"powerful salves for incurable wounds, effective medicines for invisible pains" - St. Gregory of Narek, Tenets of Prayer
For the lost, the dispossessed, the bereft, Lord, have mercy.
genocide orphan, 1915
Grant Your peace to the world, O Lord, Your refuge to the afflicted, Your health to the sick, and Your Kingdom to those at rest. - Divine Liturgy of the Armenian Apostolic Church
This blog, including all commentary and ideas expressed, is a work in progress.
But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all your works. (Psalms 73:28) "Freely you received, freely give" (Matthew 10:8)
"Impossibilities through Him become possibilities; things unseemly become seemly; things human become divine" (Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation of the Word of God)
"The light of God is the grace that passes into creation through the Spirit, by which we are refashioned to God through faith" (Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on the Gospel of John 3.5)
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