Have you ever tried to grow a plant? If you wanted it to live, you had to put it in a sunny spot, give it good dirt, water it, and take care of it. Today’s Gospel reading tells us about how a farmer tried to grow his plants too. It Read more
Kindness should be our personal goal, whether it is returned or not. If our goal is to be kind, kindness will blossom from us and spread.
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos Every human character is considered to be ailing if divine grace is absent from it, because this grace perfects and maintains everything, since ‘it cures sicknesses and supplies what is missing’. The Lord stresses this when he says: ‘without me, you can do nothing’ (Jn. 15,
To serve means to offer service as it is needed, not necessarily in how we want to serve. Focus not just on work, but ministry through service.
Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis ‘Whoever falls is pitiable. But more wretched is someone who entices another into falling because that person then bears the burden of both, as well as the burden of pleasure tasted by the other’ (Saint John of Sinai, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, discourse 15). The saint
We try to place blame in all circumstances, even with nothing to blame. When faced with problems, we must identify causes and find solutions.
There are lots of circumstances that are beyond our control. How we look at certain circumstances is a choice. Be a glass half full person.
Today we think that more is better. What God expects is our best effort. A good motto is, “The best I can with what I have.” Circumstances
Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou Today’s Epistle (2nd Sunday of luke) reading preaches with assurance the paradoxical and antinomical truth that in the life of the disciples of Christ, sorrow and joy, death and life depend on each other and alternate, as long as there is faith in God and surrendering
Sunday Epistles & Gospels Third Sunday of Luke Urgency & Irony Epistle Reading for the Third Sunday of Luke II Corinthians 6:1-10 Working together with Him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain. For He says, “At the acceptable time I have listened to
We’ve all heard sad stories, haven’t we? Sometimes things are hard for people, or even for us. In today’s Gospel reading, we hear one of the saddest of all. We hear about a woman whose son had died. She was already a widow—her husband had died. Now her son had
