August 21, 2018 135 0 The Nature of Humility: A Conversation with Archpriest Demetrius Basalygo Both you and I have a long way to go to humility. We don’t know what humility is, for it is an attribute of the saints. Thankfulness…
August 21, 2018 91 0 Teach Your Children Well: the Greatest Danger Our Children Face Today All parents in every generation worry about their kids, and try to keep them safe. They not only do this by not letting them…
August 20, 2018 317 0 Rejoice, O Full of Grace: The Annunciation and the Role of Virgin Mary in Our Salvation Many people, especially those who are only in the beginning of their spiritual life, often like to think about the “last times”, the coming…
August 20, 2018 91 0 6 Things You Can Learn for 20 years of Being Orthodox Christian Today marks the 20th anniversary of my reception into the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church — the Orthodox Church. I was just 22…
August 20, 2018 447 0 The Rights of an Orthodox Priest I’m finally home from my running around all summer. It feels good to be (mostly) home for the next nine months. One of my trips early…
August 20, 2018 1305 0 15 Quotations of Spiritual Guidance by St. Nicodemus the Hagiorite 1. God is the perfect good that we must love; sin is the utter evil that we must abhor and disdain. God is the…
August 18, 2018 156 0 The Spiritual Life and How to Be Attuned To It We keep preparing for the spiritual life but never embark on it. We are waiting for the best time or the most appropriate day….
August 18, 2018 478 0 Why Is Asceticism so Important in Orthodox Tradition? When God created Adam and Eve, He gave them two commandments: (1) to tend and keep the garden, and (2) to abstain from eating…
August 17, 2018 310 0 The Stairs to Holiness: The Entry of Virgin Mary into the Temple According to the Church tradition, Joachim and Anna, the pious spouses and the parents of Virgin Mary, fulfilled their pledge and devoted their child…
August 17, 2018 130 0 From the Liturgy of the Catechumens to the Liturgy of the Faithful In this commentary series on the Divine Liturgy I would like examine the original transition from the so-called “Liturgy of the Catechumens” (i.e. the…