May 16, 2019 “When the Elder Told Me I’d Become a Monk, I Thought: What a Nightmare!” Archimandrite Ephraim, the Superior (Abbot) of Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos, speaks about the special quality of the spiritual life on the Holy…
May 16, 2019 Boris and Gleb: the First Russians Canonized in the History of the Church Holy Right-Believing Princes Boris and Gleb were the first Russians to be canonized by the Church. To a modern-day person, the actions that made…
May 15, 2019 “Priest Is Always Right?” A Difficult Question of Communication with Priests A priest refused to give communion to a one-year-old baby who had drunk some milk two hours before. Both his biological mother and his…
May 15, 2019 Lust and Its Various Types Lust is defined in our Antiochian Pocket Prayer Book as “impure and unworthy desire for something evil”. So sexual lust is only one kind…
May 15, 2019 The Way to Be an Ascetic in Your Everyday Life There is a widely-accepted misconception among us that when one becomes involved in work at home or in business, immediately one steps out of…
May 14, 2019 Concern Over God’s Judgement In homily 51, St. Isaac begins a paragraph by quoting St. Gregory (I don’t know which one): “He is a temple of grace who…
May 14, 2019 On Not Judging Monks Story of Monk Daniel who was falsely accused of fornication. Prologue on March 18. If there’s one group of people that attracts a disproportionate…
May 13, 2019 St. Theophan the Recluse on the Feast of the Myrrhbearing Women (Acts 6:1-7; Mark 15:43–16:8) O tireless women! They didn’t let their eyes sleep and their eyelids close until they found the Beloved One! It…
May 13, 2019 Elder Paisios on Loving the World around Us A few days after Pascha I decided to take an afternoon walk in the forest outside of Florina… It was a joy to…
May 13, 2019 Spain: Apostle James, Pilgrims’ Patron Saint Every Catholic in Spain will tell you the legend about the appearance of the relics of Holy Apostle James in their country: When Apostle James…
May 11, 2019 Who or What Are Gog and Magog? Why Are They So Famous? Bishop Sylvester (Stoichev), the Rector of Kiev Theological Academy, on the meaning of the mysterious Gog and Magog. These two names are mentioned in…
May 11, 2019 Why not to Have a Fixed Day for Pascha? Recently there has been some talk in church circles of changing the present calendar so that Pascha (or “Easter” as it is known in…
