True Humility “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” C.S. Lewis #humility #self #thinking
Friday September 12, 2025 / August 30, 2025 14th Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Fast. Wine & Oil Allowed. Sts. Alexander (340), John (595), and Paul the New (784), patriarchs of Constantinople. Repose of Venerable Alexander, abbot of Svir (1533). Translation of the relics (1724) of St. Alexander Nevsky (1263). Uncovering of the relics of St. Daniel, prince of Moscow (1652). New
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Do You Condemn God? “When you condemn a fallen man, you condemn God. If you see a robber, a fornicator, a prostitute, a drunkard lying on the street, do not judge, as the Lord allows their passion. Maybe this is how they should find the way to God, so that
Thursday September 11, 2025 / August 29, 2025 14th Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Fast. Food with Oil The Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner, and Baptist John. Fast Day. Commemoration of orthodox soldiers killed on a battle fields. Venerable Alexander, abbot of Voche, of Galich (16th c.). New Martyr Anastasius of Bulgaria (1794).
The Scriptures Apply To Me “A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, will relate all things to himself and not to others.” Saint Mark the Ascetic #scripture #bible #spiritual
Wednesday September 10, 2025 / August 28, 2025 14th Week after Pentecost. Tone four. Fast. Food with Oil Venerable Moses the Black of Scete (400). Uncovering of the relics of Venerable Job of Pochaev (1651). New Hieromartyr Alexis (1918). New Martyrs Archimandrite Sergius (Zaytsev) and monks of Zilantov Monastery of Kazan (1918) hieromonks Laurecnce (Nikitin),
Extinguish Evil “If a man has on one side of him fire, and on the other side a vessel with water, then if he starts burning from the fire, he takes water from the vessel and extinguishes the fire. Like to this are the evil thoughts, suggested by the enemy
Rivers of Living Water: On The Holy Elders of Kolitsou, Mount Athos by Hieromonk Nicodemus Jones. Soon to be released by https://stgeorgepress.com/ and featuring a focus on the newly glorified Venerable Dionysios of Kolitsou (Romanian: Dionisie Ignat of Colciu), who Father Nicodemus lived with and interviewed, along with other members
Boundless Soul “No matter how much we may study, it is not possible to come to know God unless we live according to His commandments, for God is not known by science, but by the Holy Spirit. Many philosophers and learned men came to the belief that God exists, but