+ “You will know if you have attained the love of God if you have the Lord’s long-suffering patience and like Him, you pray for those who persecute you. You will say, ‘Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.’ A very clear proof that a...
+ There are many virtues which can make us pleasing to God and cause us to appear illustrious and worthy of esteem, but the one that most especially wins favor from on high is loving-concern for the welfare of our neighbor…”Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than...
+ Blessed Feast of Sts. Peter & Paul Now, if the twelve apostles leavened the whole world, how is it that we, being so many, are not able to amend them who remain? We, who ought to be enough for ten thousand worlds, should become leaven to all. “But they,” one...
+ Blessed Fast of the Apostles To love friends is custom for all people, but to love enemies is customary only for Christians” – Tertulian St. Paul the Apostle says, “I have crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.” How deep is...
+ Blessed Pentecost & Fast of the Apostles This Holy Spirit, for He is most wise and most loving, if He takes possession of a shepherd He makes him a Psalmist, subduing evil spirits by his song (1 Sam. 16:23), and proclaims him king; if he was “a herdsman and...
+ Christ is Risen & Ascended! “Our Savior, dearly beloved, has ascended into heaven; therefore, let us not be disturbed on earth. Let our spirit be in heaven, and peace will be here. Meanwhile, let us ascend with Christ in heart, and when His promise day comes, we shall also...
+ Christ is Risen! Christ showed the way, and He showed the place when He said: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” Let us enter on this Way, let us hold to the Truth, let us follow the Life. He is the way that leads, the...
+ Christ is Risen! Truly, He is Risen! So that one ought not to be useful to himself alone but also to many others, Christ declared plainly when He called us salt, leaven, and light, for these things are useful and profitable to others. For a lamp does not...
+ Christ is Risen! Truly, He is Risen! We ought to go to church as to a living fountain or a spiritual river, brethren, so that we may receive the Living Water about which the Lord said, “He who thirsts, let him come and drink. He who believes in...
+ Christ is Risen! Truly, He is Risen! “The Eucharist unites the body to God. Our bodies, having received poison, need an Antidote; and only by eating and drinking can it enter.” – St. Gregory of Nyssa In the Holy Eucharist, we accomplish the exchange of our limited and...
