Here, in this deserted place, far from the hustle and bustle of the world , the Mother of God lit an inextinguishable lamp of prayer.
St. Alexei Mechev
O Cross of the Lord! Direct us all on the path of salvation, establish peace and calm on our land, that we might live a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honor.
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.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
We are not worth the suffering caused to the sinless Son of God. And yet of course that was why He suffered for us, the sinless for the sinful, the innocent for the guilty, the immortal God for mortal and dying men.
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Today the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of one of the early stars in the pleiades of new martyrs and confessors of the Communist yoke, Metropolitan Benjamin (Kazansky) of Petrograd and Gdovsk, together with Archimandrite Sergei, Yuri, and John.
