Priest Nicholai Bulgakov
Rating: 8,5|Votes: 6
Fasting is a time of purification, repentance; a time that helps us leave this vain world in which we live from day to day without often thinking about what is most important. Time goes by and we are in the same place; the soul has not changed. So it would be good for us to make friends with fasting. After all, it gives us the most important thing—spiritual transformation.
Priest Dimitry Shishkin
Rating: 10|Votes: 5
The main joy of the fast, strange as it sounds, consists in the possibility for our change and transformation. It is in the possibility to become something different.
Dmitry Lapa
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 23
Before he had sailed three miles he suddenly saw a small black cloud that was swiftly approaching from the Welsh coast. Soon the cloud drew near and the holy man to his great astonishment realized that these were the bees from all the beehives of the Mynyw Monastery. The insects began impetuously and joyfully descending onto the boat of their master.
Deacon Valery Dukhanin
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
The Fast is always the possibility to become better, to conquer ourselves, to conquer our bad habits, organize ourselves for spiritual life. If the time of the fast did not come, we would just go on spinning like hamster in its wheel in our earthly affairs and rarely remember any kind of repentance.
Fr. Barnabas Powell
Rating: 6|Votes: 1
All too often it’s easy to miss the warnings in my life because my life, my soul, my mind is flooded with my own “voice.” The selfish wants drown out that “still, small voice” that is screaming at me that I am going down a wrong path.