+  Blessed Lent to All!      I do not call fasting the mere abstinence from meats; but the abstinence from sin.  – St. John Chrysostom “If you have fasting, prayer, almsgiving, temperance, and all other virtues are gathered in you, but you do not have humility all fall away and...

+  Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated? (1 Cor. 6:7).             One may say, “I have been stripped of everything, and do...

+  Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.” (John 9:3) One might ask, “Did the blind man suffer for the glory of God?” Tell me what he did wrong? Rather, I assert that he not only did...