Prayer Corner

Saints, Feasts, and Readings for 2/21/2025

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Epistle Reading:

2 John 1:1-13

Gospel Reading:

Mark 15:22-25,33-41

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"When you pray, try to let the prayer reach your heart; in other words, it is necessary that your heart should feel what you are talking about in your prayer, that it should wish for the blessing for which you are asking.... Observe, during prayer, whether your heart is in accord with that which you are saying." - St. John of Kronstadt

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First Hour Prayer

O Christ the True Light, which enlightens and sanctifies every one coming in to the world, let the light of Your countenance be signed on us, that in it we may see the unapproachable Light: and guide our steps to the doing of Your commandments, through the prayers of Your most pure Mother and all Your saints. Amen.

Sayings From The Church Fathers

The Lord seeks a heart filled to overflowing with love for God and our neighbor; this is the throne on which He loves to sit and on which He appears in the fullness of His heavenly glory. 'Son, give me thy heart,' He says, 'and all the rest I Myself will add to thee,' for in the human heart the Kingdom of God can be contained

- St. Seraphim of Sarov, from The Acquisition of the Holy Spirit: Chapter 7, Little Russian Philokalia Vol. 1; St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood pgs. 104-105

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Occupy yourself with reading with a calm spirit, so that your mind may be constantly raised up to contemplation of the wondrous acts of God, lifted, as it were, by some hand outstretched to it. " Abba Evagrius

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