This Spirit, He is most wise and most loving, for if He takes possession of a shepherd, He makes him a Psalmist, subduing evil spirits by his song, and proclaims him king; if he was “a herdsman and a gatherer of sycamore fruits” (Am. 7:14), He makes him a...
+ Christ is Ascended! The resurrection of the Lord is our hope, the Lord’s Ascension our glorification. Today we are celebrating the feast of the Ascension. So if we are to celebrate the Lord’s Ascension in the right way, with faith, devotion, with reverence as God-fearing people,...
+ Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! “An angel went down to the Three Holy Children while they were in fiery furnace Let us now go down with them who are in the furnace of poverty, and by almsgiving let us make a “dewy air,” and...
+ Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! We ought to go to church as to a living fountain or a spiritual river, brethren, so that we may receive the Living Water about which the Lord said, “He who thirsts, let him come and drink. He who...
+ Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! We ought to go to church as to a living fountain or a spiritual river, brethren, so that we may receive the Living Water about which the Lord said, “He who thirsts, let him come and drink. He who...
+ Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! “For such a person whose entire life centers on the Resurrection and future blessings, every insult and scourging and persecution and other sufferings leading up to the cross are all pleasure and refreshment and surety of heavenly treasures. For...
+ A palm appears rough at the bottom, but at the top it displays its beauty and the sweetness of its fruit. For this reason, it is rightly compared to the stature of any faithful soul that endures rough labors for the Lord on earth below but hopes...
+ Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.” (John 5:5) Here again is another difficulty. Was it not possible that the glory of God be shown without this man’s punishment [of blindness]. Certainly, it was possible for...
+ Blessed Lent to All! Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked” (John 5:8). The number forty, which is produced by multiplying the number ten by four, is usually taken in scripture...
+ Blessed Lent to All! Read in the letter of James how much evil the tongue can cause. The tongue knows no middle ground; either it is a great evil or a great good; a great good when it acknowledges that Christ is God, a great evil when it...
