Food for Thought (6/8)

God is gone up in jubilation, the Lord with the voice of the trumpet, to raise the fallen image of Adam, and to send the Comforting Spirit to sanctify our souls. 

Stichera of the Aposticha for the Feast of the Ascension

Last Update: 06/09 at 03:57 PM  

Food for Thought (5/25)

Costly (fervent) love, which sacrifices itself and does not partake of the world, is itself consumed by the love of God from within.  The life of man is then a continuous Lent and all of his days are a continuous joy of light.  Costly love for God, with its sacrifices, sweetens the heart to boiling, and divine love, which cannot be held in, like steam, soars and so unites to God.  This state of spiritual madness not only takes man out of himself, but even the heart is taken from the flesh, that is, from the fleshly desires, and is clothed completely in, and refined in God.

Elder Paisios the Athonite, “Precious Vessels of the Holy Spirit: The Lives and Counsels of Contemorary Elders of Greece”, p. 136.

Last Update: 05/26 at 11:28 AM  

Food for Thought (5/18)

I have made an agreement with God: I will empty my pockets in almsgiving and He will fill them.  He has never violated our agreement.  Will I violate it?  May it never happen!

Elder Epiphanios of Athens, from “Precious Vessels of the Holy Spirit: The Lives and Counsels of Contemporary Elders of Greece”, p. 78.

Last Update: 05/20 at 12:49 PM