January 16, 2019 “He That Endureth to the End Shall Be Saved”: St. Theophan the Recluse Explains He that endureth to the end shall be saved. (Matthew 10:22). Do we have anything to endure? No one has too little to put…
January 11, 2019 Egyptian Dragons Praise Baby Jesus I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt (Hosea 11:1). According to Holy Apostle Matthew’s Gospel, King Herod asked the wise…
January 11, 2019 The Motivation to Do Good Advocates of autonomous morality attack Christian morality as if it were motivated by primitive moral principles: fear of future torments in hell and the…
January 9, 2019 Prayer as the Reflection of Your Spiritual Life “Prayer is the test of everything; prayer is also the source of everything; prayer is the driving force of everything; prayer is also the…
January 3, 2019 How Unpracticed Faith Turns to Atheism Unpracticed faith—that is, faith without works—St. James writes, is dead. It has no transformative or sanctifying power; it is intellectual assent that descends into…
January 2, 2019 Orthodox Priests on How We Can Know the Will of God In the course of our lives, we are often faced with the choice of how to proceed, which path to walk down, and not…
January 2, 2019 Is There a Fate That You Can’t Avoid? The word ‘fate’ comes from the Latin word fatum, which broadly translates as ‘God’s judgment’. Therefore, the foreordained plan of our lives, which we…
December 28, 2018 Doing the Right Thing, for the Right Reason and at the Right Time “We must force ourselves to do good.” – St. Seraphim of Sarov Orthodox Christians do very little by whim. This is not…
December 28, 2018 Four Stories about Liquor and God’s Providence Alms for a Drunkard A young couple came to their spiritual father to donate him one thousand roubles. It was a lot of…
December 25, 2018 Bible Stories: What’s Wrong with Pouring New Wine into Old Wineskins? Today we’re going to tell you what wineskins are, and perhaps, the meaning of the words of Christ will be more clear for you….
December 25, 2018 God Smiles at Adam In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed…
December 24, 2018 Why Your Christmas Celebration Must Include the Eucharist I Hear the Christmas Story and I Think of the Eucharist! The more I hear the Christmas story, the more I’m convinced that…
