ON ENVY (ST. BASIL THE GREAT) (Wednesday, January 14) “This passion [envy] is first and foremost a personal detriment to the one guilty of it

MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM (Tuesday, January 13) “…They said, ‘Moses permitted to write a certificate of divorce, and to send away.’ And Jesus

CUTTING IT OUT (Monday, January 12) “If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life

DOES THE DEVIL RULE THE WORLD? (Saturday, January 10) “Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the

RECEIVING ONE ANOTHER AS LITTLE CHILDREN (Friday, January 9) “Then He came to Capernaum. And when He was in the house He asked them, ‘What

OUT OF EGYPT I CALLED MY SON (Thursday, January 8) “Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in

THE ‘SCANDAL’ OF DIFFERENT CHURCH-CALENDARS (Wednesday, January 7) “Today the Virgin gives birth to the Transcendent One, / and the earth offers a cave to

GIDEON’S ‘SIGN’ of the FLEECE on the THRESHING-FLOOR (Monday, January 5) One of the 13 Old Testament readings at Vespers on the eve of Theophany