February 15, 2022 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 43 Part 42 My Fine Dining and Drinking on Mount Athos Entering the refectory of St Paul’s Monastery that morning, I tried to be a…
February 14, 2022 The Most Important Meeting in Your Life There will be many meetings in your life, and you will not always be able to pay attention to them. However, there will be…
February 13, 2022 Comfort of the Unrighteous Everyone knows the parable of the publican and the Pharisee. For us, modern readers, the publican is a “good guy”, while the Pharisee is…
February 10, 2022 Elder Vitaly: Episodes from His Life and Fragments from His Teachings Last week, we shared with you the life of Schema-Archimandrite Vitaly. As a follow-up to that publication, here are some episodes from his life…
February 8, 2022 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 42 Part 41 Evening at St Paul’s Monastery Just outside the monastery’s gates, there was a spacious gazebo, surrounded by winding paved pathways, looking like…
February 7, 2022 Baptizing Children = Violating Their Freedom? Q: Baptizing children in infancy and then imposing religious beliefs on them is a violation of their freedom of conscience. Isn’t it better to…
February 6, 2022 “Does the Bible Encourage Unfair Treatment of Foreigners?” Answering a Question about One “Strange” Commandment Q: The Bible says, “On loans to a foreigner you may charge interest, but on loans to another Israelite you may not charge interest,…
February 3, 2022 The Genius Singer Galina Vishnevskaya and Her Lifelong Relationship with God Galina Vishnevskaya, a renowned opera singer and recitalist of the Moscow Bolshoi, would have been 95 on 25 October 2021. She became a star…
February 1, 2022 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 41 Part 40 Vespers And Evening Meal Our windows were located almost directly above the monastery’s semantron. Everyone jumped up and dressed quickly, like soldiers…
January 31, 2022 Spiritual Instructions of Elder Joseph the Hesychast Anger as such is natural. Just as there are nerves in the body, it is the nerve of the soul. We should use it…
January 29, 2022 It’s Not Only in a Monastery That You May be Saved In the Synaxarium, on the 3rd day of September, St Basil, among other things, says, “Make no mistake thinking that everyone is saved in…
January 27, 2022 Is There a Remedy for Other Peoples’ Passions? — Your Holiness, what line of behaviour would you recommend to those living under the same roof with an individual possessed by a…
