Give thanks

Before all else, let us list sincere thanksgiving first on the scroll of our prayer. On the second line, we should put confession and heartfelt contrition of soul. Then let us present our petition to the King of all. This is the best way of prayer as it was shown to one of the brethren by an angel of the Lord.   

 

 

Be Eucharistic

Give thanks unto God

Attend the Divine Liturgy today 

 

Blessed Thanksgiving to all!  Presbytera Candace

On those who tempt and grieve you

Put up with that person who grieves you and creates temptations.  Put up with him joyfully.  Pray for him every day.  Alays try to do good to him, to commend him, to speak to him with love, and God will work His miracle and he will reform.  Then our Christ will be glorified and the devil, who sets up all the stumbling-blocks, will be foiled.  Force yourself especially to stop criticizing and lying.  Your penance is to do one prayer-rope every day for this person who hates you, so that God may enlighten him to repent…   

 

If this person does something against you, overlook it, be patient.  Let yourself be wronged, but do not wrong; let yourself be slapped,  but do not slap; let yourself be criticized, but do not criticize.  When you do all this, then the Son of God, along with the Father and the Holy Spirit, will dwell in your soul.  Fight the good fight; overlook the deeds of this person, just as our Christ has overlooked your sins. 

On benevolence

Offer a gift of thanks to God: that you are among those who are able to benefit others, instead of those who require assistance; that you do not look to others' hands for help, but they to yours.  Grow rich: not in property alone, but also in piety; not in gold alone, but also in virtue --- or rather in this alone.  Come to be held in higher esteem than your neighbor, by proving yourself more kind.  Come to be a god to the unfortunate, by imitating God's mercy. 

Walk in the way of mercy

Be, therefore, merciful.  How great the reward of mercy we receive under the law of Divine adoption!  Walk in the way of mercy that you may merit this divine blessing.  The kindness of God spreads far and wide.  It rains upon the unthankful; and the fruitful earth does not deny its yield even to the wicked.  The same light of the world shines on impious and God-fearing alike. 

St. Nektarios the Wonderworker

Today is the Feast Day of St. Nektarios the Wonderworker on the Julian calendar.  I would like to offer this beautiful life of St. Nektarios  found on the Full of Grace and Truth blogspot, the Nov 9, 2009 entry:  http://full-of-grace-and-truth.blogspot.com/2009/11/st-nektarios-wonderworker-bishop-of.html

 

Again, I thank the individual who so carefully prepared this entry for our edification.  Wondrous is God in His Saints!  Pres. Candace

 



 

Festal e-card for Panagia's Entry into the Temple

http://www.hamatoura.com/GreetingCard/Greetings.php?subject=Presentation of the Theotokos&link=06TheotokosPresentation-En

Enjoy this beautiful presentation and Xronia Polla to all! 
 Pres. Candace

Note:  You will need to copy the entire link above (not just the underlined portion) in order to view the card. 

On knowing yourself

We cannot know ourselves other than through association with our neighbors--receiving from them reproaches and vexation as a cure for our spiritual wounds; while reproaching ourselves for impatience, but not them.  Instead, we must thank them; for, through them, we came to know--by God's providence--our spiritual infirmity.