Christ Breaking the Bonds of Animal Suffering. Luke 14:5

 

Animals are innocent

 Animals are innocent and serve God better and more purely than we do. Many Saints had grace from the Holy Spirit and were granted the gift of communicating with the animals as we were meant to in paradise before the fall of mankind. We all also should learn by watching and caring for God's creatures how to serve Him better.

Elder Ephraim of Philotheou (Athos) at the barn of the Holy Monastery of the Theotokos of Consolation in Lachute, Quebec (Canada)

 

contentment is found at the lords feet

live like the birds

 

gentleness to animals

 “... surely we ought to show kindness and gentleness to animals for many reasons, and chiefly because they are of the same origin as ourselves.”

~ St. John Chrysostom

when a prayer takes longer than expected

Dogs

 

A dog is better than me,

he has love and does not judge

abba xanthios

A dogs life farther

 

Father Seraphim Rose of Platina, himself a convert to Orthodoxy, was once asked to compose a “Manual for Orthodox Converts”. In his notes for such a manual, he jotted down the following “convert pitfalls”, or what he called “obstacles in the Orthodox mission today” – or, shortly, “convertitis”.