Alexei Tereshchenko
To rise for prayer before opening the phone, a book, or sitting down to breakfast—that is our spiritual firstfruit.
Vladimir Shishkin
At times, a single text from the Pentecostarion can fill us with Paschal vigor, illumine us with joy, warm the heart.
Priest Tarasiy Borozenets
In consumerist consciousness man is the consumer, God is the service provider, the Church is the company providing these services; faith, the sacraments, and prayers are means.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)
When a person refuses the Divine will, he inevitably becomes a toy in the hands of alien powers.
St. Seraphim (Chichagov)
The holy Church of Christ blesses the memory of all saints, and Christians especially cherish these Myrrh-bearing Women, these happy companions of Christ, who served the Master not only from their substance, but also with the work of their hands; who were devoted to Him with all their hearts.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
Christian authority is built on the foundation of a prior and more fundamental equality: before one is a father, one is a brother. All Christians share a common brotherhood, offering their ultimate submission to Christ and God the Father.
Fr. James Guirguis
With the true revelation of the identity of Jesus, there is a new paradigm, a new set of rules…..a new reality.
Svetlana Rybakova
I remember how difficult the ascent was: the searing heat, as if we had been placed inside a huge oven, the steep rocky path running between the mountain and the precipice, and on top of this the continual thirst.
Igumen Tikhon (Borisov)
We can find very little about the holy Myrrh-Bearing Women in the Gospel pages. But there are the most important things in this “little”: faithfulness and love.
Metropolitan Rastislav of Prešov
God expects our questions. He isn’t afraid of our doubts.
Elena Nasledysheva
Radonitsa is Pascha for the dead. On the days of Holy Pascha, we greet each other with the words: “Christ is Risen!” It is quite natural to say the same words to the departed.
Ariadna Nefedkina
Everybody should experience this very personal meeting with Christ in their lives. After all, the Lord does not avoid our questions: He waits for us, like Thomas, to reach out and touch Him, even if not physically, but with our hearts.
St. Onuphry (Gagalyuk) of Kursk
Yes, the present earthly life is a foretaste of eternal life. Here begins and develops that disposition with which we’ll live eternally.
Hieromartyr Thaddeus (Uspensky)
Despite the dangers from their enemies who mocked and crucified their Master, they hastened to Christ’s Tomb early in the morning; they remained faithful to the One Who had died.
Archpriest Viacheslav Reznikov
Man is born of water and the Spirit unto life eternal. A son of fleshly parents is adopted to the Heavenly Father, Who is Spirit.
If it seems to us that today our life has turned into a “formless mush,” let’s know, that this is not chaos; this is the moment in which our wings are being put together.
The Resurrection of Christ is a triumph of the victory of life over death, light over darkness, and good over evil.
“The word of the angel: ‘Go and proclaim to the world,’ means that we must live in such a way that our life would be a single message: ‘Christ is Risen!’ And so that in looking at you, all people might be able to say: ‘Indeed He is Risen’ because He clearly lives in His followers.”
That is good news indeed for weary modern man. Life is not one long goodbye but offers an encounter with the Lord.
Hieromonk Platon (Kudlasevich)
Holy Pascha is for everyone.
