June 25, 2018 “We Need to Awake from Our Sleep!” When I anoint or sprinkle people with Holy water, I feel the depth of every person standing in front of me; there are so…
June 24, 2018 St. John of Kronstadt on the Burden of Priesthood “Dear brethren, priests and co-pastors of Christ’s flock! The greatest of callings has been entrusted to us from God. We are clothed with the…
June 22, 2018 The Demons Attack the Person Who… The demons attack the person who has attained the summits of prayer in order to prevent his conceptual images of sensible things from being…
June 21, 2018 St. Paisios the Hagiorite: “Confession Takes away the Devil’s Power over a Person” The devil does not possess any power or authority over a person who believes in God and goes to church, goes to Holy Confession…
June 20, 2018 To Take Up Your Cross, or to Wash Your Hands of It? A Conversation About the Gospel with Priest Alexei Uminsky, published by the “Nikeya” publishing house in 2011. It is very difficult to speak…
June 18, 2018 The Orthodox Understanding of Sin in Our Life In the first chapter of Genesis we read that man is made in God’s image and called to be like Him. The image, the…
June 18, 2018 “We Are Justified by Faith”: a Sermon on the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost One of the biggest challenges we face as Christians is the danger of becoming complacent or comfortable with our passions and sins, justifying or…
June 13, 2018 The Danger of Dishonest Dialogues The term “dialogue” (along with its synonyms, “conversation” and “discussion” and “engagement”) seems to have taken its place alongside the proverbial terms “motherhood”,…
June 12, 2018 St. Gregory of Nyssa on Music and Mediation in a Christian’s Life In his On the Making of Man, St Gregory of Nyssa likened the human body to a kind of musical instrument, played upon by…
June 11, 2018 Second Sunday After Pentecost: Follow Me and I Will Make You Fishers of Men In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, My dear brothers and sisters in Christ today…
June 8, 2018 Sermon on the Second Sunday After Pentecost: The Saints of Russia “And they straightway left their nets” In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. …
June 8, 2018 What comes after Silence in Prayer? Silence comes gradually in prayer. This is our first stage in seeking a union with God. It is this silence where you are able…
