October 8, 2018 Parable of the Day: The Thankless Beggar In a certain village, there was a priest. This is a story he told the people who did not go to church on Sundays:…
October 6, 2018 How Iveron Icon of Theotokos from Hawaii Helped to Cure Leukemia My good friends, the Zlodorevs, are parishioners of St. John the Forerunner Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Lately, I’ve learned that their nine-year-old son, a…
October 5, 2018 Parable of the Day: Searching for Peace Outside and Inside There was an old man who liked fine arts. He was collecting paintings his entire life, and he finally acquired a formidable collection of…
October 4, 2018 Parable of the Day: Your Salvation Depends on What You Do There was a man who accumulated a lot of wealth. He never wanted to go to church to confess or donate. He had a…
October 2, 2018 Parable of the Day: What Has Sin in Common with Dirty Laundry? Dirty laundry needs to be washed sooner or later. You can dump the dirty clothes into a huge vat to postpone the unpleasant moment…
October 1, 2018 Parable of the Day: The Child Who Wished to Be a TV Set An elementary school teacher invited her students to write an essay about the gift that they’d like to receive from Santa. She went home…
September 28, 2018 Parable of the Day: God’s Piggy Bank There was a rich man who helped the poor, and everybody loved him dearly. He had a big iron piggy bank mounted on his…
September 27, 2018 Parable of the Day: How Can a Life after Birth Be Possible? There were two twins in a mother’s womb. After the conception, they looked at one another and exclaimed happily, “It’s great to be alive!”…
September 27, 2018 Three Personal Stories About the Miraculous Power of the Cross For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God….
September 15, 2018 What Should You Ask God For? There lived an ascetic who asked the Lord to grant him knowledge of many revelations and mysteries. One day, on the road leading to…
September 14, 2018 Turning Developer into Water: a Personal Story about the Miraculous Power of the Cross This story was told to me in 1987 by Hieromonk Theophylact from Pskov Caves Monastery, previously known as Konstantin Nikolayevich Belyanin who had been…
September 12, 2018 Parable of the Day: The First Step to God There was a man who came to an elder and said: “I’d like to find the way to God. Help me!” The elder looked…
