8/14/2011
Purity is a sign of the soul’s health and a source of spiritual joy.
If there had been no Cross, Life would not have been nailed to the tree. And if Life had not been nailed to the tree, then from His side would not have flowed the streams of immortality—blood and water that cleanse the world.
St. Cyprian of Carthage
That it was predicted before that the world would hate us, and that it would stir up persecutions against us, and that no new thing is happening to the Christians—for from the beginning of the world the good have suffered, and the righteous have been oppressed and slain by the unrighteous.
