St. Innocent of Kherson
By its very appearance, fasting dispels a whole throng of disorders and temptations.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)
The Lord is always with us, He never abandons any of us.
Each person has the possibility to enter into this wondrous divine Light. After all, Christ came into the world for this, and poured out His blood on the Cross so that we might enter into His unutterable joy.
Archpriest Pavel Kondrakov
Just as nature comes back to life in spring and all its vital forces that were hidden during the winter come into bloom, so a person comes back to life during fasting, revives in repentance and springs up to life with God.
St. Philaret of Chernigov
Weep, sinner, wandering far from your homeland, from your Heavenly fatherland. Where is our homeland? Where is our Jerusalem?
