Quote of the Day: St. John Chrysostom

Let us afford our children from the first an incentive to goodness from the name that we give them. Let none of us hasten to call his children after his forebearers, his father and mother and grandfather and grandmother, but rather after the righteous - martyrs, bishops, apostles. Let one be called Peter, another John, another bear the name of one of the saints. Let the names of the saints enter our homes through the naming of our children.”

Ascension of the Lord

Glory to Jesus Christ! Слава Иисусу Христу! Having spent 40 days with His disciples, today the Lord ascends into heaven to complete the deification and glorification of our flesh through His enthronement at the right hand of God the Father.

As St. John Chrysostom wrote, "We who seemed unworthy of the earth, are now raised to heaven. We who were unworthy of earthly dominion have been raised to the kingdom on high, have ascended higher than heaven, have come to occupy the King's throne, and the same nature from which the Angels guarded Paradise, stopped not until it ascended to the throne of the Lord."

More on today's feast can be found here. I hope and pray that you have a blessed and joyous feast wherever you are today! "God is with us!"

Three Holy Hierarchs

Joyous feast! С праздником! I must confess to find this day somewhat silly in its beginnings, but it is a wonderful feast nonetheless! More on its origins can be found here.

Quote of the Day: St. John Chrysostom

The grace of love is greater than the grace of resurrecting from the dead.

Quote of the Day: St. John Chrysostom

Every work which does not have love as its beginning and root is nothing.

Quote of the Day: St. John Chrysostom

"The point is not only that we should come to church each day, that we should continually listen to one and the same thing, and that we should fast for the whole forty days. No! If If we, from continually coming here and listening to the teaching, do not acquire anything and do not derive any good for our soul from the time of the fast all this does not procure for us any benefit, but rather serves for our greater condemnation when despite such concern for us by the Church we remain...the same as before."

St. John Chrysostom

There's no denying St. John wasn't the greatest guy ever, but his commitment to God is undeniable and his impact on theology and liturgics in the East is pretty huge, so a joyous feast to all :-)! More on his life can be found here.