Enjoy Praying Endlessly (Saint Nephon, Patriarch Of Constantinople And Metropolitan Of Wallachia)

"In all days, it is appropriate to have God and The Most Pure Theotokos in your heart because all good things come from The Lord and His Most Pure Mother to those who hope in Them. Enjoy praying endlessly and your heart will be illumined and it will see God."

-From The Holy Hierarch Nephon II Of Constantinople And Metropolitan Of Wallachia, (1434-1508). Feast day: August 11th.
-Personal rendering from the Romanian by Ioan (John) Calineac.

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