14
July 2025
The mystery of repentance
is the greatest and most blessed mystery, which prepares us perfectly
beforehand for Heaven…There is no sin on earth which is unforgivable for the
person who will repent, and for the God of love Who receives him.
Elder Ephraim of Philotheou
On Prayer
13
July 2025
If through old-established, evil custom, your thoughts wander so that you cannot direct them, turn to God, tell him your weakness, and ask his help with faith.
Francisco de Osuna
If through old-established, evil custom, your thoughts wander so that you cannot direct them, turn to God, tell him your weakness, and ask his help with faith.
Francisco de Osuna
On Holy Scripture
12
July 2025
When we allowed Your Word to depart from our hearts through disobedience, we made ourselves incapable of this goal of creation. But You turned Your Word and heart toward us anew, even shared it with us, or rather gave it to us completely, and have given Yourself in the same, when Your only-begotten Son was born a man, that we might become children of God. A thousand times a thousand tongues of seraphim cannot express this wondrous grace and gracious wonder.
Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg
When we allowed Your Word to depart from our hearts through disobedience, we made ourselves incapable of this goal of creation. But You turned Your Word and heart toward us anew, even shared it with us, or rather gave it to us completely, and have given Yourself in the same, when Your only-begotten Son was born a man, that we might become children of God. A thousand times a thousand tongues of seraphim cannot express this wondrous grace and gracious wonder.
Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg
On Prayer
11
July 2025
Our Lord bade us not to speak much in our prayer, for he knows what we need before we ask for it, since he is the God of all knowledge.
Francisco de Osuna
Our Lord bade us not to speak much in our prayer, for he knows what we need before we ask for it, since he is the God of all knowledge.
Francisco de Osuna
Remember God
10 July 2025
Make
the habit to remember God, not only during your prayers, but at every hour and
minute of the day, for He is everywhere present.
Saint Theophan the Recluse
Continue to Walk
9
July 2025
Don’t philosophize about
your trouble – don’t argue with it. Quite simply, continue to walk straight on.
God would not allow you to be lost while you live according to your resolutions
so as not to lose him. If the whole world turns topsy-turvy, if all around is
darkness and smoke and din, yet God is still with us. So, if we know that God
lives in the darkness and on Mount Sinai which is full of smoke and surrounded
with the roar of thunder and lightning, shall not all be well with us as long
as we remain close to him? So, live wholly in God, and do not fear. Jesus in
his goodness is all ours; let us be all his. Let us cling to him with courage.
Saint Francis de Sales
Our Days are Numbered
8
July 2025
Our days are numbered. Every stroke of the clock reminds us to seek Him Who created time and Himself stands above the measure of time. He alone is able to pluck us out from the ravaging torrent of time… Every stroke of the clock tells us: Be watchful! You now have one hour less until you must cross the threshold into life after death which knows neither days nor hours. Do not be seduced by the momentary sweetness of sin which vanishes like a dream, leaving the soul empty, ailing, anguishing; it steals away precious time and ruins it forever. Do not waste time in useless occupations or idleness. Every one of you has a God-given talent to put to use.
Saint John of Kronstadt
Our days are numbered. Every stroke of the clock reminds us to seek Him Who created time and Himself stands above the measure of time. He alone is able to pluck us out from the ravaging torrent of time… Every stroke of the clock tells us: Be watchful! You now have one hour less until you must cross the threshold into life after death which knows neither days nor hours. Do not be seduced by the momentary sweetness of sin which vanishes like a dream, leaving the soul empty, ailing, anguishing; it steals away precious time and ruins it forever. Do not waste time in useless occupations or idleness. Every one of you has a God-given talent to put to use.
Saint John of Kronstadt
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