8 October 2025
With your worries, you give weapons to Satan.
Martin Luther
On Repentance
6 October 2025
Be ashamed when you sin. Do not be ashamed when you repent. [...] Sin is a wound; repentance is a medicine.
Saint John Chrysostom
On Preaching
5 October 2025
I admonish and exhort those brothers that when they preach their language be well-considered and chaste for the benefit and edification of the people, announcing to them vices and virtues, punishment and glory, with brevity, because out Lord when on earth kept his word brief.
Saint Francis of Assisi
On Marriage
3 October 2025
We don't get married to live happily ever after, to have children, to haveome. No, the main point is to enter the Kingdom of God together, which means that I am ready at any time to pay any price, to make any sacrifice and to endure any difficulty in marriage. Therefore, you cannot break off your marriage at the first difficulty that appears, or even if the difficulty continues, but it must be preserved... Marriage must rest and be built on this foundation, and that the mutual bond is built and strengthened on the joint march of the spouses to the Kingdom of God. This means that one must support the other, and both will move forward together towards the Kingdom of God.
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
The Divine Scriptures
29 September 2025
I desire and exhort my brethren to show all possible respect to the Divine Scriptures wherever they see them, and if they should be found in any improper place, or scattered about in a disrespectful manner, let them collect and put them in a becoming place as far as possible, in order to show reverence to the words of the Lord. For many things are sanctified by the Word of God, and the mystery of the Adorable Sacrament of the Altar is accomplished by the power of the words of Jesus Christ.
Saint Francis of Assisi
The Baptismal Font
26 September 2025
The placement of the font logically follows the theological principle that it is well-placed when it meets the needs of the rite, and indicates the nature of baptism as ‘entry’ to the Church as celebrated by the whole Christian community.
Denis R. McNamara
On Unhappiness
21 September 2025
If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
Anthony de Mello
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