Ancient Christian Wisdom“Every person who insults us, wrongs us, slanders us, who wrongs us in any way, is a brother who fell into the hands of the worker of evil, the devil. When we challenge this brother we must feel great sorrow for him, sympathiz...
Ancient Christian Wisdom“Life without Christ is not life. That’s the way it is…. If you don’t see Christ in everything you do, you are without Christ.”~ St. Porphyrios, Precious Vessels of the Holy Spirit🎥 Latest Videos:Paul Kingsnorth's Against The...
Ancient Christian Wisdom“The martyrs suffered greatly when they were tormented. They suffered in the same way as any normal person would have suffered, with the difference that they were continually united to Christ through prayer and partook of a fo...
Ancient Christian Wisdom “This, in practical terms is, the slow, necessary, sometimes boring work to which I suspect people in our place and time are being called: to build new things out on the margins. Not to exhaust our souls engaging in a daily w...
Ancient Christian Wisdom"Married and unmarried priests, let us not forget that we are representatives of the gentle and humble-hearted Jesus. We were called to progress in humility and not to quarrel in the holy altar for priority of honor.”~ Elder E...
Ancient Christian Wisdom"Our country is covered with the ice of materialism and of atheism, and we are all called to take part in their defeat. Only when this ice dissipates will we be able to find and to enjoy once again that true earth which the ap...
Ancient Christian Wisdom"It is possible for happiness to exist [in marriage,] but with one presupposition: the spouses must have acquired spiritual wealth, loving God and keeping His commandments. In this way they will end up truly loving one another...
Orthodox Wisdom Newsletter"The goal of reading is the application, in our lives, of what we read. Not to learn it by heart, but to take it to heart. Not to practice using our tongues, but to be able to receive the tongues of fire and to live the myst...
Orthodox Wisdom Newsletter"[God allows virtuous people to suffer] so that they might be purified from even the slightest traces of their passions and so that they might receive an even greater crown in Heaven. Furthermore, as He allowed His beloved S...
Orthodox Wisdom Newsletter"Prayer offered without attention and nepsis is a waste of time, it is struggle without reward. We must set up circumspection as an unsleeping guard of all our senses, internal and external. For without attention, the mind a...