April 14, 2021 Practical Advice on Growing in Faith Faith is the strongest when it comes from personal experience. Faith is weak if it is based only on some miracles out there. Living…
April 13, 2021 Omens, Signs and Dark Periods in Our Lives — Is There a Connection? Listen to this article Throughout human history, people have been looking to omens and indications from God and asking for them. Why? When we…
April 13, 2021 Sinai Tea and Other Recipes from St Paisios of the Holy Mountain and His Favourite “Restaurant” on Mount Athos In 1962 St Paisios came to Sinai. There he lived in the cell of Sts Galaktion and Episteme and observed an ascetic rule that…
April 12, 2021 Steps of the Ladder. Repentance There is not a man on earth who never sins. (see Eccl. 7:20). After the Fall of our ancestors, human nature became prone to…
April 12, 2021 An Icon has Started to Exude Myrrh in the Seletsky Monastery The image has been painted by one of the monastics. An icon of the Most Holy Theotokos recently began exuding myrrh in the Seletsky…
April 11, 2021 Climacus and His Ladder “Oh, if only I could / At least to some degree, / Write eight lines I would / About passion’s properties. / About the…
April 10, 2021 Meaning and Importance of the Evening Prayers The conviction that prayer should be exclusively a matter of desire holds a specific place among other misconceptions existing in church today. I have…
April 9, 2021 The Title Panel of the Holy Cross in Rome — a Relic or a Forgery? Historian Timothy Kitnis weighs the evidence on both sides The discovery of the Holy Life-bearing Cross took occurred in 326, when the Byzantine empress…
April 8, 2021 This Saint’s Prescience Was Noticed by the KGB The highest feat of foolishness of Saint Barbara Skvorchikhinskaya (in the world, Barbara Vasilievna Arkhangelskaya; November 20, 1890 – February 27, 1966) is not…
April 7, 2021 The Annunciation St. Ignatius of Antioch, martyred in Rome in about the year 107, wrote that along with the death of the Lord, the virginity of…
April 6, 2021 “Add Evil to the Glorious of This World” — What Are We Praying for during the Lent? The Great Lent changes the regular course of a believer’s prayer life. Distinct Lenten prayer and worship direct our minds and hearts towards a…
April 6, 2021 Why Do Liberal Leanings Meet a Suspicious Reaction at Church? We, the Orthodox, are often reproached with being conservative. “Why cannot you open up more? Why are you still clinging to the middle ages?”…
