Jeff Mwaura

28/06/2026

26/06/2026

The doctrine of the Orthodox Church is based on Holy Tradition. The tradition of the Church is the life of the Church in the Holy Spirit. It includes the Scriptures, the dogmatic decrees of the ecumenical councils, the teaching of the Church Fathers, the Canons, the Service Books, the Divine Liturgy, the iconography of the Church….

Orthodox Church is known for its changelessness, we do not get new ideas from the top of the head to be based on. The doctrine of the Church preserves the original apostolic faith and serves as foundation and guidance for orthodox Christians in life.

St. John of Damascus says, “We do not change the everlasting boundaries which our fathers have set, but we keep the Tradition, just as we received it” (On the Holy Icons, II, 12).

28/03/2026

The soul that surrendered to the will of God easily can bear all trouble and disease, because even in illness it prays and looks up to God: "Lord, You see my illness and know how powerless and sinful I am. Help me endure and give me strength to thank You for everything. And the Lord will ease the disease and the soul will feel His help and it will rejoice in it and thank Him. If trouble comes to you, think: "The Lord sees my heart, and if it pleases Him, it will be well for me and others". That's how peace will always reign in your soul. And if someone shouts: "It shouldn't be that way, it's not good that it is this way", he will never have peace in his soul, even if he prayed and fasted a lot. The Lord loves us and therefore we should not fear anything, except sin, because because of it the grace of God is lost. That's when the devil persecutes the soul like the wind chases smoke or a dry leaf.

St Silouan the Athonite

19/03/2026

Every day, we have to prepare ourselves to bear our cross, say Holy Church teachers. “When we go to work, to our obedience, to pray, we will take up our little cross and follow our Bridegroom. Today, we will bear this cross; next time, we will bear another cross”.
St. Paisios of Mount Athos explains,
“The Good God provides each of us with a cross to bear – analogous to the strength of each – not to punish us, but to enable us to climb from that cross to Heaven – because in essence, the cross is a ladder to Heaven.” From Spiritual Councils IV: Family Life

17/03/2026

"Modern man comes to the Church not as a patient, but as a customer.

“I like it,” “I don’t like it,” “it was too long,” “he spoke too loudly,” “I didn’t feel anything.”

This is how a person judges the service, as if it were a product. He no longer comes to be healed; he comes to be satisfied.

If the sermon wounds him, he leaves.

If he is told to change, he becomes unsettled.

If he is asked to be patient, he looks for another place.

He has forgotten that the Church is not a theatre, nor a spiritual restaurant. It is a hospital, and you do not go to a hospital to be applauded, but to be cut open, to be cleansed, to be healed.

Whoever enters the Church without humility leaves without healing.

Grace does not work according to a person’s preferences, but according to their wound.

But modern man no longer wants his wound to be touched, because it hurts. He wants comfort without truth, forgiveness without repentance, communion without confession.

And when he does not receive what he wants, he says that “he no longer feels anything.”

It is not the Church that has grown cold — the heart has closed.

The hospital is the same.

The doctor is the same.

The treatment is the same.

But the patient refuses the operation and is surprised that the illness remains.

06/03/2026

Keep on reflecting on your relationship with God

Fasting is a deep mean of spiritual life in the Orthodox Church. “Not only should we observe moderation with food, but we must also abstain from every other sin so that just as we fast with our stomach, we should fast with our tongue. Likewise, we should fast with our eyes; i.e. not look at agitating things, not allow your eyes freedom to roam, not to look shamelessly and without fear. Similarly, arms and legs should be restrained from doing any evil acts.”
Saint Dorotheus of Gaza