The Simple Path to God

Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land! - St. Paisios

"I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was."

"But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart."

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.

However many passions afflict us, they never rise up as many. They only come against us as one.

“Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.”

Then Jesus said unto them, “Verily, verily I say unto you, unless ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, ye have no life in you.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

Homily by Fr. Spyridon Bailey. Recorded at the beginning of Bright Week, 2023.