June 9, 2020 Pentecost: The Most Dangerous Time of All People often tell me how beautiful the Lenten and Pascha services are. I’ve never once heard anybody say, “O Father, I so much enjoyed…
June 8, 2020 The Oak of Mamre: Beginning Of The Revelation The episode at the oak of Mamre, recorded in Genesis 18, is one of the strangest and most mysterious in the scriptures. It has…
June 8, 2020 Don’t Put Pressure On Your Child All who go to church must be in love with Christ so that others can notice it. Do we not say: “Love cannot be…
June 7, 2020 The Cosmic Meaning of Icon Pentecost is a feast that encompasses all creation. After the Liturgy, there is a Vespers at which the genuflect prayers are recited. They are…
June 7, 2020 Simply Dying for Christ: On Pentecost Every great feast in the Orthodox Church witnesses directly and unequivocally to a miracle. The Day of the Holy Trinity witnesses to the miracle…
June 6, 2020 What Does the Image of a Cross with Branches Mean? At church, we can often see the image of the Cross of the Lord without the figure of the crucified Christ. The tree comes…
June 6, 2020 Archimandrite Andrew (Konanos): Your Faith Becomes Cold If You Avoid the Divine Liturgy Go to the temple of God to multiply your faith. Something wrong? Your computer broke down and you want to fix it? Ask Christ…
June 5, 2020 Resurrection of an Addict: A Miracle of Saint Gabriel Urgebadze This event took place on October 14, 1998 on the holiday of Svetitskhoveli in Mtskheta, the ancient capital of Georgia. George, its main character,…
June 5, 2020 Soul’s Own Circles or Absolute Value That Is Unmatched by Anything Mark 11:23-26 Ephesians 3:8-21 One day, the Lord said the following in response to the disciples’ astonishment that a barren fig tree had immediately…
June 4, 2020 May Orthodox Christians Eat Halal Food? When an ignorant person sees a product marked Halal on the counter, it is unlikely that he or she will pay any attention to…
June 4, 2020 Lost in the Forest. A Real Story That Took Place in Georgia Sergei Chitanava tells a story of his grandfather: My grandfather Nikoloz died four years ago at age 102. He was of sound mind and…
June 3, 2020 Inexhaustible Interest in Life: Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Queen Helena We had a discussion with friends over tea the other day about how interesting it is to be alive. This interest – not quite…
