“When I Heard That Christ Was Life, I Saw The Light Shining For Me.”

Interview with Hieromonk Diomedes (Lukyanyuk)

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Coming to Orthodoxy

“When I Heard That Christ Was Life, I Saw The Light Shining For Me.”

Interview with Hieromonk Diomedes (Lukyanyuk)

Today Father George will discuss with hieromonk Diomedes (Lukyanyuk) such questions as why people become monks, can obedience be the reason for monks to go into schism, how to avoid the temptation of going into schism, what is monastic renunciation of one’ own will, and whether there is a difference between Greek and Russian monasteries.

Light Shines Even in the Dark Prison of Death: Homily for the Sunday of the Blind Man in the Orthodox Church

Fr. Philip LeMasters

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Light Shines Even in the Dark Prison of Death: Homily for the Sunday of the Blind Man in the Orthodox Church

Fr. Philip LeMasters

It is so easy for people to be blind to the truth about themselves. It is not hard to notice when others do not see the truth about what they do, but it is often quite difficult to notice our own blindness.

Relationships Before Marriage

The Grammar of Family Life, Part 2

Archpriest Pavel Gumerov

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Marriage and Family

Rating: 9,2|Votes: 6

Relationships Before Marriage

The Grammar of Family Life, Part 2

Archpriest Pavel Gumerov

Why is the candy and flowers phase of a relationship so important? What qualities are necessary for a future spouse—husband and wife? What must they discuss with one another? How to deal with the inadequacies of our chosen one?

The Sunday of the Blind Man

St. John Chrysostom

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 10|Votes: 1

The Sunday of the Blind Man

St. John Chrysostom

And He performed a sign which was not adventitious, but one which took place then for the first time: Never since the world began has it been heard that someone opened the eyes of a person born blind. Someone may, perhaps, have opened the eyes of a blind person, but not of anyone blind from birth.

Venerable Euphrosyne the Abbess of Polotsk

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Rating: 10|Votes: 2

Venerable Euphrosyne the Abbess of Polotsk

St. Euphrosyne of Polotsk, the first Eastern Slavic woman to be canonized by the Orthodox Church, stood at the birth of the tangible representation of a spiritual heritage of universal human values.