Despair Not

"Keep your mind in hell and despair not."

-Christ's message to St. Silouan the Athonite

Who am I?

Who am I?  I feel like the entirety of life is spent in answering this question.  What a better time than Lent to be able to make progress on this question.

Lord Have Mercy

Rest in peace to the brothers and sisters who perished at the New Zealand mosque shootings.  How much evil there is in the world.  How do you go into another person's place of worship and shoot down people in such a savage manner?

Martyrs

Think of the sufferings of the martyrs.  Think and stay silent.

No Limit

“A man who for years had thought he had reached the absolute limit of all possible suffering now found that suffering had no limits, and that he could suffer still more, and more intensely.”

-Victor Frankl 

The Journey of the Great Lent

Suffering for Christ.  Yes.  That is what we must do this Lent.  Even if the suffering is unbearable.  All things pass.  Christ is close to us in the pangs of affliction.

Two Miracles from St. Porphyrios