United in Prayer - Commemoration of St. Maximus the Confessor (Orthodox Church)
The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. St. Maximus the Confessor
May all of us who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ be delivered from the present delights and the future afflictions of the evil one by participating in the reality of the blessings held in store and already revealed to us in Christ our Lord Himself, who alone with the Father and the Holy Spirit is praised by all creation. Amen (St. Maximos the Confessor).