Priest Ioan Istrati I am sad to see the attempts of some lukewarm priests to sweeten, to beautify and paint the dead who smells awfully. This plague did not come out of God`s mercy, it is the infinite suffering of the Most Pure One, Who cries and leaves us in our outrageous sins, of people […]
A man had many children but he was very upset because his offsprings quarreled behaving maliciously. And they went on doing this repeatedly, meaning there was always dissension between them. They caused such a great pain to their father who wanted to see them living peacefully and in harmony. Do you want to tell you […]
Priest Ioan Istrati Probably the greatest periscope from the Gospels, which moves me to tears, is the parable of the journey to Emmaus. Two disciples, Cleopas and Lucas are going to a village called Emmaus in the in the Sunday afternoon of the Lord`s Resurrection. They were burdened by the grief of losing their Master. […]
Priest Ioan Istrati The Matins Service from the Holy Monday of the week of the holy sufferings of our Savior Jesus Christ is held on Sunday evening at the beginning of the liturgical day. The cult`s texts of this Matins gravitate around the cursing of the fruitless fig tree by Christ who was on his […]
Priest Ioan Istrati Midday, unbearable heat, the Son of God, exhausted of the journey and a woman gone unexpectedly at high noon to take out water. Maybe because of shame or for another reason, she did not go in the morning like all the Samaritan women to the spring but at high noon, when the […]
Priest Ioan Istrati It was 10 years ago. I was a priest at the church Talpalari from Iași. A very distinguished lady living very close to the church called me to her house. Her mother, of 80 years old, was in a comma, she hadn`t eaten or drunk anything for four days. They had called […]
His High Holiness Ignatie (Bishop of Huși) « My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them […]
During confession a young man asked his spiritual father: `Father, I feel my soul is burdened by sins. How can I be again in peace, when I know I wronged? `Son, the man must never lose his hope. Even if we sinned, God will forgive our mistakes but with a condition: to repent. To repent […]
How many times the man, when he wants to begin a work for the love of God, does not wonder saying: `Will I find rest in this work? How will I be able to walk on this path of virtue without toiling? Is it there anything which not to cause exhaustion to my body? Look […]
