June 30, 2026 Keeping Prayer Alive Through Every Season of Life Marriage. Children. A new job. Illness. Moving house. Long commutes. Exhaustion. Days that seem too full to hold one more thing. Few Christians consciously…
June 16, 2026 What Does It Mean to Love Yourself? Few phrases are more fashionable today than “love yourself.” We encounter it everywhere—in books, podcasts, social media posts, and countless well-meant pieces of advice….
June 2, 2026 12 Questions About Pentecost On 31 May 2026, the Church celebrates one of Her great feasts: Pentecost, also called Trinity Sunday. Fifty days after Christ’s Resurrection, the apostles…
May 19, 2026 The Hidden Meaning of Christ’s Conversation with the Samaritan Woman There is a scene in the Gospel that, at first glance, seems entirely ordinary. Weary from His journey, Jesus sits down beside a well…
May 19, 2026 The Iconography of the Ascension What the Feast of the Ascension Reveals About Christ — and Humanity Before turning to the iconography of the feast, it is worth recalling…
May 5, 2026 A Patriarch Beloved by a Nation Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II at the Divine Liturgy in the Dormition Cathedral, marking the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus’. Photo:…
April 21, 2026 If Christ Is Risen, Why Do We Still Die? If death has been defeated, why do people still die? Christ did not simply raise the dead—this had happened before, through the prophets and…
April 14, 2026 When Forgiveness Opens the Way Perhaps every priest carries within him a Paschal story—a true one, when all that remains to say is: Christ is risen! Any other words…
April 7, 2026 Could Judas Have Been Forgiven—Like Peter? The name of Judas has become a byword. Even those who have never read the Gospel know who he is: the one who betrayed…
April 7, 2026 “Who Will You Leave Your Children With?” How the Mother of God Turned a Woman Back from the Edge In the first year of my priesthood—this was in 1991—I regarded the…
March 10, 2026 Why Temptations Often Intensify During Great Lent Is it true that the devil especially tempts believers during Great Lent? Both yes and no. On the one hand, the evil spirits always…
March 10, 2026 What Is Grace? How God Shares His Life with Us The Church dedicates the second Sunday of Great Lent to St Gregory Palamas. This commemoration recalls a fundamental truth that he defended in the…
