“Though your sins be like scarlet, they may be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isaiah 1:18).

 O, the boundless mercy of God! In His greatest wrath upon the faithless and ungrateful people, upon the people “laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters” (Isaiah 1:4), as “princes [rulers] of Sodom” (Isaiah 1:10) and upon the people who have become as the “people of Gomorrah” (Isaiah 1:10) – in…

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The acts of the enemy Saint – Nicholas Velimirovich

  The struggle is relentless and continuous, external and internal. Sometimes, the enemy acts visibly, through people and things, and at others he attacks people invisibly, through their thoughts. On occasion, he’ll appear openly, with a violent and merciless attack, like an enemy, but at others he’ll be disguised as a friend, who flatters and…

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UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES By St. NikoLaj (Velimirovic), Pascha, 1934; Ochrid, Yugoslavia.

  UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES By St. NikoLaj (Velimirovic), Pascha, 1934; Ochrid, Yugoslavia. Each Christian feast raises hundreds of questions and gives hun¬dreds of answers. The questions are from men, the answers come from God through the feasts. This is especially true with the feast of Christ’s Resurrection. Here He opens for us, with His keys,…

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ABOUT FOOLS, WISER THAN THE WORLD By St. Nikolai Velimirovich. We are fools for Christ’s sake. [1 Cor 4:10]

      ABOUT FOOLS, WISER THAN THE WORLD   By St. Nikolai Velimirovich.  We are fools for Christ’s sake. [1 Cor 4:10]    Thus speaks the great Apostle Paul who in the beginning was guided by worldly wisdom, which is against Christ, until he recognized the falsehood and decay of the wisdom of the world…

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St. Theodosius the Great, the Cenobiarch

 St. Theodosius the Great, the Cenobiarch Commemorated on January 11 Saint Nikolai Velimirovič Theodosius was the first founder and organizer of the cenobitic way of monastic life. He was born in the province of Cappadocia in the village of Mogarissus of devout parents. As a child, he visited St. Simeon the Stylite who blessed him and…

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Saint John the Baptist gave himself up completely to the will of God…Saint Nikolai Velimirovič

  SAINT JOHN THE FORERUNNER AND BAPTIST  Saint Nikolai Velimirovič HOMILY About submission to the Will of God “Your will be done, on earth as in heaven” (St. Matthew 6:10). Blessed be John the Baptist, for he fulfilled the Good News before the arrival of the Good News! Going into the wilderness, he gave himself up completely…

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The Theophany of Our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ, St. Nikolai Velimirovic

“This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased.”( Matthew 3:16-17) Behold! The Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world. The Theophany of Our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ Commemorated on January 6 St. Nikolai Velimirovic When our Lord reached thirty years from His physical birth, He…

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On the only Peace and the Peacemaker. Saint Nikolai Velimirovič

Saint Nikolai Velimirovič HOMILY on the only Peace and the Peacemaker For He is our peace, Who hath made both one (Ephesians 2:14). Between the Israelites and the pagans there lay a wide abyss that no mortal could bridge, or fill in and level off. The Lord Jesus Christ alone was the one who could do…

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The Gift of Faith and Truth Belongs to the Humble.St. Nikolai Velimirovich

The Gift of Faith and Truth Belongs to the Humble  by St. Nikolai Velimirovich  “When the Messiah [Christ] comes, will He perform more signs than this man has done?” (John 7:31).  The Lord Jesus performed miraculous works before all and all saw but not all believed. The people witnessed His miracles and believed in Him….

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St. Nikolai Velimirovich On the Holy Theophany

By St. Nikolai VelimirovichWhen our Lord reached thirty years from His physical birth, He began His teaching and salvific work. He Himself signified this “beginning of the beginning” by His baptism in the Jordan river. St. Cyril of Jerusalem says, “The beginning of the world – water; the beginning of the Good News – Jordan.”…

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