Wednesday, September 30, 2015

"Wherever your Protection casts its shade, O All-Spotless One..."

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The Holy Protection of the Theotokos ( source )    Wherever your Protection casts its shade, O All-Spotless One, there the power of th...
Monday, September 28, 2015

St. Isaac the Syrian: " Blessed is the man who knows his own weakness..."

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St. Isaac the Syrian ( source )    Blessed is the man who knows his own weakness, because this knowledge becomes to him the foundatio...
Sunday, September 27, 2015

St. Andrew the Fool-for-Christ's Vision of St. John the Theologian

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St. John the Apostle, Evangelist and Theologian ( source )    This is an excerpt from the life of St. Andrew the Fool-for-Christ (see ...
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Friday, September 25, 2015

"The summit of the Apostles..."

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St. John the Evangelist and Theologian ( source )    The summit of the Apostles, the trumpet of theology, the spiritual general, who m...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

"Now rejoice, O beautiful myrtle plant..."

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Panagia Myrtidiotissa ("Of the Myrtle Tree") ( source )      Now rejoice, O beautiful myrtle plant, for you were sought b...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

A paralyzed boy healed by St. John the Russian

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St. John the Russian, depicted with St. Seraphim of Sarov and St. John of Kronstadt ( source )    In one of the two children's ho...
Monday, September 14, 2015

"We venerate the wood of Your Cross..."

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The Exaltation of the Precious Cross of Christ ( source )    We venerate the wood of Your Cross, O humane One, for You, the Life of al...