Sergey Mazayev
Rating: 7,8|Votes: 4
According to G K Chesterton, the religious education of a child begins not when his dad speaks with him about God, but when his mom teaches him to be thankful for a tasty cake she has baked. A living sense of gratitude is the driving force of faith, like a clockwork spring.
Fr. Ted Bobosh
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 13
Our modern sensitivities about touch, a necessary society-wide examination of our behaviors, values and morality, do not enter into the picture presented to us in the Luke 8:41-56.
Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky)
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 59
As soon as the world begins to love us we cease to be servants of Christ and become slaves to the world; and this is the most terrible falsification there can be in life.
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 28
Many are bored with hearing the Word of God and only want to hear the word of the world. They read and listen to their political extremist talk show hosts and web pages. They have filled their heads and hearts with demonic thoughts – “the word of the world” – and that is why they behave like the violent and destructive demons of the Gospel.
Rating: 10|Votes: 7
Though the Israelites witnessed what God was doing, they didn’t fully comprehend it. They saw the events but didn’t understand the significance of the events. They saw things happening but didn’t fully realize it was God’s own hand bringing things about. They didn’t see God in the events.
Fr. Stephen Freeman
Rating: 7,6|Votes: 18
It is occasionally the case that we remember precisely where we were at a point in time, in which everything is before or after that moment. It is a Kairos, a particular moment that changes everything.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
Rating: 8,1|Votes: 25
I am not unaware of how unpopular such a project can be today. The unpopularity of the attempt to convince Jews of the truth of Christianity goes back a long way.
Fr. James Guirguis
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 44
Today we hear the story of the rich man and Lazarus. It is a story that ought to make us stand back and take account of our lives and see whether or not we are on the right path. Why should we do this? Because Jesus our Lord offers us a reality that we in the modern world do not really accept.
Nina Pavlova
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 52
“Why don’t you let her go?” I asked the husband. “Can’t you see that she is suffering and wants to depart to God? It will be better for her there.” “What does that mean, ‘better’?” Her husband didn’t understand.
Rating: 9|Votes: 29
Hold on to the Church that cherishes the purity and integrity of the Orthodox faith, and in all the rest things Cast thy care upon the Lord, and He will nourish thee (Ps. 54:53).
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 19
Why does one person become a saint and another choose a different way? Why does one person seek goodness, beauty, truth and life while another runs towards evil things and death? Why do some people live their lives toward God and others spend their lives running from Him?
Priest Sergei Begiyan
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 26
I had a very spiritually turbulent youth. The results of these “adventures” were my spiritual experience and a moral right to judge the spiritual phenomena I lived through.
Rating: 10|Votes: 14
The elders had the special gift of compassionate, sacrificial love. Laying down their lives for all who came, they tried in any way they could to instruct them in the way of truth.
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 21
Providence is not a theory about how things are – it is the very nature of salvation.
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 16
What the Lord has done for this young man, He offers to each of us; He takes our lives and our situations which often seem bleak and He transforms them just as he transformed the casket from a place of death into a place of new life.
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 31
No matter our thoughts on the subject, the general landscape of a certain portion of the world is utterly married to wealth and property. Christians who live in such societies will most likely continue to find ways to accommodate the gospel.
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 17
There is a powerful teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ that is well known as the “golden rule.” Our reading today begins with this golden rule.
Abbot Hilarion (Lupulovic)
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 30
The reality of the Kingdom of Heaven begins when we stop calculating, doing statistics, playing number and word games, analyzing, dividing, and dissecting. The life of the Church begins when we enter into a deeper experience that unites us together.
Rating: 8,4|Votes: 25
They rejected the success of imperial Rome and the “Roman Peace” based in worldly power and might. They understood the ways of the world could be more efficient but they believed the means must be consistent with the end rather than that the ends justified the means.
Archimandrite Gregorios (Estephan)
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 19
Every grace that the bishop receives, he receives primarily because he is an Orthodox bishop and because his Orthodox faith is true. He does not receive grace because his works are glorious, his thoughts are good, and his testimonies are great.
