Fr. Lawrence Farley
We are not worth the suffering caused to the sinless Son of God. And yet of course that was why He suffered for us, the sinless for the sinful, the innocent for the guilty, the immortal God for mortal and dying men.
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Today the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of one of the early stars in the pleiades of new martyrs and confessors of the Communist yoke, Metropolitan Benjamin (Kazansky) of Petrograd and Gdovsk, together with Archimandrite Sergei, Yuri, and John.
The monks had to complete the service regardless of the shells flying at them, even if it meant their death. So they prayed like the first Christians in the catacombs as the tanks kept shelling the church.
Marina Biryukova
For me there is no doubt that faith in the crucified Christ is invincible and that the alleged triumph of materialism is a temporary phenomenon.
We are constantly in Matthew a struggle; and as the Holy Scriptures say, it is not against flesh and blood but against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
