June 5, 2019 New Jerusalem: What Exactly Is Meant by This? Question: “Is the Church the new Israel? I heard this idea disparaged as “Replacement Theology.” Also, how are we to understand the term “New…
June 5, 2019 Elder Paisios Explains Why We Need Theology Theology is the word of God, which is apprehended by pure, humble and spiritually regenerated souls, and not the beautiful words of the mind,…
June 5, 2019 Who and When Decided That a Priest Must Not Disclose What He Hears at a Confession? We have to look into the notion of private confession in order to answer this question. Confession in ancient times, i.e., in the early…
June 4, 2019 Children’s Questions: What Does The Bible Say About the Universe and Stars? A Foreword for Parents More often than not, Christian children who go to elementary or junior high school have a hard time reconciling what…
June 4, 2019 Patron Saint’s Day at the Men’s Rehabilitation Center The festive liturgy was served at the church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “The Inexhaustible Chalice”. On that day…
June 3, 2019 Consumerist Attitude: How We Misunderstand What We Believe in Why are men so preoccupied with heaven and hell? Especially, hell? Why are so few preoccupied with Jesus? They have some incoherent notion of…
June 3, 2019 Fr. Philip LeMasters: “We Must Obey in Order to See!” Christ is Risen! Seeing is believing. There are many things in life that we will not accept unless we see them with our own…
June 3, 2019 Particles of Relics of Holy New Martyrs Grand Princess Elisabeth and Nun Barbara Brought to Minsk from New York A reliquary containing the right arm of the Holy New Martyr Grand Princess Elisabeth and a particle of the relics of Nun Barbara will…
June 2, 2019 “Your Joy No Man Taketh From You”: How Are We to Feel Joy of Resurrection in This Cruel World? On Easter Eve, I congratulated all readers of my blog on the Resurrection of Christ. I wrote, “Every year of our God-given life, the…
June 2, 2019 Obedience to the Church: Is It Necessary? Question: “Is an Orthodox Christian obliged to follow all that the Church teaches, or is there some leeway that is left to individual choice?”…
June 2, 2019 “Love Trumps Death!”: a Word of the Spiritual Father of St. Elisabeth Convent Word of the Spiritual Father of St Elisabeth Convent: Hell is a lonely place where there shall be no God – ever. It’s a…
May 31, 2019 Stop Saying “Glory to God for All Things!”: a Personal Story of a Hardened Atheist A testimony offered by Hieromonk Synesios: “A few years ago, I was the parish priest of St. Vasileios church (Piraeus) and was called to…
