Our Journey

4 September 2025

 

Our Lord’s words teach us that though we labor among the many distractions of this world, we should have but one goal. For we are but travelers on a journey without as yet a fixed abode; we are on our way, not yet in our native land; we are in a state of longing, not yet of enjoyment. But let us continue on our way, and continue without sloth or respite, so that we may ultimately arrive at our destination.

 

        Saint Augustine

On Repentance

3 September 2025

 

To repent means both to lament the sins we have committed, and to refrain from the sins we lament.

 

        St. Gregory the Great

Body and Soul

31 August 2025

 

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

 

        Saint Augustine

The Body and Blood of Christ

25 August 2025

 

But it is not only the martyrs who share in his passion by their glorious courage! The same is true, by faith, of all who are born again in Baptism. That is why we are to celebrate the Lord’s paschal sacrifice with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. The leaven of our former malice is thrown out, and a new creature is filled and inebriated with the Lord himself. For the effect of our sharing in the body and blood of Christ is to change us into what we received. As we have died with him, and have been buried and raised to life with him, so we bear him within us, both in body and in spirit, in everything we do. 

 

        St. Leo the Great

Cheerful Giving

25 August 2025

 

If you give something to one in need, let the cheerfulness of your face precede your gift, and comfort his sorrow with kind words. When you do this, by your gift the gladness of his mind surpasses even the needs of his body.

 

        Saint Isaac of Syria

Spiritual Life

24 August 2025

 

Spiritual life does not mean being in the clouds while saying the Jesus Prayer or going through the various motions. It means discovering the laws of this spiritual life as they apply to one’s own position, one’s situation. This comes over the years by attentive reading of the Holy Fathers with a notebook, writing down those passages which seem most significant to us, studying them, finding how they apply to us, and, if need be, revising earlier views of them as we get a little deeper into them, finding what one Father says about something, what a second Father says about the same thing, and so on.

 

        Seraphim Rose

The Mystery of Repentance

21 August 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