If you are never angry, always forgiving instantly and constantly blaming yourself knowing that you CAN NEVER BE RIGHT you will have heaven on earth and in your heart.
place yourself behind all others
Our intentions must be put in order, that is, to convince ourselves that for the sake of being saved, we must become the last of all. He who creeps ahead, Christ will pull back, but he who places himself behind all others will be moved ahead.
blessed Gerontissa Makrina
come Lord Jesus
The Grace of God, that comes with the sweetest name of Jesus, softens the soul. The world could be upside down, and inside a person there is meekness, self control, peace and a spiritual state of great delight.
blessed Gerontissa Makrina
let’s go on a little walk
when thoughts and our problems choke us and we are oppressed by everything, we should say to ourselves, “Come here, let’s go on a little walk. I’ll show you around Paradise. Come and see the magnificence of God!”
Do you know what you are going to be deprived of if you don’t bring your mind to the magnificence of God?
You will be deprived of seeing the angels! You see that the holy angels have order, and they each have different garments. Some angels’ wings are gold; other angels have wings of light – some green, some blue, others are red- all different. Man’s eye can not get enough of the magnificence of the wings of the angels in Heaven!
What is going on in Heaven is unspeakable! Oh how the devil keeps us occupied with all the earthly things here, and he deprives us of the splendor of Heaven.”
blessed Gerontissa Makrina
why didn’t you get up?
The compassion of God is like the ocean, like the heavens. God does not say, “why did you sin?” but instead, “why didn’t you get up?” He forgives us for everything: it is enough that we repent as soon as we understand we have made a mistake. Are we not human? We fall. However, we must get up. Christ loves us so much!”
the blessed Gerontissa Makrina
starting from today
Every day, as we awake – starting from today – we need to make a new beginning to do what must be done, to do that which avid desires. Every time we fall, we will get up, we will fall again and we will get up again. Let us not lose our hope and our faith in God.
the blessed gerontissa makrina
within our hearts a lamp
there is a light that never goes out
“And Christ crucified rejoices when He sees us following Him, undaunted and not turning back. Then you should know that in pain and in mourning, in death and in poverty there is, within our hearts a lamp, a light that nobody can ever extinguish.”
Abbot Ephraim of Vatopedi Monastery : Mount Athos Greece
Video sermon on Lent’s Third Sunday Vespers
as we forgive
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During the upcoming Fast we approach the mystery of repentance and ask the Lord to forgive us of our sins. But this will only be given to us only if we forgive each other’s offenses.
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Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk
A homily preached on Cheesefare Sunday of 1901
open to me the doors of repentance
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Repentance is the door through which we enter Lent, the starting point of our journey to Pascha.
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Metropolitan Kallistos
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