December 14, 2018 The Parallel between Swimming and Living a Spiritual Life Learning to Swim I learned to swim at an early age. I remember, before I started taking official lessons, my father taught me…
December 13, 2018 “Do not Pre-celebrate Christmas!” or Some Features of the Orthodox Advent Season The Advent Season, which began for us on November 15/28, is a time for anticipating the “Good News” of the Lord’s Birth. As with…
December 12, 2018 What Does Physical Health Mean for Orthodox Christians? There’s a slim chance of finding someone who will openly claim that she wants to be sick. It seems natural to want to be…
December 11, 2018 Archimandrite Andrew (Konanos) on His Meeting with Elder Paisius and the Elder’s Life-Changing Advice And Father Paisius replied with a question, “That’s what I tell you, my child…” We have our own opinions about everything. It seems…
December 10, 2018 Why Our Faith Should Not Be Conditional The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke 13:10-17 Can you imagine struggling with an illness for nearly 2 straight decades?…
December 9, 2018 Lost Keys or How We Look for the Truth in Wrong Places Last week, I dropped by a friend’s house and found him on his hands and knees in the front yard. He was frantically searching…
December 7, 2018 The Importance of Preserving Family Values and Gratitude By Fr. Andrew Lemeshonok Fidelity is the greatest family value. If a partner cheats on another partner, family disappears. It is…
December 6, 2018 What to Do When We Have to Meet Unpleasant People Who Bring Us Nothing but Trouble and Sorrow Commemoration of Holy Right-Believing Prince Alexander Nevsky It happens that we have to meet people who bring us nothing except troubles and…
December 4, 2018 Five Steps to Joy Everyone Can Make After the Fall of Adam and Eve, all of their descendants, us included, are doomed to all kinds of hardships and sorrows in…
December 3, 2018 Shifting Our Focus: the Reason We Should Fast before the Feast of the Nativity On November 28th we begin the Nativity Fast. We fast before the Great Feast of the Nativity in order to prepare ourselves…
November 29, 2018 The Shrewd Steward: What Does this Parable Mean? “There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.” The…
November 28, 2018 “Our Laziness and Lack of Faith Leads Us into a Dead-End!” By Fr. Andrew Lemeshonok I’m a priest, right? A spiritual father, if you like. To be honest, I’m nobody. I know that but…
