Category Archives: Obedience
When Men Forsake God, Tyranny always Follows
April 3, 2013 By Fr. John Peck by Chris Banescu Sic semper tyrannis. “But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I … Continue reading
please Man or please God
Love for God, Who verily sends His blessing upon us, liberates the soul from extraneous pressure. The one imperative is to preserve this loving tie with God. We shall not care what people think of us, or how they treat … Continue reading
Pushing the Rock
A man kept having the same dream. In this dream, God would bring the man to a place where there was a very large rock, bigger than the man himself. God would say, “Your role is to push that rock”. … Continue reading
Proof of righteousness is in a peaceful Spirit
Proof of our righteousness in God is a peaceful spirit, which the Holy Spirit generates in the righteous soul. If you do not have this peace, which means that you have no righteousness. You are governed by fleeting impressions, and … Continue reading
Misfortune
Here on earth we frequently experience many misfortunes and hardships, but all of these are because we have not humbled ourselves. Elder Thaddeus At that time there were a lot of deaths on earth. People were snatched unexpectedly and abandoned … Continue reading
God’s Providence
In looking at life, we should accept all the things which come to us as God’s providence, knowing that they are intended to wake us up from our passions. We should pray to God to show us some God-pleasing thing … Continue reading
Submitting to authority
The account of the devout centurion that appears in both Matthew and Luke serves as a model, for how Christ our Lord is to be approached, unless Christ our Lord is to be approached as a figment of our own … Continue reading
Semto Mechal 