LIFE OF HUMILITY Humility was a fundamental condition for her of whom the Lord of Glory would be born. It was indispensable that He would be born from a humble person; who could bear the glory of the divine Incarnation but her? The glory of the coming of the Holy Spirit in her? The glory of …
“And as Jesus passed by, He saw a man which was blind from his birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?” [1.] “And as Jesus passed by, He saw a man which was blind from his birth.” Being full of love for …
“1 After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the gate a sheep pool, which is surnamed in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these was lying a great multitude of the infirm, blind, lame, withered, awaiting the moving of the water. …
One of the differences between Orthodoxy and Protestantism is the Orthodox’s wonderful veneration of the cross. Our brethren the Protestants do not sign themselves with the sign of the cross before or after prayer, and say: “In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” They do not sign food with the sign …
One of the Sundays of the Great Lent is The Samaritan Woman Sunday, which tells us one of the stories of salvation… The Stories of Salvation: Stories of Salvation are of different kinds: one of which is when the sinner comes to the Lord, as in the Parable of the lost son, who came home …