Archimandrite Haralambos Vasilopoulos
Archimandrite Haralambos Vasilopoulos’ book addresses the question of church attendance and is intended for a wide audience. The author makes a persuasive case that attending church is essential and writes of the benefits of church attendance.
Hieromonk Agafangel (Davlatov)
So as not to feel so ashamed when looking at the icon of the apostles and to have hope and confidence of being shown mercy at the Last Judgment, we need to meet God within us in the same way as the apostles met Him.
Fr. James Guirguis
In God’s truth we see who we are and what we are.
Hieromonk Sebastian (Kuznetsov)
In our deceitful times, let us keep the faith pure, as the Apostles Peter and Paul and other disciples of Christ preached it to us.
Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)
People are telling the truth, and they are persecuted for it. But when they die, after a while, people start saying that they are holy people
Priest Leonid Bartkov
“What is it that you’d like to confess?” - “Well, I think I need to cleanse my karma. Lately my financial flow has been blocked, and my love life has completely stagnated. Could you perform an exorcism?”
It is sometimes glamorized in horror movies as well as in pop culture but possession is a serious and very real phenomenon and nothing to take lightly.
A candle is not a “payment” for the fulfillment of a wish. It is a visible sign of the invisible movement of the soul.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)
Finally, never forget whose you are. We have been purchased at a great price—the Blood of the Crucified God.
Heaven bowed before us that day. God breathed eternity into your soul and called you by name. And this love has no statute of limitations.
We must always remember that God Himself is here, close beside us, extending His invisible hand to help us.
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
This is a tragic description of the fall of the great city of Babylon, which achieved such great glory, but glory anchored in sin and fornication, in apostasy from God.
Whatever you have, whoever you are, wherever you are, all this can come crumbling down in an instant, which is why the human soul can’t be comforted by temporary, human, perishable, transitory things.
We’re reading chapter 18 of Revelation and with God’s help, we’ll try to look at what’s said there.
Priest Tarasiy Borozenets
“The Witch,” “The Nightmare,” and “The Cossack” are three different stories with three different main characters. However, each story revolves around a person who has not fostered love in his heart.
Priest Konstantin Parkhomenko
The Holy Fathers wrote that someone without Christ is in the dark, like a blind kitten; he understands nothing. And when Christ enters his life, He, as the Sun of Righteousness, illuminates all objects, phenomena and events.
Viktor Luzhkov
For a believer, prayer and participation in the sacraments of the Church become powerful resources that remind the soul, quietly but surely, of the following: You are not alone, because God is always with you.
Alexandra Kalinovskaya
Since time immemorial, the teachings of Abba Dorotheos have been an ABC on spiritual life for monastics and pious laypeople alike.
Rev. Dr. Oliver Subotic
Every sin is usually preceded by a simple thought, depending on a person’s particular weakness. If there is no habit of cutting off such thoughts, they gradually grow and develop, eventually enslaving the person.
As the great spiritual father of our time, Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov), observes, all the wartime “slaughters” of biblical Israel depicted in the Old Testament are but a prefiguration of the mental annihilation of sinful thoughts, so that no trace of them remains.
