April 1, 2019 Benefits of Our Prayers for the Dying Fragment of a homily by Saint Gregory the Pope of Rome about a monk who was almost swallowed by a serpent but was released…
March 31, 2019 How Can We Bear Our Cross and What Does It Mean Exactly? The third week of the Great Lent is called the Week of the Veneration of the Holy Cross. We venerate the Holy Cross of…
March 27, 2019 “The Uncomfortable Book”: How Classical Literature Helps in Understanding Our Faith Thus, though exiled to the earth, we ascend to the heaven by love… – Valery Bryusov Apart from the works of spiritual literature, it…
March 27, 2019 Why Orthodoxy Is not a Religion 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…
March 26, 2019 Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony and What It Leads Us to C.S. Lewis, in his book Screwtape Letters, Chapter XVII, imagined a senior devil writing to a junior devil about how to tempt a certain Englishman: “One of our…
March 25, 2019 Annunciation: the Challenge of Rejecting our Self-Interest In both Eastern and Western liturgical traditions, March 25th marks a special event in the life of Jesus Christ: His conception in the womb…
March 25, 2019 Spiritual Readings for Great Lent Lent seems like a long time at the beginning, but it can pass you by quickly, if you don’t make a point of…
March 25, 2019 Convent’s Fathers Say: “Find Yourself and Find Your Own Way to Serve God” By Fr. Sergius Nezhbort Sometimes we have to embrace the reality and accept the circumstances of our lives as they are. It doesn’t mean…
March 24, 2019 “The Light of God’s Love”: Fr. Andrey Lemeshonok on His Spiritual Father Word of the Spiritual Father of St Elisabeth Convent. When I first visited Father Nicholas on Zalita Island, he was celebrating a liturgy. The…
March 24, 2019 “Every One of Us Must Carry that Light!” The Bible tells us that Holy Prophet Moses shone like the sun after his conversation with God. He had to cover his face to…
March 22, 2019 The Jesus Prayer for the Beginners One of the most important prayers in the Orthodox Tradition is the “Jesus Prayer.” It is not long or complicated, simply, “Lord Jesus…
March 21, 2019 – “What’s Your Father’s Name?” – “The Satan!” A priest was walking down the street and met a five- or six-year-old boy. The boy was barefoot with soiled legs, disheveled hair, and…
