
Let us have faith in our Christ, in our Panagia, and in the saints. We should love the Panagia fervently so that she will give us the joy of her Son. May the joy of Christ grow in our souls… my little soul, you gain nothing if you do not “love your God with all your mind, with all your strength and your neighbor as yourself.” We must learn not to judge that ye be not judged. If we keep these two commandments, we will go all together to Christ; we will go to Paradise with great ease. This is what the Fathers guarded so closely; they prayer that this Gospel message would be imprinted on their souls so that they could live it. We live our lives carelessly. The good years pass, the good days pass our good minutes slip by – even those slip between our fingers.
Gerontissa Makrina
Words of the Heart

said the Most Holy Theotokos to the Apostles prior to the Dormition
