Sergei Komarov
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 28
It seems that the massive manipulation of consciousness is the purchase and sale of human souls in our days. I purpose to test this thought, by looking at the portrait of one of these types of modern merchants.
Rating: 10|Votes: 8
The fall and uprisings of the characters of this book are my falls and uprisings. The commandments given to these characters are given to me.
Fr. Stephen Freeman
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 30
At its deepest level, I came to see that becoming Orthodox was a renunciation of comparisons and the empty efforts to improve the Church.
Archpriest Victor Potapov
Rating: 10|Votes: 14
One must increase the talents received. But how?
Fr. John Whiteford
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 28
St. John the Baptist was a preacher of repentance. He warned that the axe is already laid to the root of the tree, and any tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and caste into the fire. This means that the axe is already in position to start hacking away at the roots, and to chop the tree down, but there is still an opportunity for repentance.
Fr. Philip LeMasters
The Pharisees were experts at missing the big picture, especially of interpreting the Old Testament law in such rigid detail that they ignored the true point of the commandments.
Bishop Gregory (Kaysiya) of Tsalka
Rating: 10|Votes: 16
Unfortunately, we do not always carefully read the words of prayers; we don’t pay attention, and we don’t understand what “Every man is a liar” means. Further down in the same psalm we read: “Precious in the sight of the Lord Is the death of His saints.” It can appear to us as a contradiction.
Archpriest Andrei Tkachev
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 24
Few people like to live in their own time period. “I was born in the past,” they say, “in those times with refinement in a royal court, with long dresses sweeping the floor during a candle-lit minuet.” Of course, few imagine themselves as a serf in the barn.
Fr. Ted Bobosh
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 18
The reading causes consternation for some because it seems to reflect an antiquated worldview that doesn’t coincide with our ideas of gender equality. Additionally, by using the language of being subject one to another it raises concerns about abuse.
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 9
The Pharisees constantly said that the Jews are God's chosen people and that the coming Kingdom of God is intended only for them. The people got so used to this prejudice that it was offensive to them to hear in the parable of the workers in the vineyard...
Rating: 8,6|Votes: 17
Is it possible to be excessively virtuous? The question might seem ridiculous and yet one can find in the Church Fathers comments saying even in practicing virtue moderation is a virtue.
Priest Dimitry Vidumkin
Rating: 10|Votes: 31
In moments of life’s trials, heavy sorrows, and illnesses, we need to feel the presence of God in our lives reliably, clearly, and convincingly. This feeling, together with the understanding of God’s close sympathy to our sorrows should be found living in our hearts, actively strengthening and consoling us.
Hieromonk Herman (Majkrzak)
Rating: 10|Votes: 7
She kept all these things in her heart. St. Luke tells us this twice: Everything having to do with her Son was stored up in the spiritual treasure-house, in the interior sanctuary of Mary’s heart. And what that means, among other things, is that she carries in her heart all the members of the Body of her Son: every person who has been united to Christ, who has put on Christ: she is their Mother, because she is Christ’s Mother.
St. John of Kronstadt
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 15
Brothers, what does it mean that the Church calls the end of Mother of God’s earthly life not death, as we usually refer to this moment in the lives of others, but her Dormition, which is the same as repose, or peaceful sleep; and not only does it not grieve or weep by her coffin, but to the contrary sings joyful, triumphant songs to her departure?
Igumen Andronik (Trubachev)
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 7
If it is necessary, the Lord will reveal the glory of a righteous one on Earth when he passes over to Him in the Heavenly habitations. Thus, the Most Holy Theotokos edifies and protects us by her Dormition.
Monk Raphael (Popov), St. Tikhon of Zadonsk
Rating: 10|Votes: 25
St. Tikhon, bishop of Voronezh and Zadonsk and recluse, was a great Russian spiritual writer. He had to live during the time of the godless “enlightenment” of the eighteenth century, and he saw how the ulcer of unbelief was eating away at people’s hearts and minds. His soul ached for the world, although he had left the world. And his words were directed to the world—which means to all of us.
Fr. James Guirguis
Rating: 10|Votes: 12
How did the master of the vineyard respond to this? He sent even more servants in the hopes that he might get a different result. But it was no use. The result was the same. And finally the master decided to send his own son while he said to himself “They will respect my son.”
Archimandrite Iachint (Unciuleac)
Rating: 9|Votes: 12
Jesus Christ showed us another way to follow that leads to eternal blessedness on the other side of the grave. And this is the path of leading a true Christian life, which can only be achieved by completely changing our behavior.
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 17
Unfortunately, the world has too much religion that does not lead people to transfiguration in holiness. If we think that Christianity provides simply theological ideas, moral precepts, or directions about how to conduct religious services, then we will fail to behold and participate in the glory of our Lord.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
Rating: 10|Votes: 11
We sometimes have the idea that God stands outside His creation, peaking down into it and occasionally interfering with the world He made by temporarily suspending its natural and physical laws to create a miracle.
