Saturday, April 28, 2018

St. Porphyrios: "Take delight in all things that surround us..."

Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!
Icon of the Resurrection of Christ decorated with flowers (source)
   
“Take delight in all things that surround us. All things teach us and lead us to God. All things around us are droplets of the love of God — both things animate and inanimate, the plants and the animals, the birds and the mountains, the sea and the sunset and the starry sky. They are little loves through which we attain to the great Love that is Christ. Flowers, for example, have their own grace; they teach us with their fragrance and with their magnificence. They speak to us of the love of God. They scatter their fragrance and their beauty on sinners and on the righteous.”
-St Porphyrios
   
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St. Porphtrios of Kavsokalyvia (source)


Christ is risen from the dead, by death, trampling down upon death, and to those in the tombs, He has granted life!
Truly the Lord is risen!

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