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  • Divine Liturgy: Sundays 9:30AM
Archangel Michael Logo

A collection of scriptural meditations from Saints and Fathers of the Church.

He who fears God will pay careful attention to his soul and will free himself from communion with evil.

Pay no attention to praise and fear it; remember what one of the holy fathers says: 'If someone praises you, expect reproaches from him too.'

Patient endurance is the soul's struggle for virtue; where there is struggle for virtue, self-indulgence is banished.

Blessed stillness gives birth to blessed children: self-control, love and pure prayer.

A holy man told us one day, that the source of all heresies and schisms in the church was, loving God too little, and ourselves too much.

We are sons of God or of Satan according to whether we conform to goodness or to evil.

Make the body serve the commandments, keeping it so far as possible free from sickness and sensual pleasure.

Concern for one's soul means hardship and humility, for through these God forgives us all our sins.

Self-accusation before God is something that is very necessary for us; and humility of heart is extremely advantageous in our lives, above all at the time of prayer. For prayer requires great attention and needs a proper awareness, otherwise it will turn out to be unacceptable and rejected, and `it will be turned back empty' to our bosom.

Break the bonds of your friendship for the body and give it only what is absolutely necessary.

Do not be ashamed to reveal your scabs to your spiritual director. Be prepared as well to accept from him disgrace for your sins, so that by being disgraced, you might avoid eternal shame.

The intellect becomes a stranger to the things of this world when its attachment to the senses has been completely sundered.

Spiritual reading and prayer purify the intellect, while love and self-control purify the soul's passionate aspect.

Just as desire and rage multiply our sins, so self-control and humility erase them.

It is an insult to the intelligence to be subject to what lacks intelligence and to concern itself with shameful desires.

Long-suffering and readiness to forgive curb anger; love and compassion wither it.

Listlessness is an apathy of soul; and a soul becomes apathetic when sick with self-indulgence.

When a valve of the heart closes to the receptivity of worldly enjoyments, another valve opens for the reception of spiritual joys.

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5025 E. Mill Rd
Broadview Heights, Ohio 44147

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