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The care of our soul, dearly beloved, is very much like earthly cultivation. Just as in land which is tilled, some things are torn out, and others are completely uprooted so that which is good may be sown, this should also be the case in our soul. Vices should be uprooted and virtues planted; what is harmful should be torn out and what is useful inserted. Pride should be torn out, humility planted; avarice thrown away, mercy kept; dissipation despised, chastity loved. Just as you cannot plant good things in your land unless you remove what is evil, so you cannot plant the holy shoots of virtues in your soul unless you tear out the thorns and thistles of vice. – St. Caesarius of Arles
After having given us these seeds which He cast into our hearts, the Lord comes to look for the fruits and says, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another.” Although He wished to stir up our souls to keep this commandment, the Lord did not require prodigies or unprecedented miracles to be done by His disciples as proof of their fidelity, although He had given them in the Spirit the power to perform them. But what did He say to them? “By this all will know that You are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” He combines these two commandments in such a way as to assign to Himself the benefits we give to our neighbor. “For I was hungry,” He says, “and you gave Me food.” And He adds, “As you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.” Thus, by means of the first commandment, it is possible to keep the second, and by the second commandment to go back to the first; by loving the Lord to love also our neighbor, for “He who loves Me,” says the Lord, “will keep My commandments,” and “My commandment is that you should love one another as I have loved you.” – St. Basil the Great
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This Week’s Schedule:
- Monday:
- Midnight Praises: 8:00-9:30pm
- Tuesday:
- Tuesday: 7:15-8:30pm
- Wednesday:
- Liturgy: 8:30-10:30am
- Thursday:
- Liturgy: 8:00-10:00am
- GYP Meeting: 7:00-8:00
- Friday:
- Liturgy: 8:00-10:00am
- Sports Activities: 6:00-8:00pm
- Youth Meeting: 8:00-9:00 pm
- Saturday:
- Hymns: 5:00-6:00 pm
- Sunday School/Adult Bible Study: 6:00-7:00pm
- Vespers: 7:00-7:30pm
- Midnight Prayers: 7:30-9:30pm
- Sunday:
- Liturgy: 8:00-11:30am
- College Meeting: 11:30-12:00pm
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