And in summer in our God–preserved city of Lugansk, as if by special order exactly during the Eucharistic Canon the glass in our church windows and stained-glass windows would always begin to shake badly from the nearby artillery fire. And what next?No one left!
St. Seraphim (Chichagov)
The proclamation of anathema means excommunication from the Church; that is, from the society of believers, and the loss of the blessing of God, the blessings of the Kingdom of Heaven.
St. Seraphim (Sobolev)
I greet you, beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, with receiving of the Body and Blood of our Savior. You’ve received into yourself such a blessing, of which there is nothing higher or better in the world.
St. Philaret of Chernigov
Why don’t you want to tell someone else about your sins? Are you ashamed? Oh, if only it were so!
Elena Detinina
St. Polycarp replied calmly and firmly to all this: “We do not trade the best for the worst: It is a noble thing to turn from wickedness to righteousness. I have been serving the Lord for eighty-six years now, and I will be faithful to Him to the death.”
