Fr. Stephen Freeman
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
Providence is not a theory about how things are – it is the very nature of salvation.
Fr. James Guirguis
Rating: 10|Votes: 11
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: 9,2|Votes: 29
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: 9,5|Votes: 15
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: 28
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.
Fr. Ted Bobosh
Rating: 8,5|Votes: 22
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.
Rating: 10|Votes: 12
It seems at first glance that this gospel reading is about fishing. In truth it is about no such thing.It is a test of faith. It is about honestly assessing the obstacles and hindrances that are between us and a life that is dedicated to God.
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 12
The hymns of the Cross suggest it is through the Cross that we are clothed again with a garment of life.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 27
The puzzle is solved when we back away from the English translation of the Hebrew which our current book provides and use the Greek translation of the Septuagint instead, which was almost certainly the version used by whoever chose this psalm for the koinonikon for the day.
Fr. Barnabas Powell
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 28
This feast of St. John invites us not to mistake activism for asceticism, nor abandon spiritual warfare for the false apotheosis of politics. This feast invites us to go into the desert, and prepare in our own hearts a path made straight.
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 19
Christ died for our sins, so we don’t have to pay the price for our sins. However, He died to this world so that we might imitate Him and die to the world with Him.
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 20
The most revealing thing within human history is the appearing of Jesus Christ in our midst. In this coming-among-us, we see the face of God. That face alone can tell us who we truly are.
Dmitry Druzhinin
Rating: 9|Votes: 59
I kept asking the spiritual fathers there: “May I practice yoga? Why is it a bad idea?” While they answered the first question with confidence, they skirted the second one. So I wanted to find out the truth for myself.
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 27
So, what’s going on here? Does Jesus really call the Gentile woman a dog?
Sergei Komarov
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 36
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: 9
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.
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 33
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: 29
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.
