THE LIFE OF THE MONASTIC MARY OF EGYPT

Commemorated on the 5th Sunday of the Great Lent, April 21

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The goal of the striving of fasting, the striving of all our struggles – of repentance, prayer, and our entreaties – is to aspire toward the unveiling in us of the image of God inscribed in our nature and essence by the hand of God the Creator Himself...

The essence of Great Lent, which lasts six weeks and which leads us to Passion Week and to the Feast of Feasts, Pascha, can best be characterized as “sweet sorrow.”  During this time period, which is sorrowful and at the same time exalted, the image of man’s sinfulness,...

ARCHPRIEST TED BOBOSH | 31 JANUARY 2016

“Now a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit...