“Liturgy is not a prayer service.”
Liturgy and Prayer Pt 2

“Liturgy is not a prayer service.”
“Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.”
– Matthew 6:1
“There is nothing you substitute for prayer in this Tradition.”
– Fr Thomas Hopko
“The first thing that must happen if a person is going to practice prayer in the Orthodox Tradition is they must be a member of the Church.”
– Fr Thomas Hopko
“The whole purpose of prayer is to know and to do God’s will. ”
– Fr Thomas Hopko
“The whole creation is created to pray and … the very heart of the creature … is its activity of prayer.”
– Fr Thomas Hopko
“In the Eastern Christian Tradition, we pray to God,
who is the real God, the true God.”
– Fr Thomas Hopko
“The sign of the Cross gives us great strength to repel and conquer evil and to do good, but we must remember to make the sign of the Cross correctly and without haste…”
– Fr. Seraphim Slobodskoy
“…the most important thing is standing before God with the mind in the heart with devotion and heartfelt prostration to Him.”
– St. Theophan the Recluse
“…and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the Evil One”
“Orthodoxy is not so much a matter of the head,
it’s something living and it’s of the heart…”
– Blessed Fr. Seraphim Rose
Precious reminders for every day…