August 26, 2019 Pouring Water on Acid: The Sad Consequences of Spiritual Ignorance I remember, as an undergraduate student in a university chemistry laboratory, a fellow student who was having tremendous difficulty understanding the basic principles of…
August 24, 2019 What Is Love? “I love your new SUV!” “I love this restaurant!” “I love that movie’s soundtrack.” Countless times, I have expressed these types of sentiments. Perhaps…
August 24, 2019 Saint John Climacus on Prayer ‘On Prayer’ is the 28th chapter of St John Climacus’ ‘Ladder of Divine Ascent’, a treatise comprised of 30 chapters (steps) concerning the spiritual…
August 23, 2019 Why Hold Processions? The tradition of religious processions has a very ancient history. It begins, in a sense, as early as the Old Testament times. In essence,…
August 23, 2019 The First Sermon of Christ Any classical public speaking training would tell the aspirant lecturer to always start with a little warm up for the audience‚ in order to get…
August 22, 2019 “He Who Humbles Himself Never Loses!” The Gospel tells us about tares sown among wheat. The tares were weeds that looked very much like wheat. Reapers tell the Master, “Let…
August 22, 2019 My Cenacle of Love. Remembering the Beginning Memories at the break of the Anniversary day. ‘My Convent this’… ‘Our Convent that’… I hear people using possessive case with the word all the…
August 22, 2019 Practical Tips: the Most Powerful Prayer and Fast for Travelers Our body lives by eating food. Similarly, our souls consume information coming from the senses. There can be not only physical but also informational…
August 21, 2019 Caressing the Head of a Murderer: a Story of True Love We live in two different worlds at the same time. When we come to the Church to work and worship our Lord, we enter into…
August 21, 2019 What Do We Expect Heaven to Be Like? What an exciting Question! I was once with a 15- year-old boy who was dying in the middle of the night after a long…
August 21, 2019 Why Aren’t Women Allowed In The Altar? Why do priests keep women out of the altar? Why are there places in the church that are forbidden for women? Is a woman…
August 20, 2019 The Icon of Sophia, the Wisdom of God (of Kiev) There are a number of icons depicting Sophia, the Wisdom of God, in the Russian Orthodox Church, namely, in Kiev, Novgorod, Vologda, Tobolsk, Moscow,…
