Blessed Feast of St. Peter & Paul We hear in Acts, “The brethren received us [Paul and his travel companions] gladly.” Perhaps some of you will say, “Yes, if I were given the chance to entertain Paul as a guest, I readily and with much eagerness would do this.”...
Blessed Apostles Fast! This is love tp one’s enemies: to make no reply in the face of hatred, to bear the reception of insults patiently, to forgive an insult either inflicted by a hand or stirred up by stinging words. – St. Valerian “Pray for those who offend you....
Blessed Apostles Fast! For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned (Matt 12:35). “In the power of the tongue are death and life” (Prov. 18:21) and, “By your words you shall be justified and by your words you will be condemned.” I...
Blessed Apostles Fast! And when they had preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God” (Acts...
Blessed Apostles Fast! “Now if a person encounters in his [or her] path some afflictions or trial, he must not turn aside. Rather, he should accept whatever it is joyously, without scrutiny, and give thanks to God, because God has sent him this gift. That is to say, because...
Blessed Apostles Fast! “Do you know how great the power of love is? Christ omitted all the miracles which were to be performed by the apostles and said, “By this shall all people know that you are My disciples: if you love one another.” Moreover, Paul said that love...
This Spirit, He is most wise and most loving, for if He takes possession of a shepherd, He makes him a Psalmist, subduing evil spirits by his song, and proclaims him king; if he was “a herdsman and a gatherer of sycamore fruits” (Am. 7:14), He makes him a...
+ Christ is Ascended! The resurrection of the Lord is our hope, the Lord’s Ascension our glorification. Today we are celebrating the feast of the Ascension. So if we are to celebrate the Lord’s Ascension in the right way, with faith, devotion, with reverence as God-fearing people,...
+ Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! “An angel went down to the Three Holy Children while they were in fiery furnace Let us now go down with them who are in the furnace of poverty, and by almsgiving let us make a “dewy air,” and...
+ 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...
