June 20, 2019 The Death of Christ Destroyed Death and Hell and Released All Its Captives According to the Orthodox doctrine, when Jesus died on the cross, his soul descended into the hell and his divinity destroyed the powers of…
June 13, 2019 St. Theophan the Recluse: Why We Have to Ask God (Acts 25: 13-19; John 16: 23-33). Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you (John 16: 23). The…
June 12, 2019 What Is Our Key to Searching for the Truth? O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. (Ps. 104:24)…
June 12, 2019 How Weak Human Nature Totally Changes in Christ (Ref. Luke 24:36-53) We are accustomed to our body, we accept that it gets tired, requires nourishment, experiences pain, suffers from all kinds of…
June 9, 2019 Theophan the Recluse on God’s Nature (Acts 20:16–18, 28–36; John 17:1–13) Arius denied the divinity of the Son of God and his being of the same nature as his Father….
June 9, 2019 A Special Time between Ascension and Pentecost Why, after five consecutive Sundays focusing on Christ and His miracles, do we suddenly switch to the First Ecumenical Council, an event that took…
June 7, 2019 Christian View on the Vanishing Miracle of Friendship There is abundant scientific evidence that a healthy human childhood, both physical as well as psychological, leads to better physical health in adult life,…
June 6, 2019 Absurd Faith in God Only the Almighty and All-Good God can help us in any difficult situation while our “modest” egoism can only drag us to the bottom….
June 6, 2019 Feast Day Sermon: How Could Jesus Always Be with Us if He Ascended? According to the mind of the Church, the Risen Lord is also the Ascended Lord. In the words of Father Georges Florovsky, “In the…
June 3, 2019 Consumerist Attitude: How We Misunderstand What We Believe in Why are men so preoccupied with heaven and hell? Especially, hell? Why are so few preoccupied with Jesus? They have some incoherent notion of…
June 3, 2019 Fr. Philip LeMasters: “We Must Obey in Order to See!” Christ is Risen! Seeing is believing. There are many things in life that we will not accept unless we see them with our own…
June 2, 2019 “Your Joy No Man Taketh From You”: How Are We to Feel Joy of Resurrection in This Cruel World? On Easter Eve, I congratulated all readers of my blog on the Resurrection of Christ. I wrote, “Every year of our God-given life, the…
