Day 17 (3rd Wednesday of the Great Fast)

“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” (John 15:4-5)

“When your heart inclines to evil, and the evil one begins to undermine your heart, so that it is completely removed from the rock of faith, then say to yourself inwardly:

‘I know of my spiritual poverty, my own nothingness without faith.

I am so weak, that it is only by Christ’s name that I live and obtain peace, that I rejoice and my heart expands, whilst without Him I am spiritually dead, I am troubled, and my heart is oppressed; without the Lord’s Cross I should have been long since the victim of the most cruel distress and despair.

Only Christ keeps me alive: and the Cross is my peace and my consolation.’”

St John of Kronstadt

3rd Wednesday of the Holy Great Fast

• (Day 17) Know your spiritual poverty
• (Day 16) Don’t be deceived by praise (ii)
• (Day 15) Don’t be deceived by praise (i)
• (Day 14) Sunday of the Temptation in the Wilderness
• (Day 13) Love your enemy
• (Day 12) Serve others without partiality
• (Day 11) Serve others
• (Day 10) Love your neighbor as yourself (ii)
• (Day 9) Love your neighbor as yourself
• Day 8) Through your love for God
• (Day 7) Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness
• (Day 6) Give your heart to God
• (Day 5) Make God Himself your way
• (Day 4) How? Seek to grow in the likeness of God
• (Day 3) How? Unite with God through prayer 
• (Day 2) How? Fulfill the will of God
• (Day 1) How? Be devoted to God
• How To Live a Holy Life (The Holy Great Fast 2018)