If you have riches, avoid applying your heart to them lest you thus depart in your heart from God. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon (Mt. 6:24). Likewise avoid squandering God’s blessings on whims and luxury; they are given you from God not for your sake alone, but also for the sake of other poor […]
Month: March 2013
“Let Us At Least Die Like Christians!”
In the book “Everyday Saints” there is a section about a monastery in Russia which had fallen into moral decay. This was not long ago, by the way. It all happened only a century ago. These monks, not unlike the Prodigal son, had taken the divine inheritance from their heavenly Father, and spent it on […]
Parish Bulletin – March 3, 2013
SUNDAY OF THE PRODIGAL SON Martyr Eutropius of Amasea, and with him Martyrs Cleonicus and Basiliscus TONE 5 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 Luke 15:11-32 Choir Director: Veronika Welcome We welcome you to the Orthodox Church. Please feel at ease and free to participate in the singing. As a visitor you are welcome to come forward at the […]
Our Thoughts Reflect Our Life
Our thoughts reflect our whole life. If our thoughts are quiet, peaceful, and full of love, kindness, and purity, then we have peace, for peaceful thoughts make possible the existence of inner peace, which radiates from us. However, if we breed negative thoughts, then our inner peace is shattered. – Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica