St. Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky), Archbishop of Crimea
In order to overcome all the passions without exception, it is necessary to learn abstinence.
Igumen Tikhon (Borisov)
Lent is an amazing opportunity for each one of us, for each member of the Church, to escape from the deadening vanity, running around, chattering, and the endless pursuit of some dubious “values”.
Bishop Mitrophan (Znosko-Borovsky)
The Holy Church warns us of the terrible power of sin, and calls us who stand before the doors opening to the Holy Forty Days, to force ourselves and tear ourselves away from the maelstrom of everyday vanity.
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
We have to understand that God acts outside of time, and the events of Revelation don’t relate only to the end times.
Only the people of God, the saints, can receive revelations from God, and only they can interpret them, because a revelation, words from God, is given from God, from the Holy Spirit.
Nun Natalia (Kaverzneva)
It is the same effect when we encounter injustice against us—it destroys the roots of passions in us, tearing us away from our attachment to earthly things.
Archpriest Alexander Saltykov
Maslenitsa—Cheesefare Week—has begun. During this time, both fasting and the absence of fasting, festivity and thoughts of death, resurrection, and the Last Judgment are paradoxically united.
Fr. James Guirguis
When we are in the presence of God nothing can help us but the love we have acquired and shown to others.
The Gospel calls to purity and a pious life us who await the “day of the Lord”.
Archpriest Andrei Chizhenko
Before Meatfare Sunday, the Sunday of the Last Judgment, the Holy Church has established a universal Ancestors' Meatfare Saturday, on which we perform memorial services for all Orthodox Christians who have fallen asleep from the beginning until now.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)
The hardest thing is to preserve love in ourselves to the very death.
Protosinghel Galaction (Dominte)
Our whole life is steps towards the Kingdom of God. Here we must pass an exam, and there, in the Kingdom of God, our true life will begin.
Priest Tarasiy Borozenets
“Super Jump” is not just a commercial pyramid selling a dubious method of personal success, but a networked neo-pagan sect with its own doctrine and cult practice.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
The Prophet Haggai reminds us that there is a day to be small and that a wise heart will leave questions of numbers, growth, and influence in the hands of God.
The whole universe of God’s mercy and forgiveness is open wide to receive those who will repent and return.
The main thing you should look for is that your father-confessor is the personality who will change you.
Fr. Charalampos Papadopoulos
A Church person is someone who feels like a part of the Body of Christ, who participates in Holy Communion, in the Sacraments of the Church, and wants Christ to become the center of his life.
Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh
How simple and how restrained are the words in which the Gospel describes his cruel rejection of his father, and prepares his departure into the far, the strange country! “Father, give me my part of thy inheritance!” Do these words not mean, “Father, I can’t wait until your death! You are still strong, and I am young; it is now that I want to reap the fruits of thy life, of thy labors; later they will be stale.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and Melitopol
Apostle Peter teaches us that we should consider God’s tarrying as our salvation.
A genuine meeting with God should transform us so that we can become different, if we have really found Him.