Words from the Saints -- May 29, 2025
Gerald Largent
"Blessed is he who prays with fervor, for the devil never approaches him." --St. Ephraim the Syrian
"He did not merely say, ‘Let there be sight,’ but made clay and anointed the eyes--showing that He is the same who formed man from the earth in the beginning." --St. John Chrysostom
"He who tries to conquer his own will by means of obedience and prayer is following a wise ascetic method. His renunciation of external things indicates his inward struggle." --St. Mark the Ascetic
"That blind man washed the clay from his eyes in the pool of Siloam and came back seeing. So too are our hearts washed in the waters of Baptism, that we might behold the Light of the world." --St. Augustine of Hippo
"The work of God is manifest in the healing of the man born blind, for God forms man not only in body, but renews him unto life by His own hand." --St. Irenaeus of Lyons
"In God's Church, simple, faithful and kind souls are like children in the House of the Heavenly Father. Here they are free and are totally at ease." --St. John Kronstadt
"The devil, with all his powers, 'walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour' (I Pt. 5:8). So you must never relax your attentiveness of heart, your watchfulness, your power of rebuttal or your prayer to Jesus Christ our God. You will not find a greater help than Jesus in all your life, for He alone, as God, knows the deceitful ways of the demons, their subtlety and their guile." --St. Hesychios the Priest