November 24, 2020 Distinguishing the Desire to Help from the Desire to Please? Question: Could you please tell me how I can distinguish the desire to help someone from people-pleasing? If helping a person gives you an…
November 24, 2020 About Distributing the Food Allowance Luke 12: 42-48 2 Thes. 1:10–2:2 Once the Lord told a parable about slaves who were honestly staying awake, diligently doing their assigned work…
November 23, 2020 How Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh Had to Be Devious with the BBC In the mid-1950s, when the future Metropolitan Anthony began speaking on the BBC, broadcasting was done strictly according to a previously approved text simply…
November 22, 2020 About the Poor, the Hungry and Those who Mourn Luke 6: 17-23 Phil. 1: 27-2: 4 St Matthew the Evangelist begins to expound this conversation of the Lord Jesus Christ in the following…
November 22, 2020 “Do You Want to See an Angel?” St. Nektarios and His Instructions November 9/22 we remember St. Nektarios of Aegina, a modern ascetic and wonderworker. His life is amazing: the Lord manifested in a visible and…
November 22, 2020 Mickey Rourke Plays in the Film about Orthodox Saint The life and struggles of St. Nektarios of Aegina, the “saint of our century,” will soon come to life on the big screen, in…
November 21, 2020 What’s Reflected in the Mirror? Objects Held by Angels According to art critic Archpriest Boris Mikhailov, the image of an Angel, as we know it today, was formed as early as in the…
November 21, 2020 Australian Scientist Discovers Greek Orthodoxy “My daughter was the first child who I christened as a Greek Orthodox priest,” says Father Jeremy. South Australian scientist Jeremy Krieg was born…
November 20, 2020 Why Do Children Stop Coming to Church when They Grow Up? Some Thoughts for the Anxious Parents God has a plan for all the people who come into this world. He had created this world so each person could fulful their…
November 19, 2020 The Miracle in Stepurino: the Cross Raised from the Ground Stepurino is a small village in the Tver region. It has a rather ancient history, mostly connected with the wooden church of Florus and…
November 18, 2020 10 Mistakes On The Way To Marriage Why are people who wholeheartedly want to have their own family, children, often unable to build relationships? Why, having found their “soulmate”, do they…
November 17, 2020 Two Oaths In today’s world, people do not swear by anything. Our words are not taken at their face value any more. Words have been replaced…