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Sunday, March 29, 2015

Jesus Heals The Blind Man





For when He sent him to the pool of Siloam to wash, He sent him blind. And when he began to see, he did not see the Savior among the multitude that had gathered around him, but immediately, before he saw the Master, he was called to struggle in the contest. For the Master put clay on his eyes before this, that the following might be fulfilled.

For when they cast him out, Christ found him and said to him: "Do you believe in the Son of God?" For he did not see him as a prophet and struggle, but as the Son of God. He did not recognize His face, but he recognized His voice. "Do you believe," He said, "in the Son of God?"

St. John Chrysostom  




Pure Heart


I prayed for a pure heart, it took me a long time and a hard struggle to discover that prayer itself is the only road to a pure heart.

Pope Saint (St. Abba Cyril VI) Kyrillos VI
116th Pope of Alexandria

 

I prayed for a pure heart, it took me a long time and a hard struggle to discover that prayer itself is the only road to...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Help


Help those who are weak with a word of comfort, that you may find grace before the Lover of Mankind.

Pope Saint (St. Abba Cyril VI) Kyrillos VI
116th Pope of Alexandria


 

Trust


Be sure that He who has chosen the beginning of the road for you, will not leave you on the middle of it.

Pope Saint (St. Abba Cyril VI) Kyrillos VI
116th Pope of Alexandria



Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Temptations And Trails






Just as the Lord is solicitous about our salvation, so too the murder of men, the devil, strives to lead a man into despair.

A lofty and sound soul does not despair over misfortunes, of whatever sort they may be. Our life is as it were a house of temptations and trials; but we will not renounce the Lord for as long as He allows the tempter to remain with us and for as long as we must wait to be revived through patience and secure passionless!

Judas the betrayer was fainthearted and unskilled in battle, and so the enemy, seeing his despair, attacked him and forced him to hang himself, but Peter, a firm rock, when he fell into great sin, like one skilled in battle did not despair nor lose heart, but shed bitter tears from a burning heart, and the enemy, seeing these tears, his eyes scorched as by fire, fled far form him wailing in pain.

And so brothers, St. Antioch teaches, when despair attacks us let us not yield to it, but being strengthened and protected by the light of faith, with great courage let us say to the evil spirit: “What are you to us, estranged from God, a fugitive from heaven and evil servant? You dare do nothing to us. Christ, the Son of God, has authority both over us and over everything. It is against Him that we have sinned, and before Him that we will be justified. And you, destroyer, leave us. Strengthen by His venerable Cross, we trample under foot your serpent’s head.”

Seraphim Of Sarvo