Fr. Lawrence Farley
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
So the question for us as we begin to read a letter that was written from the slammer, as it were, is, “Are we prepared to forfeit our respectability for Jesus Christ?” That’s the challenge.
Fr. Philip LeMasters
Rating: 10|Votes: 19
Regardless of the form that darkness takes in our lives, we must not despair. Instead, we must use our weakness and pain as reminders to open ourselves to the light of Christ as best we can.
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 18
And you, wise reader, in hearing about the evil eye understand it to be not the eye in the head, but the evil thoughts in the unenlightened heart.
Denis Akhalashvili
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 25
Suddenly you begin to think that, in actuality, nothing in the world belongs to you. Because the moment can come when you’re gone, and all this is left to others. At first this frightens you, but then you just start to pray.
Fr. James Guirguis
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 17
In every person’s life there are moments where making a certain choice or decision will forever change the course of their life.
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
Rating: 10|Votes: 8
And I bring you a gift to express my great love for you. What great significance this has—to tell someone else with all your heart: “May you have many years of good health, and may God bless you!”
Fr. John Whiteford
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 30
In the wake of another cold-blooded school shooting, this time by a teenager who had been baptized in the Orthodox faith, rector of the Church of St. Jonah in Spring, Texas (ROCOR) Fr. John Whiteford talks about a sore them—how to keep ourselves going in the spiritual life and how to impart this to our children, against the growing tide of anti-Christian cultural norms.
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 63
There is a lot wrong with the Biblical interpretations of the Christian Zionists. Since this is a blog and not a book, I will mention only three of them.
Fr. Barnabas Powell
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 30
I've been thinking thus about one of the most amazing people I've met: an Indonesian who was called to become an Orthodox priest and missionary to his land.
Fr. Andrew Lemeshonok
Rating: 8,4|Votes: 5
When the Lord's grace touches a person and he understands that it is his personal meeting with God, it is just impossible to express with words what is going on in his soul at this moment. This event outperforms any human feeling.
Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky)
Rating: 10|Votes: 33
In this brief interview, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine speaks on fasting, modern man, and role models.
Hieromonk Nikon (Parimanchuk)
Rating: 10|Votes: 10
A multitude of testimonies to her help have been preserved to our present day.
Bishop Alexander (Mileant)
Rating: 10|Votes: 20
What is the meaning of the Orthodox reverence of the holy servants of God? Indeed should we turn to saints for help, or is it enough to pray only to the Lord God?
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 24
When some people say that they don’t want to take their children to church, let alone Sunday school, because they are allegedly forced there to complete difficult tasks, to keep fasts and stand through long services, I tell them this story.
Archimandrite Andrei (Konanos)
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 116
Many ask us priests, “What is your opinion on teenagers?” Around 20 years ago I used to teach high school classes, and I was also asked that question.
Hieromonk Irenei (Pikovsky)
Rating: 10|Votes: 5
We call the Holy Spirit “upon us and upon these gifts set forth” in order to accomplish the transfiguration of life, that life would acquire incorruptibility, that the gifts themselves and every man partaking of them would be transformed into a new creation, not subject to death—transformed into the Body of Christ.
Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 8
Everything that we have now in the Holy Church—all of its spiritual riches, all the grace coming from its prayers and Sacraments—all of it originates from the holy day of Pentecost.
Fr. Ted Bobosh
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 17
Jesus never taught us “Be good.” He never said those words.
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 18
The Council of Nicea ended a long time ago (in 325) and Arius is very, very dead. Why do we still make such a big deal about the Council and commemorate it at such an important time—i.e. right after Pascha and before Pentecost?
Fr. Stephen Freeman
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 50
Modernity is not about how to live rightly in the world, but about how to make the world itself live rightly.
