November 23, 2017 16 Quotes Of The Holy Fathers Concerning Thanksgiving 1 “When you sit down to eat, pray. When you eat bread, do so thanking Him for being so generous to you. If…
November 23, 2017 What Makes Thanksgiving So Orthodox? There is no “feast” that seems more “American” than Thanksgiving. Many of us Orthodox also recognize this holiday in some sort of way. Usually…
November 20, 2017 How to See the Image of God in a World of Social Networking When the semester begins, I can tell that my students have trouble going for a few hours without checking their phones to see who’s…
November 10, 2017 The Meaning of “Agape” in the Orthodox Christian Church The impact of the Greek word agape — which is usually translated as love in English — remains one of the most inspiring aspects…
November 9, 2017 Five Guiding Principles on Reading the Old Testament The Old Testament can be confusing. It’s very long, and unfamiliar to most Christians. Many reading it cannot see how it points to the…
November 3, 2017 On the Original Sin in the Byzantine Tradition In order to understand many major theological problems, which arose between East and West both before and after the schism, the extraordinary impact upon…
October 30, 2017 35 Thoughts by Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica From Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica (St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood (December 19, 2011)…
October 26, 2017 The Significance of the Rituals Connected with Death and Dying in the Orthodox Church Theological and scriptural grounding It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for…
October 23, 2017 An Elder’s Correspondence to his Spiritual Daughter Caught Between the World and the Monastery January 3, 1879 In our last letter of December 14, you wrote that you cannot find any books applicable to your situation. You…
October 23, 2017 St. Ambrose of Optina on the Consequences of a Continuously Happy Life “A continuously happy life produces extremely unhappy consequences. In nature we see that there are not always pleasant springs and fruitful summers, and sometimes…
October 23, 2017 How Are Passions Born? Affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground, reasoned one of the friends of Job the Much-Suffering…
October 20, 2017 12 Thoughts of Athonite Elders on How to Stay Healthy and Defeat Your Diseases 1 When we give ourselves to Christ, then our spiritual organism is in peace, which allows our organs begin to function naturally. They all…
