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New Martyr Valentine Sventitsky Teacher of Continuous Prayer .  He did much for the general defense of the faith. But his main significance was that he called all people to conduct ceaseless prayer, an uninterrupted burning of the spirit. “’Prayer,’ he would say, ‘erects walls around our monastery in the world.’ It was also he who resolved the complex problem of inward evil in the Church. ‘Any sin in the Church,’ he said, ‘is a sin not only of the Church but against the Church’. He also taught that one should not interrupt one’s ceaseless mental prayer while attending church services. “Once after I returned from exile to Moscow in 1925, I chanced to be at Liturgy when Father Valentine was serving. I came in at the end of the service and when he came out with the ambo prayer, I was shocked to see his face. I cannot express my impression other than to say that it was the face of a man having just sacrificed himself as a burnt offering – in truth and pain -, and now deeply...

 Homily on the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos St. John of Kronstadt Today the Virgin standeth forth in the church, and with the choirs of the saints she invisibly prayeth to God for us. (Kontakion of the feast). At the beginning of the tenth century, in year 910 after the birth of Christ, during the reign of the Greek Emperor Lev the Wise and Patriarch Tarasios, in the Blachernae Constantinople church, after the vigil the Mother of God and the angelic hosts appeared to the gaze of two chosen men. Covering the people there with her honorable omophorion, she prayed to her Son and God for their salvation from the enemies that threatened the capital city with destruction, and the people with enslavement and death. Through the prayers of the heavenly Intercessor the foe was routed, and the people saved. In memory of the merciful protection of the Mother of the Lord also over our own fatherland, the Russian Orthodox Church has from ancient times established the yearly feast comme...

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  And so for keeping up continual recollection of God this pious formula is to be ever set before you.  'O God, be attentive unto helping me: O Lord, make haste to help me," *      for this verse has not unreasonably been picked out from the whole of Scripture for this purpose. For it embraces all the feelings which can be implanted in human nature, and can be fitly and satisfactorily adapted to every condition, and all assaults. Since it contains an invocation of God against every danger, it contains humble and pious confession, it contains the watchfulness of anxiety and continual fear, it contains the thought of one's own weakness, confidence in the answer, and the assurance of a present and ever ready help. For one who is constantly calling on his protector, is certain that He is always at hand. It contains the glow of love and charity, it contains a view of the plots, and a dread of the enemies, from which one, who sees himself day and night hemmed in by th...

A Rejoinder to Fr. Basil Gregoriates and an Apology for Breaking Communion with Ecumenist Bishops By Bishop Maximus (Marretta) Read this article HERE