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[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]
[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]
Bishop Alexander (Mileant)
[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]
St. Barsanuphius of Optina
[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]
[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]
Fr. Seraphim Holland
We cannot but scratch the surface of what this parable means in the Christian life, but it is here primarily because one cannot celebrate a feast without being morally prepared. This parable tells us sins to avoid, attitudes to avoid. It tells us to wake up! It tells us to be ready. We commemorate the Holy Forefathers today, because they indeed were part of the preparation for Christ. Without them, there would have been no God-man, Jesus Christ, because He was born of a woman, who was of their lineage, and, if this is not exactly so in a physical sense[2], their prophesies and piety prepared the way for the coming of Christ. That was part of God’s plan.
[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]
[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]
Archimdrite Kirill (Pavlov)
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[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]
[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]
[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]
[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]
Olga Rozhneva
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Nun Cornelia (Rees)
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[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]
Vincent Martini
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Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]
[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]
[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]
[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]
St. Gregory Palamas, St. John of Kronstadt, Deacon Giorgi Maximov
If a tree is known by its fruit, and a good tree bears good fruit (cf. Mt. 7:17; Lk. 6:44), then is not the Mother of Goodness Itself, She who bore the Eternal Beauty, incomparably more excellent than every good, whether in this world or the world above? Therefore, the coeternal and identical Image of goodness, Preeternal, transcending all being, He Who is the preexisting and good Word of the Father, moved by His unutterable love for mankind and compassion for us, put on our image, that He might reclaim for Himself our nature which had been dragged down to uttermost Hades, so as to renew this corrupted nature and raise it to the heights of Heaven.
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