When you pass beside a hospital make the sign of the Cross three times. Once for the patients. Once for their relatives and once for yourself because you aren't there.
Saint Paisios the Ammonite
Rule for Everyday Life
25 November 2025
Here is the rule for everyday life. Do not do anything which you cannot offer to God.
St. John Vianney
Spiritual Peace
24 November 2025
It is impossible to keep spiritual peace if we do not take care of the mind, that is if we do not drive out thoughts that are displeasing to God and, on the contrary, keep thoughts which are pleasing to God. It is necessary to look into the heart with mind and see what is done there. Is it peaceful or not? If not, then find out in what you have sinned.
Silouan the Athonite
Path to Happiness
23 November 2025
How mistaken are those people who seek happiness outside of themselves … Happiness is found within ourselves, and blessed is the man who has understood this. Happiness is a pure heart, for such a heart becomes the throne of God. Thus says Christ of those who have pure hearts: 'I will visit them and will walk in them, and I will be a God to them, and they will be my people.' (2 Cor. 6:16) What can be lacking to them? Nothing, nothing at all! For they have the greatest good in their hearts: God Himself!
St. Nektarios of Aegina
Helping People in Need
22 November 2025
Do not be upset when people only remember you when they need you. Feel privileged that you are like a candle that comes to their mind during their most darkest hours.
St. Nektarios of Aegina
Grace
21 November 2025
The church must be prepared to see that the end times begin with the death and resurrection of Jesus. After this beginning of the end, God’s grace will no longer come through animal sacrifice at the stone temple. Rather, his grace will come through what the Lord has instituted to be the worship life of the church: catechesis, Baptism, Lord’s Supper. This font of the church’s life prepares the people of God for the parousia, which could come at any time.
Arthur A. Just, Jr
Be Reconciled
20 November 2025
We are often indifferent to our brethren who are distressed or upset, on the grounds that they are in this state through no fault of ours. The Doctor of souls, however, wishing to root out the soul's excuses from the heart, tells us to leave our gift and to be reconciled not only if we happen to be upset by our brother, but also if he is upset by us, whether justly or unjustly; only when we have healed the breach through our apology should we offer our gift.
St. John Cassian
Living Rightly in Faith
19 November 2025
At the time of judgment, those who have lived rightly will be rewarded with eternal blessings, not on the basis of human opinion, but in accordance with the true nature of their life. May all of us attain these blessings through the grace and love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Saint Neilos the Ascetic
Time and Salvation
17 November 2025
Everyone is born at the time that is best suited for his salvation.
St. Ambrose of Optina
Our Soul
12 November 2025
When people are empty of Christ, a thousand and one other things come and fill them up: jealousies, hatreds, boredom, melancholy, resentment, a worldly outlook, worldly pleasures. Try to fill your soul with Christ so that it’s not empty.
St. Porphyrios
Guard Your Heart
11 November 2025
Be sure to guard in your heart the joy of the Holy Spirit, and do not allow the evil one to pour out his bitterness. Beware! Beware, lest the Paradise that exists in you turns into hell.
St Nectarios of Aegina
On Prayer
9 November 2025
You can set up an altar to God in your minds, by means of prayer. And so it is fitting, to pray at your trade, on a journey, standing at a counter or sitting at your handcraft.
St John Chrysostom
On Death
5 November 2025
Even death is afraid to approach the one who fears God, and then only comes to him when told to separate his soul from his body.
Saint Ephraim the Syrian
Condemning Others
2 November 2025
We cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kindles joy in the heart of one who receives. All condemnation is from the devil. Never condemn each other, not even those whom you catch committing an evil deed. We condemn others only because we shun knowing ourselves. When we gaze at our own failings, we see such a morass of filth that nothing in another can equal it. That is why we turn away, and make much of the faults of others. Keep away from the spilling of speech. Instead of condemning others, strive to reach inner peace. Keep silent, refrain from judgement. This will raise you above the deadly arrows of slander, insult, outrage, and will shield your glowing hearts against the evil that creeps around.
St. Seraphim of Sarov
Spiritual Warfare
1 November 2025
Life is spiritual warfare. If you're not fighting, you're losing.
St. Kosmas the Aetolian
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