October 8, 2024 211 1 The Mysteries of Matthew’s Gospel: Was It Really Written Before the Others? The New Testament opens with the Gospel of Matthew. Does this suggest that the Apostle Matthew wrote his account before the other evangelists? Or…
September 10, 2024 487 4 “Someday You Will Throw Dirt on Me.” I am an Orthodox Christian. Not a good one, though, but I digress. In the past week I’ve been asked by three different people…
September 10, 2024 406 1 St. Panteleimon’s Legacy: Miracles, Medicine, and Martyrdom Saint Panteleimon is widely known as a Christian doctor who suffered martyrdom for his faith. Through the power of prayer, he miraculously restored hopeless…
August 27, 2024 301 0 ‘Make Room for God in Your Life’ an Inside Look at the Belarusian Cross Procession From 18 to 26 August 2024, with the blessing of Belarusian Metropolitan Veniamin, the annual All-Belarusian procession of the Сross walks from Zhirovichi to…
August 26, 2024 252 4 A Christian Is a Person Who Remembers the Purpose of His Existence: 10 Powerful Quotes of Fr. Dimitry Smirnov October 21, 2024 will mark 4 years since the transition into eternity of Father Dimitry Smirnov. Each sermon and talk of Fr. Dimitri was…
August 13, 2024 612 2 Why Did a Saint Doubt His Own Repentance on His Deathbed? The Profound Humility of St Sisoes the Great The Venerable Sisoes the Great, one of the most famous desert dwellers and ascetics of fifth-century Christian monasticism, uttered a phrase before his death…
July 26, 2024 374 0 Why Is There No Joy after Communion? For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again…
July 17, 2024 540 3 Through Hallucinations and Delirium: What Words Will I Be Repeating on My Deathbed? Survival on the Open Sea In the 1960s, a man named Hannes Lindemann undertook an extraordinary experiment to study human capabilities in the face…
July 2, 2024 496 5 Achieving Serenity in Social Bonds: Insights from Bishop Athanasios As long as we live in society, we are challenged to learn how to deal with the contradictions between our own desires and the…
July 2, 2024 262 1 “We Didn’t Hold a Grudge Against God despite the Shock”: A Story of a Terrible Diagnosis, Acceptance, and a Miracle Once, my wife Elena went for a routine scan at 30 weeks pregnant. By then, we already had one healthy child, everything was going…
