“Pray with grateful patience because we are usually not very far-seeing and little know ourselves, while the Lord God knows well all the circumstances surrounding us and lying ahead of us, and He knows us incomparably better than we know ourselves.” Metropolitan Gregory (Postnikov) of Saint Petersburg #God #prayer #patience
Thursday April 2, 2026 / March 20, 2026 Sixth Week of the Great Lent. Tone one.Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil The Holy Fathers who were slain at the Monastery of St.Sabbas: Venerables John, Sergius, Patrick, and others (796).New Hieromartyr Vladimir priest (1918).New Hieromartyr Basil deacon (1938).New Hieromartyr Priest Nicholas Holz
“Humility is the most precious and most fragrant Spiritual myrrh that man can offer to God, because this is what best suits His Quality. The Fathers say that what will make the greatest impression on us in Paradise will be that God with His infinite Power and His infinite Wisdom,
Wednesday April 1, 2026 / March 19, 2026 Sixth Week of the Great Lent. Tone one.Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria, and those with them at Rome: Claudius, Hilaria, Jason, Maurus, Diodorus presbyter, and Marianus deacon (283).St. Sophia of Slutsk and Minsk (1612).St. John confessor (1932).St. Matrona (1938).Venerable Symeon of the Pskov Caves
God loves us despite ourselves. #god #orthodox #love
Tuesday March 31, 2026 / March 18, 2026 Sixth Week of the Great Lent. Tone one.Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil St. Cyril, archbishop of Jerusalem (386).New Hieromartyr Demetrius priest, Virgin-martyr Natalia (1938).Venerable Maria (Skobtsova), nun, who suffered at Ravensbruck (1945).Martyrs Trophimus and Eucarpus of Nicomedia (300).Venerable Ananias (Aninas), presbyter and monk, of the
“I arise today through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, through belief in the threeness, through confession of the oneness of the Creator of creation. I arise today through the strength of Christ’s Birth with His Baptism, through the strength of His Crucifixion with His Burial, through the
Monday March 30, 2026 / March 17, 2026 Sixth Week of the Great Lent. Tone one.Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits) Venerable Alexis the Man of God, in Rome (411).Venerable Macarius, abbot of Kalyazin (1483).New Hieromartyr Alexander priest (1919).New Hieromartyr Victor priest (1942).Venerable Parthenius of Kiev (1855).Martyr Marinus, soldier, at
“God is perfect, He is faultless. And so, when Divine love becomes manifest in us in the fullness of Grace, we radiate this love, not only on the earth, but throughout the entire universe as well. So God is in us, and He is present everywhere. It is God’s all-encompassing
Sunday March 29, 2026 / March 16, 2026 Fifth Sunday of the Great Lent. Tone one.Great Lent. Food with Oil Venerable Mary of Egypt (movable holiday on the 5th Sunday of the Great Lent).Martyr Sabinas of Hermopolis, Egypt (303).Martyr Papas of Lycaonia (305).St. Serapion, archbishop of Novgorod (1516).Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, bishop of Britain (1st c.).Hieromartyr Alexander, pope