Rating: 7,8|Votes: 15

The Rule of Fasting in the Orthodox Church

Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose)

In answer to numerous requests from readers, the rule of fasting is given for each day of the year.

Rating: 9,7|Votes: 9

The Dread Judgment

St. John of Shanghai

A search for compromise will be the characteristic disposition of men. Straightforwardness of confession will vanish. Men will cleverly justify their fall, and an endearing evil will support such a general disposition. Men will grow accustomed to apostasy from the truth and to the sweetness of compromise and sin.

Rating: 5,3|Votes: 12

He came to himself – what does this mean?The two things we must know to be saved.

Homily on the Prodigal Son

Now we see another aspect of repentance that is so important today, especially in light of what we are going to read and contemplate next week. That is, God receives a man’s repentance. This may seem to be an obvious statement, hardly worth making, but in actuality, many people do not really believe God will receive their repentance, or that they can truly change.

Rating: 10|Votes: 1

Return from Exile (The Sunday of the Prodigal Son)

A man who has never had that experience, be it only very briefly, who has never felt that he is exiled from God and from real life, will never understand what Christianity is about.

Rating: 9,3|Votes: 12

"God rules the world—only God, and no one else." In Memory of Fr. John (Krestiankin)

Archimandrite John (Krestiankin)

“I will tell you from experience that the sooner we accept what God has given us, the easier it will be to bear God’s good yoke, His easy yoke. It becomes heavy from our inner resistance.”