+ 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...
+ Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! “For such a person whose entire life centers on the Resurrection and future blessings, every insult and scourging and persecution and other sufferings leading up to the cross are all pleasure and refreshment and surety of heavenly treasures. For...
+ A palm appears rough at the bottom, but at the top it displays its beauty and the sweetness of its fruit. For this reason, it is rightly compared to the stature of any faithful soul that endures rough labors for the Lord on earth below but hopes...
+ Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.” (John 5:5) Here again is another difficulty. Was it not possible that the glory of God be shown without this man’s punishment [of blindness]. Certainly, it was possible for...
+ Blessed Lent to All! Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked” (John 5:8). The number forty, which is produced by multiplying the number ten by four, is usually taken in scripture...
+ Blessed Lent to All! Read in the letter of James how much evil the tongue can cause. The tongue knows no middle ground; either it is a great evil or a great good; a great good when it acknowledges that Christ is God, a great evil when it...
+ Blessed Lent to All! I continuously entreat you and will not cease entreating you to persevere continually in reading the divine Scriptures. Do not let anyone say to me those vain words, worthy of heavy condemnation, “I cannot leave the courthouse, I administer the business of the city,...
+ 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...
