Quote for the Day: Memorials

[Shin]

'Such also was Saint Ignatius of Antioch who called himself God-bearer by his bearing in himself the Lord's sufferings. Such was St. Eustratius who cried out in the midst of torments and said, "Now I know that Christ lives in me".

O blessed voices and thrice-blessed souls!

Whose memorials then do we celebrate? Whose nativities do we feast? To whom do we erect sacred churches, whose relics do we venerate? Is it not those of the Martyrs? Those of the Confessors? Those of the Ascetics?

And if here they have been found worthy of so great glory, how much and how great the splendour they would enjoy in the age to come?

Ineffable and unimaginable the reckoning!

This is the fair business, this the blessed exchange: by small struggles and toils to purchase goods that are eternal and without end.

Let us too then imitate them, brethren; let us mingle our blood with the holy blood, for this is possible; for its nature is not dissimilar nor has he changed who says: See, see that I am and I have not changed [Cf. Dt. 32:39 and Mal. 3:6].'

St. Theodore the Studite

[Shin]

This is the fair business, this the blessed exchange: by small struggles and toils to purchase goods that are eternal and without end.

 

Let's keep our eyes on God and Heaven!