Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
As long as the Divine Liturgy is celebrated, this world will stand.
Nine separate churches were erected on a single foundation, with one central church, crowned with a large tent, surrounded by eight pillar-churches arranged in a cross-shaped plan.
Here, in this deserted place, far from the hustle and bustle of the world , the Mother of God lit an inextinguishable lamp of prayer.
St. Alexei Mechev
O Cross of the Lord! Direct us all on the path of salvation, establish peace and calm on our land, that we might live a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honor.
St. Cyprian of Carthage
That it was predicted before that the world would hate us, and that it would stir up persecutions against us, and that no new thing is happening to the Christians—for from the beginning of the world the good have suffered, and the righteous have been oppressed and slain by the unrighteous.
