“Let us stress once more that the purpose of Lent is not to force on us a few formal obligations, but to ‘soften’ our heart so that it may open itself to the realities of the spirit, to experience the…

“This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.” St. Issac of Syria How many times have you asked yourself the question, “What is the meaning of life?” Between my own repeated askings…

“We are tempted by this ‘fast-food’ culture to want everything now, but the spiritual journey demands patience for we receive blessings in God’s time not our own.” Bishop Joseph Auxiliary to the Metropolitan Antiochian Archdiocese Every day we need to…

“Whoever seeks eternal blessedness and desires it and strives to reach it will despise everything temporal, lest while seeking the temporal he be deprived of the eternal.” St. Tikhon of Zadonsk Challenging words like these are always difficult to read.…

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to…