April 22, 2025 How Do We Know What Christ Prayed in Gethsemane If the Apostles Slept? When Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as…
April 22, 2025 Christ’s Resurrection and Signals from Space One common objection to the credibility of Christ’s Resurrection traces back to the 18th-century Scottish thinker David Hume. Though many who repeat this argument…
April 8, 2025 St Mary of Egypt: How Did a Long-time Libertine Suddenly Come to Feel Shame? On Mercy Towards the Fallen What is true repentance? Which feelings does it awaken within us, and what else does the Great Canon teach…
March 25, 2025 Eldress Anastasia, guardian of Corfu’s sacred Monastery of the Virgin Mary of the Angels (Kyra ton Angelon) One day, while passing by a ruined monastery, a ten-year-old girl heard the call of the Most Holy Theotokos. From that moment, her entire…
March 11, 2025 We Have Entirely Forgotten What It Means to Seek Salvation Reflecting on the lives of great ascetics, I am continually amazed by their unwavering resolve to embrace hardship, deliberately making their lives arduous and…
February 11, 2025 Prayer From the Abyss: How Brokenness Became the Path to Grace On February 9, 2025, the Orthodox Church marks the Sunday of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector—the first of four special Sundays preparing our…
January 27, 2025 “Only Begotten Son” – Who Wrote the Hymn Sung at Every Liturgy? Justinian I was a ruler of contrasts: a great legislator, builder of cities and churches, and a defender of Orthodox doctrine on one hand,…
January 14, 2025 Guided by the Star: The Magi’s Journey to Christ We often hear about the Star of Bethlehem in the hymns and carols of the Nativity, but how often do we pause to reflect…
December 31, 2024 How Many Years Have Passed Since the Nativity of Christ? The modern calendar, used almost universally, begins with the Nativity of Christ. But was Christ truly born two thousand years ago, as this system…
December 17, 2024 There Are Three Women Mentioned in the Saviour’s Genealogy. What Does This Mean? On the penultimate Sunday before Christmas, the Church remembers all the Old Testament righteous saints and relatives of the Saviour. These were people who…
November 19, 2024 8 Miracles of Archangel Michael Throughout history, Archangel Michael has been a source of divine protection and miraculous intervention. Some of his miracles have been preserved through ancient tradition,…
November 6, 2024 Cosmas of Maiuma and John of Damascus: Brothers, Friends, and Hymnographers of the Orthodox Church In 7th-century Damascus, a Christian named Sergius Mansur and his wife raised an orphan boy named Cosmas alongside their own son, John, born a…
