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New Year has come. We are happy and hope it will be a good year for us. I hope too. I hope we will change, we will become better than we were. We will become good people. We will love our neighbors as ourselves. "What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead". We must change if we want to have happy future. Happy New Year!

Pentecost 13  If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2  If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. 3  If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. 4  Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, 5  doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6  doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7  bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8  Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it wi...

The Holy Martyrs Saint Sophia and her Daughters Faith, Hope and Love. Today is the orthodox holiday "Faith, Hope, Love and their mother  Sophia".  My mother's name is Hope. She had two sisters Faith and Love. I want to say my mom. I love you.