Ringing in the Year of Salvation!

“It is not right to speak of the former years and to bless them and to curse our own age. We must know that in every age and in every place, people who actually seek their salvation, find it.”

+Saint Luke, Bishop of Simferopol and Crimea, the Blessed Surgeon

#Persecuted_Church #Original_Faith

In Finland

"Your sins are written in a Book; your tears can serve as a sponge for them. Cry, and they will be erased; cry, and the Book will be clean in Heaven. Contrition for sins is a great sponge; the power of tears is great"

- St. John Chrysostom

#Discerning #Dont_Conform

There is no man who will not be grieved at the time of his chastisement; and there is not man who will not endure a bitter time, when he must drink the poison of temptations. Without them, it is not possible to obtain a strong will. When he has often experienced the help of God in temptations, a man also obtains strong faith.
(St. Isaac the Syrian, Homilies, 37)