Month: May 2023

Prayer! It’s the most important thing for our spiritual lives – the thing that will help us to uphold those other two pillars – fasting and almsgiving. Prayer is the way we speak to and with our heavenly Father as well as his beloved Son, the Theotokos and the heavenly hosts. And when should we pray? Always… pray always. This is clear – and so there is the Jesus Prayer, there is…

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.- Matthew 20:16 During evening prayers a few months ago my 6 year old daughter shared feeling repentant for the fact that she had rushed on to something else after her friend had dropped a cup of markers without going to help her clean them up. Firstly – wow. I was impressed at the level of…