Priest Aleksandar Sekulic
Priest Aleksandar Sekulic is a cleric of St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Belgrade. He answers some questions and talks about the great Serbian archpastors he has seen in his life.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)
Our measure is Christ. Truth is known through faith. Reason is a great gift from God, but it must be the servant of faith, and not its judge.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
In Christ we are not simply isolated individuals, cogs in the secular machine relentlessly grinding out “progress”, but members one of another, valued and called to truly authentic human existence.
Priest Maxim Yanyshevsky
Having inner integrity is also essential in ordinary life, when you are not afraid to stand out and express your opinions, trying to maintain peace and dialogue with others. This is an indicator of inner maturity and self-sufficiency.
Fr. James Guirguis
St. Gregory speaks of welcoming the Holy Spirit of God into your hearts as you would welcome your beloved friend or an esteemed guest into your own home.
Hieromonk Athanasius (Deryugin)
Through the Holy Eucharist, through Communion, we affirm our unity with Christ, we affirm that we, the Church, are the Body of Christ.
Hieromonk Seraphim (Panich)
If you want to understand what the love of God is, then you cannot do without the Trinity. And the mystery of the Holy Trinity is comprehended—only partially—in the experience of spiritual life with ascetic labors.
Priest Tarasiy Borozenets
The world seems to have thrown the persecuted one overboard. But it is there, overboard, that he suddenly finds himself very close to the Lord, in His Kingdom.
St. Cleopa (Ilie)
He who fears God is above all the sages of this age. Blessed and thrice blessed is he who prepares for the heavenly journey.
Aleksei Tereschenko
It’s easy to think ourselves humble when we’re standing in church surrounded by the fragrance of incense and our brothers and sisters in Christ smile at us. But what is the value of this humility if it falls to pieces when a single stranger yells at us somewhere outside?
The disciples did not know their Master, they did not know Christ—the Savior of the world Who performed so many miracles. Who revealed to them the mystery of God’s coming to earth and the incarnation of God the Word? The Holy Spirit.
Archimandrite Cleopa (Ilie)
When the Heavenly powers saw the Savior removing the gates on high, all the angels blew their trumpets, everyone started singing, and in a chorus of great rejoicing and great singing, Christ ascended and abolished—did not open, but abolished—the gates of Heaven.
Have you heard what Jesus Christ came down for? For the sake of love. Have you heard what He ascended for? To lift us up, the children of man, not in one day, not in two, not in a year, not in a hundred years, not in a thousand or ten thousand years, but all the days of old—that is, as long as the world stands.
Earthly separation means almost nothing if there is a spiritual bond between us and the one we are parting from.
Mikhail Skobelev
The readiness to face the mystery, the inexplicability of suffering that befalls us and that people around us face is the main lesson that we must learn from the Book of Job.
St. Seraphim (Chichagov)
Among believers, miracles are continual—daily and hourly. Some see them, understand them with the mind, and perceive them with the heart; others do not.
Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)
Through the lips of an early ascetic, St. Ignatius answers this question: “Who can be saved even in these complicated circumstances? Only a humble, humble-minded person.”
This is always the path to salvation, conversation and engagement with Jesus Christ.
Schema-Archimandrite Mikhail (Krechetov)
We continue to introduce our readers to the previously unpublished answers of Schema-Archimandrite Mikhail (Krechetov; before monastic tonsure, Archpriest Valerian) to young people.
Our attitude towards others, our behavior at home and at work, even our communication with people who we meet by chance—everything should be the service of God, because everything should be directed towards the commandments of God.
