Hieromartyr Barlaam
Saturday, 23 December 2006 19:41 | Written by Rev. Michael Korolev | 
Orthodox Church in America
Diocese of New England
| St. Macarius the Great |
The soul that really loves God and Christ, though it may do ten thousand righteousnesses, esteems itself as having wrought nothing, by reason of its insatiable aspiration after God. Though it should exhaust the body with fastings, with watchings, its attitude towards the virtues is as if it had not yet even begun to labor for them. |