From the Akathist hymn “Glory to God For All Things”: How glorious You are in the springtime, when every creature awakens to new life and joyfully sings Your praises with a thousand tongues! You are the source of life, the destroyer of death. By the light of the moon, nightingales sing, and the valleys and [...]

From “Indication of the Way into the Kingdom of Heaven” by St. Innocent of Alaska: Why do we exist in this world? Being the creation and work of the hands of Almighty God, we exist in this world solely so that we may glorify God’s holy and great Name through our action, and with all [...]

A Prayer by St Dimitri of Rostov: Open, O doors and bolts of my heart that Christ the King of Glory may enter! Enter, O my Light and enlighten my darkness; Enter, O my Life, and resurrect my deadness; Enter, O my Physician and heal my wounds; Enter, O Divine Fire, and burn up the [...]

From “The Faith of Chosen People” by St. Nikolai Velimirovic: The Most Gracious Only-begotten Son of God bowed down the heavens and came down to the earth for our sake and for the sake of our salvation. He did not descend from a throne to another throne, but from a throne to cold stone. He [...]

From St. Tikhon of Zadonsk: Prayer does not consist merely in standing and bowing your body or in reading written prayers. … It is possible to pray at all times, in all places, with mind and spirit. You can lift up your mind and heart to God while walking, sitting, working, in a crowd and [...]