St Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery

"Don’t go backwards in the spiritual life! If you decide to start the Jesus Prayer, you have to choose some time out of the twenty-four hours. It’s acrobaticsget up at night to pray; if that doesn’t work outat dawn, or in the evening, or in the afternoononly, it has to be done with the nuances that St. Joseph taught ussitting in the dark, and so on. It’s very important. Of course, you need a mentor and guidance for this, but such guides exist, thank God. And don’t step back, don’t toss it aside. It’s better to do a little every day than to do a lot just once a week. Consistency is very important. " (Archpriest Theodore Gignadze on the teachngs of St. Joseph the Hesychast)

Remember what man is. He is the image of God, a child of God, a Christian, an inheritor of the Kingdom, a member of Christ. We must therefore esteem every man, although he may bear in his soul the wounds of sins. The woundsare wounds ; they are made by the Devil and sin, but still the image is the image of God. (St John of Kronstadt, ‘My Life in Christ’)

I believe in a continuous conversion. It lasts a lifetime. It is the very process of transition from death to life. I feel I could follow this path forever and ever. I have done so much, working in partnership with Divine grace, so that God could help me make the decision to embrace Orthodoxy! (Fr John Downie, convert to Orthodoxy in orthochristian.com)

Even if prayer is common for us, it always demands preparation. What is more common for those who can read and write than reading and writing? However, sitting down to read or write, we do not immediately begin, but we calm ourselves before beginning Even more so preparation for the work of prayer is necessary before praying, especially when what we have been doing before praying is of a totally different nature from prayer. (St Theophan the Recluse, Homily, on prayer)

For this reason righteousness and peace are now far departed from you, inasmuch as every one abandons the fear of God, and is become blind in His faith, neither walks in the ordinances of His appointment, nor acts a part becoming a Christian,1 but walks after his own wicked lusts, resuming the practice of an unrighteous and ungodly envy, by which death itself entered into the world.... (St Clement of Rome ‘Epistle to the Corinthians’) See more

Divine Liturgy - October 25th - St. Tikhon's Monastery Submit names for commemorating here: https://www.sttikhonsmonastery.org/molebenform St. Tikhon's appreciates your support of the Monastery community and the cost of live-streaming. Please help and donate here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/

Any other choice of cohabitation outside of a Church marriage is a perversion of the Law of God and is in clear contradiction to what the Church believes and what Christ teaches. The Church cannot justify cohabitation, despite the fact that modern progressive and godless society widely supports and even legalizes new types of cohabitation in order to justify sin and recognize it as a law and norm. (Metropolitan Timothy of Bosra in pravoslavie.ru)

Vigil - October 24th 2020 - St. Tikhon's Monastery Submit names for commemorating here: https://www.sttikhonsmonastery.org/mole St. Tikhon's appreciates your support of the Monastery community and the cost of live-streaming. Please help and donate here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/

According to the Holy Fathers, diseases are given for spiritual purification and the salvation of the soul. It is often through a disease that a man finds his way to God. We may not always know the providence of God in our lives, why a this or that trial was sent to us. But our blessed duty is to change our sinful lives for the better and spiritually grow in Christian virtues. (Metropolitan Onuphry of Ukraine, October homily on COVID)

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You see the Lord sacrificed, and laid upon the altar, and the priest standing and praying over the victim, and all the worshippers empurpled with that precious Blood Oh! What a marvel! What love of God to man! He who sits on high with the Father is at that hour held in the hands of all, and gives Himself to those who are willing to embrace and grasp Him. (Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, ‘The Orthodox Church’)

The St. Tikhon Choir - Benedict Sheehan Liturgy Guided Listening A special presentation by Benedict Sheehan as he highlights key aspects of his transcendent setting of the Divine Liturgy. He will expound on the mission to create an aspirational American Orthodox choral tradition at the highest artistic level. #sheehanliturgy

"The unity of the Church of Christ and the unity of the Eucharistic Sacrifice did not require a uniformity in the celebration of that Sacrifice. The liturgical liberty, the variations and local differences were not only tolerated but were being constantly elaborated upon. What is more important, they manifested the Catholic nature of the Church." (Fr David F. Abramtsov, 'Brief History of Western Orthodoxy)