Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.

If repentance is neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he lives with the weakness of tepidity and the potential of his fall.

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.