Fr. Ted Bobosh
Whether we are eating or fasting, it is always the time to be generously charitable and hospitable to others. Without hospitality and charity, our fasting from food is vapid and void.
Rating: 8|Votes: 4
A couple’s childlessness of many years, a long-awaited but very difficult pregnancy, emergency delivery, intensive care… And constant prayer. Infant Simeon would not have been born without the help of God, the Mother of God and saints.
Deacon Aaron Taylor
Rating: 6|Votes: 2
St. Nazarius was first and foremost a solitary ascetic and afterwards a father of monks. When he re-established Valaam, he took care to reintroduce all three modes of monastic life: coenobitism, the skete life, and anchoretism. According to his Life, “He began the building of the Great Skete in the woods beyond the Monastery enclosure as well as other sketes, and encouraged anchorites—making himself the first example of eremitic life.” As a “monk’s monk,” St. Nazarius was different from many of the famous elders of subsequent decades.
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
Today, on our preparation journey towards Lent, we have come to the ultimate stage: we are confronted with judgment. If we pay attention to it, next week our spiritual destiny will be in our own hands, because next week is the Sunday of Forgiveness.
Archpriest Valerian Krechetov
Rating: 10|Votes: 4
They asked her, “What did you see? What was revealed to you?” She only answered, “Don’t judge anyone. We are going to be judged very severely. Don’t judge anyone.” Judge not that ye be not judged (Mt. 7:1)—this was written in the Gospels. We should try to fulfill this commandment.