Rating: 10|Votes: 1

Running From Pain?

Fr. James Guirguis

Let’s stand with Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane and just imagine what would’ve happened if Our Lord said “Crucifixion is tough, I will run away.”

Rating: 7,8|Votes: 14

A Word on the Day of the Centenary of the Russian Turmoil (+ VIDEO)

A sermon at the Presanctified Liturgy at the Church of the Resurrection of Christ and the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church at Sretensky Monastery, March 15, 2017

Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Egorievsk

God’s lessons are at times very heavy. God’s lessons lie in the fact that He endures the carelessness, cowardice, and infidelity of the people for a long time, but then comes the moment when the careless ones themselves and their descendants must settle their account with bitter but saving trials.

Rating: 1,5|Votes: 2

On the Veneration of the Cross

St. John of Damascus

Every action, therefore, and performance of miracles by Christ are most great and divine and marvelous: but the most marvelous of all is His precious Cross.

The Week of the Veneration of the Cross

Patriarch Tikhon (Bellavin)

This is an article by St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia that has never been republished. It was written when he was still an archimandrite at the Kholm theological seminary, which is now located in the territory of Poland, and published in the periodical, Beseda (Discussion), printed in Warsaw.

Rating: 6|Votes: 2

Understanding the Bible Through the Fathers, Part 3: About the Fathers

Dr. Jeannie Constantinou

We continue with the final part of Dr. Jeannie’s introduction to her Bible studies podcast, “Search the Scriptures”, in which she explains why we trust the Fathers’ interpretations of Scripture, the differences between Orthodox Fathers and those of the Roman Catholics, what it means to understand something “according to the fathers,” and other important points relevant to the study of Holy Scripture.