“As a fish cannot swim without water, and as a bird cannot fly without air, so a Christian cannot advance a single step without Christ.” – Saint Gregory the Theologian https://www.brighteon.com/18fb8f95-3528-4527-af63-ae9a364b6bba
Category: The Morning Offering
Only Lives Transformed Impart the Faith That our Orthodox Church possesses the totality of Apostolic Truth is a given, yet if in our weakness as believers the obviousness of that Truth is invisible to others, we will have betrayed that Truth. If in our weakness we fail to be an
He makes us to lie down in green pastures…if we pay attention. https://www.brighteon.com/c2eb9b6d-e0be-47ef-8c0d-f07fce69098a
Shrugging off Religion and Replacing it with Nothing According to Professor Mark Silk of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., “The real dirty little secret of religiosity in America is that there are so many people for whom spiritual interest, thinking about ultimate questions, is minimal,” Increasing numbers of people are
“Do we prepare at all? Not in a bunker..but gardening and canning to help others if famine does happen?” @freebirdfarm4423 https://www.brighteon.com/95a26ca6-ff8f-4d91-a283-e778ce36fbe7
The Best Way to Impart Criticism “Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” Frank A. Clark, writer (1911-). When offering someone criticism it is important that we do so with kindness. Studies have shown that to counter one negative comment it
Despair is a lie. Do something! WATCH THE FULLY HOMILY HERE: https://youtu.be/cOMwpgyMAWk https://www.brighteon.com/1d1feefd-704d-4704-9dbb-e821638e7471
Religious Liberty: The Litmus Test for all Human Rights Freedom of religion has always been the hallmark of our American way of life. Our Founding Fathers migrated to the shores of the New World primarily to seek religious freedom, fleeing as they were the religious persecution they suffered in England.
Freedom is for the faithful to the end, and beyond. https://www.brighteon.com/bf45276b-f9fd-49de-9bf7-9759c8837022
Tapping into the Noetic Memory of the Heart The heart does not only have a natural operation as a mere pump that circulates blood. In Orthodox patristic tradition the heart is the center of our self-awareness. Saint Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain (+1809) calls the heart a natural and supernatural