A Morning Prayer to the Holy Trinity

Glory to You, our God, glory to You.

Glory to You, O Lord our God,

Who always overlooks our sins.

Glory to you.

O Lord our God,

who enabled me to see this day.

Glory to You,

O most-holy Trinity, our God.

I venerate Your ineffable goodness.

I praise Your inexplorable forbearance.

I thank and glorify Your infinite mercy.

For although I deserve

every punishment and chastisement,

You have mercy and do good to me

With myriads of blessings.

Glory to You,

O Lord my God,

for everything.

Amen.

- St. John Chrysostom, from a Translation by Esther Williams, The Path of Prayer (Praxis, 1992).

On the Holy Trinity

Father is the Father, and unbegotten;
Son is the Son, begotten and not unbegotten, for He is from the Father;
Holy Ghost, not begotten but proceeding, for He is from the Father.

-Saint John of Damascus

It is truly meet

It is truly meet to praise the super-divine Trinity, the all-creating, beginning less Father, the co-eternal Word Begotten of Him before the ages with emanation, and the Holy Spirit proceeding from the Father.

-Sunday Midnight Service- 6th Tone

Teaching the Holy Trinity to children

An image that can be used with kids in teaching the Trinity is an ice cube in a pan of boiling water. The ice is solid, the water is liquid and the steam is gas but they are all H2O. All three things are separate, but they are all the same thing and all at the same time in the same place. For very young children, this is a concept they can grasp easily, and although it is simplistic, it is sufficient for them.

From St. John of Damascus

 ”… if we say that the Father is the origin of the Son and greater than the Son, we do not suggest any precedence in time or superiority in nature of the Father over the Son (cf. Jn. 14:28)? or superiority in any other respect save causation. And we mean by this, that the Son is begotten of the Father and not the Father of the Son, and that the Father naturally is the cause of the Son.”

(The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Second Series Vol. IX; Eerdmans pgs. 8-9)

A Prayer of the All-Holy Trinity

The Father is my hope; the Son is my refuge; the Holy Spirit is my protector. O All-holy Trinity, glory to thee.

Thank you…

With this post I just wanted to say something to our Lord.

Thank you for everything! You never abandoned my from my very first moment on the earth till now…

Also I wanted to thank Virgin Mary for her help as well as our Saints.

Please Lord, remember me in Your Kingdom.

I’ll pray for all of us to remember us in our Kingdom. Please pray for me…

Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us

An Orthodox Christian song

Holy Trinity

Prayer of the Spirit

O Holy Spirit, All-powerful God;

Gracious Comforter and Almighty Defender;

Giver of Wisdom, and Light of Revelation;

Who by Thy descent didst bring

the uttermost parts of the world

to the only true knowledge of God:

Do Thou come down even upon us,

who grieve Thee always,

to enlighten and sanctify us,

to heal and comfort

us with Thine abiding comfort.

When God appeared in front of Saint Alexander Svir

About Orthodoxy

The Orthodox is someone universal: what is Orthodox concerns, summarizes, and saves the whole. It leaves nothing outside. Its extent is the infinity of death and its structure the freedom of the Spirit. What is not Orthodox is partial, inadequate and unsteady, provocative and misleading for everyone.
The Church bears the sign of the Cross and of tranquility on its brow (Rev 7:3); it bears the mark of the Trinity as the mainstay of its life and existence.

by Archimandrite Vasileios

Quote from the “Ladder of Divine Ascent”

“The Christian is one who imitates Christ in thought, word and deed, as far as is possible for human beings, believing rightly and blamelessly in the Holy Trinity.”

-St. John Climacus

Advice on praying from Saint John of Krostadt

“When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as always, that God the Trinity looks upon you with eyes brighter than the sun; also all the angels, your own Guardian Angel, and all the Saints of God. Truly they do; for they are all one in God, and where God is, there are they also. Where the sun is, thither also are directed all its rays. Try to understand what this means.”

-St. John of Kronstadt