Like the wooden horse given to the city of Troy, the Cross of Jesus Christ is not at all what it seems. It is dead

Before she was in labor, she gave birth; before her pain came, she delivered a male child.” Isaiah 66:7 The Tradition of the Holy

Your life, beloved, is a war and temptation precipitates each battle. Saint Theophan the Recluse said it this way: “The arena, the field of battle,

St. Peter teaches that: [A]s He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be