HER PROTECTION AND CARE
“Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother...
A NEW SELF, A NEW NAME
“Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give.. a white stone with a...
THE FIRST LOVE
“To the angel of the church of Ephesus write: ‘…you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for my name’s sake and have not...
THE FOOLISHNESS OF THE CROSS
“Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God...
A DIFFICULT DISCIPLINE
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord...
CARRYING ANOTHER’S CROSS
“As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made...
CLICKING WITH HIM
“We must no longer be infants (νήπιοι), tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of teaching, by people’s trickery, by their...
GIVE US TODAY
“Give us this day (σήμερον) our daily bread.” (The Lord’s Prayer, Mt 6:11) The Lord teaches me to place my dependence on Him in a...
BEING BUILT TOGETHER
“Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,...
THE NEW IN THE OLD
“A childless woman gives birth to the Theotokos, the nourisher of our life!” (End of Kontakion or hymn of the Nativity of the Mother of...
