December 1, 2020 What Is the Purpose of Prayer? A Few Words about Constancy If we look closely at the holy angels, we will notice several particularities: 1. Angels exist to do the will of God. They are…
November 28, 2020 15 Quotes by Venerable Justin (Popović) 1. Sins are earthquakes that overturn minds, souls and hearts, forming in them stony gorges, crevasses and rocks. They leave us wandering through these…
November 25, 2020 On Gratitude, Modern Utopianism, and the Cross of Christ The Holy Fathers teach us that in order to conquer any given passion, we must strive to cultivate the opposing virtue. If we are…
November 15, 2020 What are the Signs of Developing Pride? Answering a reader’s question, psychologist Alexander Tkachenko talks about identifying pride at its roots. I would view the development of pride as a path…
November 15, 2020 The Gadarene Demoniac Luke 8:26-39 Then they sailed to the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. And when He stepped out on the land, there…
November 14, 2020 Why Does the Orthodox Church Not Bless People to Stage Revolutions? This question was answered by St Paul the Apostle at the very beginning of Christianity. He explained that regardless of how bright the ideas…
November 14, 2020 The Hardest and Most Important Ascetic Labor When we think about the saints, we very often imagine their lives to be an unceasing movement from earth to heaven, a continual going…
November 13, 2020 The History and Meaning of the Catapetasma Almost every church has a curtain separating the central nave from the altar. Historically, such a curtain appeared even earlier than the actual altar…
November 10, 2020 On Celtic Orthodoxy My “inside minor” when I was doing doctoral studies in theology at Duke, was the history of the Church in the British Isles, particularly…
November 10, 2020 Bewailing Our Sins From ‘The Parable of a Robber who was Saved for the Sake of his Few Tears’ Contrition of the spirit and lamentation of the heart…
November 10, 2020 On the False Dilemma. Choosing between Hell and Hell The rousing online debates about the new wave of Islamist terrorism, triggered by secular obscenity, once again confront us with the need to gain…
November 9, 2020 “Read the Gospel!” To illustrate the power of the word of God and its action, I will now provide some life examples known to me. E.F., rector…
