"By those means whereby you have lost goods, by the same will you gain them back again. You owe God a penny, and He will not accept a pearl from you in its place. Having lost chastity, do not allow fornication to remain in its place and give alms because of it: God will not... Continue Reading →
Life as a Journey
All of us have a race to run towards our appointed end. So we are all 'on the way'.
A True Fast
"For the true fast is a life pure from every evil act, and that we should break bread for those who are hungry." St. Severus of Antioch, Letter XVII to Thomas the Presbyter. Let us look to not only curb our eating habits but to feed the hungry. Let us feed the one who hungers... Continue Reading →
God Saves His People
The human problem is not that we need to be removed from the yoke of Caesar as the Jews of Christ’s time would say, it is not that we have offended and angered God as some of our time have said, no, it is our sin that is killing us.
All Things Are Rooted in The Good Who is God
"Without some share in what is Good, nothing has ever existed, nothing does exist and nothing could exist. Take lust, for example. It is devoid of Good because of its senseless covetousness.... but that does not prevent it taking its share in what is Good by means of the feeble echo that remains in it... Continue Reading →
The Epistle to Diognetus Part 5 – They Love All
“For the Christians are distinguished from other men neither by country, nor language, nor the customs which they observe. For they neither inhabit cities of their own, nor employ a peculiar form of speech, nor lead a life which is marked out by any singularity... But, inhabiting Greek as well as barbarian cities,... following the... Continue Reading →
Let us adhere to God
"And thus he has added to what has been said, ‘For what do I have in heaven, and what do I desire on earth besides you'(Ps 73.25). In respect to this latter saying, the majority of people up to the present act as follows. Although such great things are freely theirs in heaven, nevertheless they... Continue Reading →
The Epistle to Diognetus Part 4 – The Manner of The Christians Continued
"If God's Kingdom comes upon us, all those things which dominate us collapse into nothingness."
St. Gregory of Nyssa and The Splendour of The Human Being
When you turn to Him you become that which He is Himself
The Epistle to Diognetus Part 3 – The Manner of The Christians
Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we have sinned against Christ.
Are We Idolaters?
I only advise you that you do not desire what belongs to others, that you impart some of your own goods to others
The Holy Theophany
But when the Word of God became Man, He received the Spirit from the Father as one of us, (not receiving it for Himself individually, for He was the Giver of the Spirit); but that He Who knew no sin, might, by receiving It as Man, preserve It to our nature, and might again implant... Continue Reading →
An Ancient Faith For a Modern World 