Fr. George Brooks
As we go through these Sundays of prepartion for Great Lent and enter Great Lent, we start building a sense of forgiveness in our hearts for other people—for people we don't even know, for people we will encounter this coming week and the weeks to come, strangers, drivers who irritate us on the highway, co-workers, and all the other people that God has put before us to give us a test—to see if we can truly love like He does.
Dimitry Sokolov-Mitrich
The “Chaotic Pendulum” is a very funny thing. When you throw it off balance it flounders comically in space like a mad geometrical cripple, or a supremacist construction. It’s an enchanting sight, like the gaze of a boa constrictor.
Rating: 6,7|Votes: 19
St. Nina was born in Cappadocia and was the only daughter of pious and noble parents—the Roman general Zabulon, a relative of the great martyr St. George, and Susanna, sister of the patriarch of Jerusalem. When St. Nina was twelve years old, she traveled with her parents to the holy city of Jerusalem.
St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)
Rating: 7,3|Votes: 3
Brethren! In order to believe in our Lord Jesus Christ repentance is needed; in order to remain in this salvific faith, repentance is needed; in order to be successful in it, repentance is needed; in order to inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, repentance is needed.
Gabe Martini
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
It’s possible that many Orthodox Christians of the diaspora underestimate how much our culture influences, shapes, and even controls us. Orthodox Christianity in the English-speaking world has gone through some interesting times in recent memory, to say the least. But all in all, we are still in the infancy stages, in need of further asceticism, stability, and maturity.