September 16, 2019 Staying Orthodox in an Anti-Christian Environment After summer many young people are facing the prospect of heading off to college, some for the very first time. A scripture passage comes…
September 13, 2019 The Unknown God I would like to begin by telling two stories. The first is a story from the life of St. Silouan of Mt. Athos (in…
September 13, 2019 Is It True that Christ Taught to be Just Good and Not Some Religion? – Myth and Its Dispelling Myth: Christ only taught to be good: it is important to be merciful and compassionate, but faith in certain dogmas and observation of some rites…
September 13, 2019 Not Like Religion – the Christian Clergy According to Fr. Alexander Schmemann, Orthodox Christianity is not a religion. In his For the Life of the World, he wrote, “Christianity is in a…
September 11, 2019 Animals Smell Paradise Animals were created before humans: aquatic (reptiles) and airborne (birds) creatures were created on the fifth day of creation, whereas terrestrial creatures were created…
September 11, 2019 The Desert Fathers: Praying without Ceasing Once certain monks of the kind called Euchitae‚ that is‚ the Men of Prayer, came to the abbot Lucius in Enna: and the old…
September 10, 2019 Elder Joseph the Hesychast: The Fragrance of Prayer Once when Geronda and I were outside with our prayer-ropes and he was telling me about prayer and his experiences of looking after monks…
September 10, 2019 Grumbling Is Very Dangerous for Our Well Being Have you noticed how some people are always grumbling? I have a good friend who always begins his story about his latest trip by…
September 9, 2019 The Deadly Sins: Bodily Sloth, Intellectual Sloth, Moral Sloth “I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding; and there it was, all…
September 7, 2019 Theotokos: the Bridge by Which God Descended So, the Lord Jesus gives us this possibility to unite with God and return to the primary purpose which God ordained for man. Therefore…
September 7, 2019 Holy Tradition of the Church VS Holy Scripture of the Church A good question was posed to us by one of the readers of our blog recently: “Why are visions of some saints sufficient to…
September 5, 2019 Gratitude Brings Happiness I was once on my way to my classmate’s wedding. It was down in the country. Everyone seemed to know each other on the…
