November 8, 2020 A Good Death I have this enduring memory. When I was young, I was fascinated with a real life news story about a man on death row….
November 7, 2020 About Prayer and Mending Relationships Let me share with you some examples of how heartfelt prayer can transform our lives. Both affected me directly and taught me one important…
November 1, 2020 The Ministry of Suffering For those of us who are generally physically healthy, it is easy to assume that the real spiritual life consists of such activities as…
October 28, 2020 How to Distinguish Self-Criticism from Repentance Confusion on this issue is a fairly common problem. Here is a typical question from modern parishioners: How can we obtain repentance? Where can…
October 26, 2020 About the Importance of Morning and Evening Prayers Recently, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine said interesting words in one of his sermons. They were about the world trying…
October 23, 2020 Instructions of Saint John of Shanghai “We are surrounded by great Providence. There is no “fate” or “blind destiny”. There is however the Unsleeping Eye of God’s love and…
October 22, 2020 The Patrimony of the Byzantine Papacy “Papacy” and “Byzantium” appear mutually antagonistic (if not hostile) in our minds. At a certain period in Byzantine history, its emperors dreamed of bringing…
October 15, 2020 A Groom by Blood. What did Zipporah Mean? There are many cryptic expressions in the Bible, the meaning of which still isn’t completely clear. Such passages are called crux interpretum (literally interpreter’s…
October 13, 2020 I Met an Angel at Jordanville Once I met an angel at Jordanville once. That angel took the time to correct and challenge me to see the beauty, the holiness, in every person…
October 12, 2020 We Need to Pray with Every Prayer About different prayers Luke 4: 22-30 Ephesians 6: 18-24 Finding the best way to pray often becomes a topic of debate. The apostle says:…
October 11, 2020 Elder Nikolay Guryanov’s Spiritual Counsels “Our life is blessed… A God’s gift… We have a treasure in us – our souls. If we preserve it in this temporary world,…
October 8, 2020 Why Doesn’t God Kill the Devil? We can feel the correctness of our faith, but we cannot always explain it or prove it to an unbeliever, especially to someone who…
