Fr. Ted Bobosh
Rating: 8,6|Votes: 9
We have to make our churches full of God’s grace by becoming a living temple because we each are alive in Christ. Then people will not come to the church looking for the corpse of Christ, but to receive His resurrected Body.
Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Egorievsk
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 24
Our boldest hopes and dreams about human happiness, about our own selves, about our close ones, and about the future are all at best naiveté in comparison with what the Lord has prepared for us.
Rating: 6|Votes: 7
But to get to the Light, as we realize liturgically in the Church, we must pass through this painful and most narrow passage – the Gospel.
Peter Davydov
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 5
Which Paschal festivities or services have particularly remained in your memory, and what does Pascha mean to you? We posed these questions to Orthodox clergymen and other believers.
Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 13
Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, one of the main questions, having great importance for each and every one of us, is the question of the afterlife.
Hieromonk Alexis (Trader)
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 17
The verbalization of desired outcomes as well as the steps necessary to make them happen are a necessary part of fighting the negative thoughts that tempt one to procrastinate.
St. Luke, Archbishop of Crimea
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 21
It was very, very, extremely hard for the apostles to believe that the Lord Jesus Christ had risen.
Fr. James Guirguis
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 12
Why do we celebrate this for 40 days? Because the Church is showing us that this is our reality. The resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ changed the whole world and it was an answer to the tragedy and suffering of the innocent One who went to the cross for our sakes.
Fr. Barnabas Powell
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 7
As we leave, the sun's first rays and singing of the birds will proclaim it, too -- that Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life.
Fr. Andrew Lemeshonok
Rating: 8,7|Votes: 9
Fr. Andrew Lemeshonok, the spiritual father of St. Elisabeth Convent, speaks about the Paschal joy and the reasons why we often are not able to feel this joy.
Priest Roman Savchuk
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 34
This story of a woman stricken by family problems shook me to the core.
Rating: 10|Votes: 8
There are times in the life of a Christian when he or she must either say “yes” or “no”. They are two simple words but they hold within them many possibilities.
Archpriest Chad Hatfield
Rating: 10|Votes: 5
This year, as you celebrate the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great on the morning of Holy Saturday, be aware this is the traditional time to baptize those whom we have been praying for throughout the Great Fast.
Elizaveta Kiktenko
Rating: 10|Votes: 11
The Taking Out and Burial Service of the Holy Shroud are the two most important services on Great Friday of Holy Week.
St. Philaret of Moscow
Rating: 8,3|Votes: 10
We offer our readers our English translation of one of the most acclaimed patristic works dedicated to the significance of our Lord Jesus Christ’s Sacrifice on the Cross. This homily was given by Archimandrite Philaret (Drozdov), the future Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow, in the St. Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg on Holy Friday, 1816.
Schema-Archimandrite Zosima (Sokur)
Rating: 8,5|Votes: 6
It is the most fearful thing when we do not realize that people suffer through our shortcomings. Foolish parents interfere with their children’s lives. But if you can’t manage to fix something, why terrorize your children, why torture them?
Fr. Lawrence Farley
Rating: 10|Votes: 7
A number of questions rush to the fore: who are these “they” who saw and worshiped Him? And why did “some doubt”? And moreover, what does all this mean?
Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov
In Christ’s farewell conversation with the disciples after the institution of the Sacrament of Communion, He reveals before them the mystery of His ministry and the essence of His teaching.
Rating: 10|Votes: 13
You will realize the severity of your sins—make haste to the Lord, weep, repent, eat dirt for your sins! The Lord is merciful! But despair leads to Hell. Remember this always.
Archpriest Alexander Shargunov
Rating: 10|Votes: 12
The Church calls upon us this day to pour out upon Him the myrrh of our love.
