12/13/2020
Archpriest Gregory Dyachenko
For the good of their children, parents are ready to sacrifice not only their property, but their health and even their lives. They have such strong love for their children, a love that is willing to make any sacrifice for the sake of their children’s temporal and eternal happiness.
The holy apostle Andrew is the “example of a Christian’s spiritual joy”. At the sight of the terrible instrument of his torturous death—the cross—he not only did not fall into despondency or fear, but to the contrary greatly rejoiced that through the cross he can come to his Lord, into His blessed Kingdom.