3/17/2018
Metropolitan Seraphim (Chichagov)
The imagination can’t unite man with God.
St. Seraphim (Chichagov)
If, according to the word of Christ, in order to become a Christian, we must be born of water and the Spirit, then undoubtedly, in order to remain a Christian throughout our lives, we must also live by the Spirit—live the spiritual life.
Hieromartyr Seraphim (Chichagov)
In those three words, everything is said. In them lies the foundation of our faith, our hope, our love, the Christian life, all of our wisdom, our enlightenment, the Holy Church, sincere prayer, and all that is to come.
Finally, the Divine Sufferer, avoiding His gaze meeting that of His poor, fervently loving Mother, deeply shaken by the Golgotha spectacle, turned His bloodied face to her, seeing His beloved disciple with her, who hadn’t abandoned the Mother of God, pronounced with an affectionate and filial voice, quiet from suffering: Woman behold they son!... Behold thy mother!
Holy Hieromartyr Seraphim (Chichagov)
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Perhaps, beloved ones, some of you might suppose that St. John composed his Ladder exclusively for monks, and not for laypeople, inasmuch as there is nothing in common between your own lives—that is, of fathers and mothers of families and secular young people—and the lives of monks, recluses, desert dwellers and hesychasts?