Archpriest Andrew Phillips
Rating: 10|Votes: 4
It happens to every priest from time to time. That is, ghostbusting.
Fr. Philip LeMasters
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 7
If we have any spiritual insight at all, we will see that none of us has mastered God’s requirements, none of us may stand before the Lord bragging that we have it all down.
Bishop Vissarion (Nechaev)
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 11
Why doesn’t the fire of grace given to us not manifest its saving power, does not burn in us, or burns only barely noticeably? It is for the same reason that the material fire in a furnace or oil lamp goes out.
Priest Andrei Kanev
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 21
All over the world these days, pre-holiday madness is becoming more and more intense. For several months now consumer behavior is being imposed on us due to New Year’s Day and Christmas (i.e. Christmas without Christ).
Fr. Lawrence Farley
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 23
We can admire the porcelain figures of the Western images and the hagiographies, but not really love them. To love the saints, we first need to see them as they truly were.
Fr. Ted Bobosh
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 12
But ambition itself is not the sin or the problem. The issue is what are we ambitious to do?
Archpriest John Whiteford
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 32
Fasting is an essential aspect of the Christian life, and it is one thing that, unfortunately, is becoming for the majority of Christians in the world an increasingly foreign concept.
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 17
In the eyes of our corrupt world, a life of conspicuous self-indulgence may make someone look like a great success. Slavery to the passions, however, is hardly a path for fulfillment for those who bear the image and likeness of God.
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 18
We may well ask ourselves then - which world do we inhabit? Do we inhabit a world of evil or a world of God? And which world therefore inhabits us? Which is our choice?
Metropolitan Joseph
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 10
Make ready, O Bethlehem, for Eden hath been opened for all. Prepare, O Ephratha, for the tree of life hath blossomed forth in the cave from the Virgin; for her womb did appear as a spiritual paradise in which is planted the divine Plant, whereof eating we shall live and not die as Adam. Christ shall be born, raising the image that fell of old.
Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky)
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 34
His Beatitude answers the questions of his flock about the fast, the Church, and the faith.
Fr. Barnabas Powell
Rating: 7,6|Votes: 46
I just completed an announcement for my parish bulletin that I never wanted to write. It explains that I’m no longer leaving the church doors unlocked when present for my office hours.
Igumen Nektary (Morozov)
Rating: 10|Votes: 27
Speaking about love of money in our days is just the same as describing hot weather in summer. Everyone suffers torment from the scorching heat in July, and it seems there is no way to hide from it, though there are air conditioners, fans, shady places, and cold water. Very few people like the blazing sun, while the love of money captures our hearts and enslaves us. And this may happen even to those who have no money in their pockets…
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 26
What cleanses our heart is humility, which is the goal not only of Lent and asceticism but of the sacrament of confession as well.
Rating: 10|Votes: 25
In this article, priests of the Russian Orthodox Church offer their thoughts on what this time represents for us, how to worthily greet the feast of the Nativity of Christ, and what to pay attention to first of all in the spiritual life.
Archpriest Victor Potapov
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 21
The art of freeing ourselves from all that interferes with our communion with God is called asceticism, something that is most sharply manifested in monastic podvig, spiritual struggle.
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 16
We continue with our apologetic project of commending the Christian Faith to our Jewish neighbours, and today look at the life of Jesus as the fulfillment of the prophetic elements in the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms.
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 11
The parable of the Good Samaritan teaches us that any human individual, any man - be he sick, poor, a thief, an enemy - is higher in value than an abstract idea of good, an abstract idea of the common, public welfare, an abstract idea of churchliness, generally accepted traditions, regulations and canons.
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 10
As we move into the Nativity Fast, it is a good time for us to examine our consciences to see what is in our hearts, and to know of what we need to repent in order to follow Christ.
Priest Andrei Miziuk
Rating: 10|Votes: 32
But the Lord often corrects our course of life quite contrary to our expectations for the future. A few years later Alexander, Anna’s husband, was killed in a horrible fatal car accident.
