying: Saint...