Love Humility

February 1, 2016 | Instagram, Uncategorized, Wisdom

Spend the day in holiness

February 1, 2016 | Instagram, Uncategorized, Wisdom

The only means by which you can spend the day in perfect holiness, peace, and without sin, is the most sincere, fervent prayer as soon as you rise from sleep in the morning. It will bring Christ into your heart, with the Father and the Holy Ghost… -St. John of Kronstadt #orthodox #orthodoxy #orthodoxchurch #Christian #wisdomofthefathers #stjohnofkronstadt

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Good upbringing for children

February 1, 2016 | Instagram, Uncategorized, Wisdom

Your children will always be sufficiently wealthy if they receive from you a good upbringing that is able to order their moral life and behavior. Thus, strive not to make them rich, but rather to make them pious masters of their passions, rich in virtues. Teach them not to think up illusory needs, reckoning their worth according to worldly standards. Attentively watch their deeds, their acquaintances and their attachments—and do not expect any mercy from God if you do not fulfill this duty. – St. John Chrysostom #orthodox #orthodoxy #orthodoxchurch #christian #wisdomofthefathers #stjohnchrysostom #stsophia #raisingchildrenofgod #family #parenting

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Prayer in the family

January 31, 2016 | Instagram, Uncategorized, Wisdom

Demon of Blasphemy

December 15, 2015 | Uncategorized, Wisdom

When one is beset by the demon of blasphemy the therapy is as follows, ‘Cast the thought aside for it is not of your own mind but the invention and scheme of the devil to whom you must answer thus: This blasphemy is yours, O subtle demons. May it be on your heads and may your injustice smite your arrogance. Your abominations accuse you for you blaspheme against God, for you are proud and apostates. I always bless the Lord and my Savior. When your response is thus, and you do the sign of the Cross, the demons will flee and will vanish suddenly like smoke. You must know that the reason I can’t here, is in the ceramic pithos jar.”

Four Great Saints
Saint Pachomius the Great, of. 76

Broccoli Salad

December 3, 2015 | Fasting Recipes, Uncategorized

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Father Gabriel Goes to Church

November 22, 2015 | Uncategorized

If you cannot view the below video, visit: https://youtu.be/BH_UAfIbR54

First in a series of animated short films featuring, Father Gabriel, an Orthodox Christian Priestmonk, who walks to church and begins the Litancy of Peace.

Wealthy and lacking God

November 4, 2015 | Uncategorized, Wisdom

When it’s not distributed to the poor for the good of our souls and the benefit of our departed ones, wealth is a total disaster. Riches choke the soul, through great anxiety and rapacity.

When we see people who have got everything, who want for nothing, but yet are anxious, worried and sad, we should recognize that they’re lacking God…

» Venerable Païsios the Athonite

Charity

November 4, 2015 | Uncategorized, Wisdom

Despite the fact that virginity, fasting and sleeping on the ground demand greater efforts, there’s nothing so powerful and so capable of extinguishing the fire of our sins as charity.

It’s superior to all else and places those who live it close to the King of the Heavens Himself.

And rightly so.

>Saint John Chrysostom

What’s living within you?

November 2, 2015 | Uncategorized, Wisdom

When the desire for Christ is dominant within you, you remain calm in every sorrow and you know that Christ lives within you more than the world does.

And again, when sickness and the various misfortunes of life throw your mind into turmoil, you should know that your body is living within you, not Christ.

In general, whatever thing is overriding and dominant, that’s what’s living within you. God and His angels rejoice in times of need; the devil and his minions in times of leisure.

You should know that, without temptations, you’re a long way from the path of God and you aren’t treading in the footsteps of the saints.

» Saint Isaac the Syrian