November 14, 2019 Father Andrew (Konanos): Think about the Good of the One You Love One young man told me: “I really love one girl and really appreciate her; I deeply admire her and want her to be with…
November 14, 2019 Obedience and Disobedience Matthew 21:28-32 1 Corinthians 16:4-12 Today we have heard a short parable about a man who had two sons; and he came to the…
November 12, 2019 On Single Eye The Lord said: “The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of…
November 12, 2019 The Seven Deadly Sins: Envy Saint Basil the Great said it well: “There is no other passion engendered in human souls more pernicious than envy. It does less harm…
November 11, 2019 Why Did God Create the Tree of Knowledge? “And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the…
November 11, 2019 Top 20 Spiritual Tips by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphrius The Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Onuphrius of Kiev and All Ukraine, has turned 75 lately. Our Guardian Angel rejoices over our…
November 10, 2019 Demons’ Properties Luke 8:26-39 Eph. 2:4-10 We find many examples of exorcism in the Gospel. However, the today’s reading reveals a particularly great deal about the…
November 10, 2019 We Are What We Eat: The Word of God vs The Word of the World When we read a Gospel lesson like Luke 8:26-39 , the Gadarene Demoniac, we can easily get the impression that demons commonly haunt the earth and that…
November 7, 2019 On Satan’s Division Against Himself Luke 11:14-23 1 Thessalonians 2:9-14 One day the Lord “was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when…
November 5, 2019 Saint Silouan On Prayer We eat and drink every day, yet on the morrow our bodies need drink and food again. In like manner the recollection of God’s…
November 4, 2019 Will We Have a Name When We Die? The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (16:19-31) Today we hear the story of the rich man and Lazarus. It is…
November 4, 2019 15 Quotations of Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite 1. Those who believe it to be a virtue that they are exceedingly sad after committing sin do not understand that they do so…