Wednesday December 10, 2025 / November 27, 2025 27th Week after Pentecost. Tone one. Nativity/St. Philip’s Fast-Fish Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos named “Znamenie”. Commemoration of the miracle of the Weeping Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Of the Sign” at Novgorod in 1170. Great-martyr James the Persian (421). Venerable Palladius of Thessalonica
Category: The Morning Offering
“Fasting is a school of abstinence. In fasting, we learn to restrain the desires of our bowels. In fasting, we learn to rebuke the evil desires of our flesh, always seeking to dominate the spirit, always seeking to destroy all our spiritual desires, to subdue our will to the desires
Tuesday December 9, 2025 / November 26, 2025 27th Week after Pentecost. Tone one. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fish Allowed Venerable Alypius the Stylite of Adrianopolis (640). Dedication of the Church of St. George at Kiev (1051). Repose of St. Innocent, first bishop of Irkutsk (1731). New Hieromartyrs Nicholas, John, Gregory and Nazarius, Basil, Basil, Ilia,
No Dialogue With Demons Just say Jesus and drop the dialogue with thoughts that rob your peace. #jesus #jesusprayer #orthodox
Monday December 8, 2025 / November 25, 2025 27th Week after Pentecost. Tone one. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fish Allowed Apodosis of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple. Hieromartyr Clement, pope of Rome (101). Hieromartyr Peter, archbishop of Alexandria (311). Woman Hieromartyr Magdalen (1931). New Hieromartyrs Seraphim archbishop of Smolensk, Gregory,
Lord, Take The Wheel Now “We often get into hopeless situations in our lives or during a single day. At that moment, we should say, “Lord, take the wheel now because I can’t do it anymore; I don’t know where to go anymore!” You will see how nicely God gets
Sunday December 7, 2025 / November 24, 2025 26th Sunday after Pentecost. Tone one. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fish Allowed 1Great-martyr Mercurius of Caesarea in Cappadocia (259). 2Great-martyr Catherine of Alexandria (305). 2Hieromartyr Mercurius of Smolensk (1238). 0Venerable Mercurius, the Faster of the Kievan Caves, far caves (14th C). oNew Hieromartyr Eugraphus (1919). oNew Hieromartyrs Eugene and Michael
Escape From This Hell “The escape from this hell of addiction to food cannot be anything but prayer, the reestablishment of our ontological dependence on God. But if we eat and feel we betrayed God, we will never escape this hell. We must do what He teaches us: do everything
Saturday December 6, 2025 / November 23, 2025 26th Week after Pentecost. Tone eight. Nativity (St. Philip’s Fast). Fish St. Amphilochius, bishop of Iconium (394). St. Gregory, bishop of Agrigentum (680). St. Alexander Nevsky (in schema Alexis), grand prince of Novgorod (1263). St. Metrophanes (in schema Macarius), bishop of Voronezh (1703). New Hieromartyr Seraphim
“In how many, many ways have the persecutors of Christians thought to themselves that they were done with Christianity for good. In fact, it was their lives that were finished, while Christianity sprouted and flowered anew. Still, even in the face of this experience, some of our contemporaries reckon that