April 26, 2019 On Our Unwillingness to Abandon Sin A lot of hesitations… Some people don’t want to go to confession, others are driven mad by being woken up early to go to…
April 25, 2019 Holy Thursday: Sacrament, Not Mystery Holy Week is rolling to its climax day by day. Its first three days are full of tension, whilst Holy Thursday sticks out of…
April 24, 2019 The Lesson We All Could Learn from Judas Iscariot “Then one of the Twelve—the one called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests and asked, ‘What are you willing to give me if I…
April 22, 2019 Great Monday: the Path to Eternal Beauty It’s Sunday afternoon. After a clear and solemn morning, after the consecration of willow branches, after the Palm Sunday, which portends the Easter, there…
April 21, 2019 Dying Like True Christians In the book “Everyday Saints” there is a section about a monastery in Russia which had fallen into moral decay. This was not long…
April 19, 2019 Struggle and Weakness Often in American Christian circles we’ve hear that so-and-so is struggling. Oh, no! They’re struggling with some sin or doubt or crisis; how awful! In…
April 18, 2019 Seven Deadly Sins: Sources and Results of Anger Anger is a complex sin. (Did I mention earlier that sins intermingle and build on each other in many ways?) Saint John of the Ladder quotes…
April 17, 2019 The Role Monasticism Play in the Life of the Church You are not alone in asking that question. In a world where everything that is done has to have a “purpose” monasticism seems, on…
April 17, 2019 Othodox Understanding of True Friendship We tend to have special affection towards certain people and strike a union of friendship with them. Friendship doesn’t contradict the commandment of loving…
April 15, 2019 “You Should Care for Your Loved Spouse and Stop Your Constant Excuses” Archimandrite Andrew (Konanos) advises on how to learn to live a fuller marriage. I met a family one day. One of the spouses said,…
April 15, 2019 Spiritual Growth through Irritating People in Your Life Have you ever had a person in your life that simply pushed your buttons whenever you were around them? Perhaps you might just have…
April 14, 2019 “Our Life Is War!” The Gospel helps us to rediscover one or another side of our lives every time we read it. It reminds us of how we…
