July 9, 2018 Parable of the Day: What Is Like God in This Word? Air is like God. It is always near, and you can’t see it. You learn how necessary it is when you lack it. …
July 8, 2018 What the Holy Scripture Says about Cremation In the town where I live, funerals have become rather rare. I hear this is true throughout our country. People now have a “Celebration…
July 6, 2018 How Do We Know that We Have Divine Grace? Let us begin with one story as an example. St. Simeon the Stylite was the first ascetic who began practicing this kind of asceticism,…
July 5, 2018 Some Thoughts on the Usage of the Archaic Language in Liturgical Texts One sometimes comes across mild debates in Orthodox circles about whether or not our Sunday Divine Liturgy should employ the archaic forms (e.g. “Thou…
July 3, 2018 Advice by St. Silouan the Athonite on How We Can Overcome Depression The greatest plague of the 21st century is not AIDS, nor cancer, nor the H1N1 flu, but something that affects much more people…
June 29, 2018 Post-Christian Culture: The Coherence between Our Creeds and Our Deeds It is time for Orthodox Christians to be realistic and not panic about life in an increasingly post-Christian culture. We are a tiny minority…
June 29, 2018 What Should I Do When My Relative Practices Magic? Question: Dear Father Andrew, my aunt has been openly practicing magic, and she is making our life extremely difficult for me and my brother…
June 28, 2018 St. Peter of Damascus: “Do not Despair: If You Fall, Rise Up!” If you fall, rise up. If you fall again, rise up again. Only do not abandon your Physician, lest you be condemned as worse…
June 28, 2018 Parable of the Day: Saving the Lamp of Your Life Elder Porphyrios from Greece foretold a spiritual child of his that he would have a long life. In spite of that, when that person…
June 27, 2018 What St. Paul Says about Repentance in His Epistles What is Repentance for St. Paul? Holy Scripture is the recorded history of man’s relationship with God. The main message of this history…
June 27, 2018 The Letters of St. Ambrose of Optina on Monasticism and Life in the World January 3, 1879 … In our last letter of December 14, you wrote that you cannot find any books applicable to your situation….
June 26, 2018 15 Quotes of Spiritual Guidance from Saint Luke Voino-Yasenetsky 1. To know God is to know absolute and unconditional love. 2. Prayer is the most important aspect of life for an Orthodox…
