Denis Akhalashvili
In my school years every summer I went to grandfather Misha (a diminutive form of the name Michael) and grandmother Tamara in Digomi, Georgia, where they had a big house in which the first two years of my life passed.
Fr. John Whiteford
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
It is the handwriting of the decree that was against us, i.e. the righteous sentence of God due to us for our sins which are blotted out, and nailed to the Cross. By extrapolation, some texts speak of it more generally as the debt of our sin, but this is focusing on the penalty of the sentence against us.
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
Rating: 8,4|Votes: 7
The feminine principle has great meaning in creation. This is manifested on all levels of human existence, both personal and societal. A woman acts in a very special way: she is like a filter that cleanses from evil. Woman’s nature is God’s creation.
Let us throw off forever this shameful fear and apathy and truly follow Christ in the example of the Myrrh-bearing Women. Let us leave from the fearful shadows and locked rooms and come out to meet Christ. If we do, we will find, like the Myrrh-bearing Women did, all of our fears banished, the stone rolled away and we will behold the bright and wondrous sepulcher of Christ.
Rating: 8,2|Votes: 9
It is time that Orthodox women became more closely acquainted with this exemplar of womanly virtues, whose prayers are especially to be invoked by those with wayward children and by wives desirous of sanctifying their unbelieving husbands.