March 9, 2022 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 46 Part 45 Mountain-high Experience The variety at the Dionysiou monastery icon shop is quite limited, so we went on without stopping there. To leave…
March 8, 2022 Exiles at the Gates of Paradise. Purpose and Meaning of Lent Today I would like to talk about the purpose of the Great Lent. Spiritual exercises like fasting, prayer, reading the holy fathers, Confession and…
March 6, 2022 Patriarch Tikhon’s Forgiveness The whole state machinery was up in arms against him while he continued to save the Church against all odds. The Bolsheviks him behind…
March 4, 2022 Jesus Prophesied the End of the World and Repeated His Prophecy Multiple Times. Why Has Not It Materialised? What Did He Mean? Question: Jesus promised the end of the world during the lifetime of His contemporaries. He repeated his prediction several times. Why has not it…
March 2, 2022 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 45 Part 44 Dionysiou Monastery The halt ended, and we continued to water the Athos trails with our sweat, resounding our prayers into the surroundings….
March 1, 2022 What to Do in Difficult Times? Elders’ Advice Quotes from famous spiritual fathers on what to do in situations that cause anxiety, confusion and fear of the future. Archimandrite John (Krestiankin) (1910-2006)…
February 28, 2022 Sunday of the Last Judgment Matthew 25:31-46; 1 Corinthians 8:8–9:2 The judgment day will come at the end of earthly history, “when the Son of Man comes in his…
February 25, 2022 «Seek Us Who Are Perishing, O Holy Lady» Seek us who are perishing, Holy Virgin, punish us not for our sin, but for love of mankind: deliver us from hell, sickness and…
February 22, 2022 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 44 Part 43 Back in the Mountains We went outside the gates of the monastery, crossed ourselves and bowed with gratitude in the direction of…
February 21, 2022 The Power of the Jesus Prayer Elder Ephraim Katounakiotis once told the following story, “An elder says to his novice: – Read the Jesus Prayer. – I read it, but…
February 21, 2022 “I Have the Right to Do Anything — but not Everything Is Beneficial” A Homily on the Parable of the Lost Son Verses from the Four Gospels and Apostolic letters are read at every liturgy. Do they always bring an identical message? Yes and no. But…
February 17, 2022 Can Christians Use Spiritual Practices and Teachings of Other Religions? Q: Many eastern teachings allow their adherents to simultaneously follow other religious doctrines, including Christianity. Christians, on the other hand, flatly reject this possibility. …
