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

Serving the sick is one of the most powerful weapons for guarding one's purity.

Great Lent - all of its services are united by the idea of preparing for Holy Pascha, to meet the Risen Christ with a clean heart.

How can one say that a man has attained purity? - When he sees all men as being good, and when none appears to him to be unclean and defiled - then he is indeed pure in heart.

Just as a moth devours clothing and a worm devours wood, so dejection devours a man’s soul.

Paschal joy is a foretaste of eternal joy in the approaching kingdom of Christ.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Everything we do, our every objective, must be undertaken for the sake of this purity of heart. This is why we take on loneliness, fasting, vigils, work, nakedness. For this we must practice the reading of the Scripture, together with all the other virtuous activities, and we do so to trap and to hold our hearts free of the harm of every dangerous passion and in order to rise step by step to the high point of love.

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