“Above all, I instruct you to keep the Holy Faith unblemished and untouched by any slander, as we received it from the Holy Fathers, without mixing it with foreign and different teachings. Stand firm, hold on to the traditions you have heard and seen in me. Branch out neither to the right nor to the left, but go along the royal way…”
In the past few weeks, parents lost their children while praying a mass in Minnesota. Christians in Palestine starved to death. The Kirk Family this week had a tremendous cross placed upon them with the shooting of their husband and father. While it is difficult now, these families will be able to endure this present evil, because of the one thing they all have in common…an unwavering love of God, and the faith that these crosses will lead to Glory. Until they get to that point, we pray that the cross of Christ and the peace of the Church will sustain them.
A good mother is one that not only teaches her children with words…but rather leads them by example. The Disciples loved and honored the Theotokos, not for of the words she offered to them, not simply because she was the Mother of God, but because of how she lived her life…in complete faith and in humble obedience to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
