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Prayer carries us, not we our prayer – Mother Alexandra

4 April 2016 By Andrew Leave a Comment

Mother Alexandra (founder of Holy Transfiguration Monastery near Pittsburgh and the former Princess Ileana of Romania)

I sometimes think we give too much importance to our outward attitude of prayer. We expect too much emotionally of ourselves, much more than God is asking for. God is only asking us to remember Him at all times, in good and bad periods to offer Him this moment of our time — this moment, not the following one. The present is what He asks; not in great gestures of surrender, but in a continual… [ read more ]

— Journal of the Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Ellwood City, PA

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The mark of a king is to die for his subjects – St John Chrysostom

3 April 2016 By Andrew Leave a Comment

St John Chrysostom

I call Christ ‘King’ precisely because I see Him crucified. For it is the mark of a king to die for the sake of his subjects.

— Gregorios, Hieromonk of Mt. Athos: /The Divine Liturgy – A Commentary in the Light of the Fathers/ p108

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