June 3, 2020 Schemamonk George from the Old Russikon, a Disciple of Elder Joseph the Hesychast Schemamonk George was a little-known ascetic, laboring in asceticism on Mt. Athos for twenty years. He was a disciple of the great Elder Joseph…
June 2, 2020 The Q: A Mysterious Collection of Jesus’s Sayings There is a theory that the Evangelists Luke and Matthew used a document with the sayings of Christ that has not survived to this…
June 2, 2020 Work and Spiritual Growth Recently I’ve run across a pretty surprising opinion. A man I respected claimed that his job impeded his spiritual growth. I mean, drawing endless…
June 2, 2020 Should Children Be Involved in Church Obedience? Kids look so sweet stepping out onto the ambo! How they try to do everything right, how tightly they hold candles! But few people…
June 1, 2020 Holy Fathers on Sickness You are afraid and confused in the spirit that cholera is approaching your area, and you are asking for my advice and encouragement….
June 1, 2020 I Am Arius Does it really matter if Jesus is God or not? Couldn’t God have just picked a man and made him a savior or a…
May 31, 2020 An Exclusive Creed The Nicene Creed was created to exclude. This goes against the grain of our modern secular society, where the word “inclusive” has become a…
May 30, 2020 What Ascetic Means Are Recommended to Combat the Passion of Filthiness? 1. In order to conquer sin, first of all it is necessary to hate it, to realize all its perdition and abomination before God…
May 30, 2020 Why Do Only Monks Become Bishops? The tradition of ordaining representatives of monastic clergy as bishops is not inherent in the Church at all. The evidence of this is provided…
May 29, 2020 It’s Not Always Possible to Judge Others by Yourself It happens that pious people who please God with various deeds are confused when they see people who are also pious, but who, in…
May 29, 2020 A True Friend or What Must Remain on this Side of the Grave? Saint Barlaam says in one of his parables, “One man had three friends. He loved the first two especially, and was ready to sacrifice…
May 28, 2020 The Ascension: a Beginning, Not an Ending If one read the four Gospels as if they were four separate biographies of Jesus, one might be forgiven for thinking that the Ascension…
