English Blog, orthodox quotes and passages by Saints and Elders

• by Le Troupeau Bénit
• Aug 18, 2020

Monastery's Annual Feast Day 2020

Join us in the celebration of the leavetaking of the Dormition of the Theotokos honoring our Mother of God the Consolatory Saturday August 22nd 20...

• by Le Troupeau Bénit
• Aug 18, 2020

Monastery's Annual Feast Day 2020

Join us in the celebration of the leavetaking of the Dormition of the Theotokos honoring our Mother of God the Consolatory Saturday August 22nd 20...

• by Le Troupeau Bénit
• Aug 15, 2020

Blessed Feast of the Dormition!

Neither the tomb, nor death could hold the Theotokos, who is constant in prayer and our firm hope in her intercessions. For being the Mother of Lif...

• by Le Troupeau Bénit
• Aug 15, 2020

Let us imitate our Most Holy Mother of God by Elder Ephraim of Arizona

• by Le Troupeau Bénit
• Aug 15, 2020

Let us imitate our Most Holy Mother of God by Elder Ephraim of Arizona

Let us imitate her direct obedience, her endearing humility, her secret, internal, spiritual effort, her ardent prayer, the constant watchfulness w...

• by Le Troupeau Bénit
• Aug 15, 2020

“My dear sweet Mother!”, Saint Joseph the Hesychast

All the saints wrote many praises to our Panagia. But I, the poor one, have found no words more elegant or sweet to describe her, than to cry out t...

• by Le Troupeau Bénit
• Aug 15, 2020

Saint Joseph the Hesychast Feast Day August 16th 2020

Saint Joseph the Hesychast first feast day, August 16th 2020.

• by Le Troupeau Bénit
• Aug 06, 2020

Rejoice, O unwedded Bride!

Rejoice, pillar of fire that guides those in darkness.Rejoice, shelter of the world that is wider than the cloud was.Rejoice, O unwedded Bride ! Fr...

• by Le Troupeau Bénit
• Aug 06, 2020

The gateway to the Kingdom of God is the Cross...

[...] The Transfiguration of Christ is the preparation for the Cross. And the Cross of Christ is the starting-point of His glory as a person. With ...

• by Le Troupeau Bénit
• Aug 06, 2020

Blessed feast of the Transfiguration of our Lord!

Thou wast transfigured on the mount. O Christ God, revealing Thy glory to Thy disciples as they could bear it. Let Thine everlasting light shine up...

• by Le Troupeau Bénit
• Aug 04, 2020

Most Holy Theotokos save your people!

"Come, deliver us out of dangers, O pure Theotokos, since you are mother of deliverance, and of the peace which surpasses all human reasoning." Fr...

• by Le Troupeau Bénit
• Aug 02, 2020

The purity of our Panagia, St. Joseph the Hesychast

I cannot describe to you how much our Panagia likes chastity and purity. Since she is the only pure Virgin, she wants and loves everyone to be like...