November 29, 2019 Cure for Mistakes We all make many mistakes. Mistakes for which after (or immediately) we have to pay dearly. Which we have to correct painfully for a…
November 29, 2019 Martyred Guardian of Jacob’s Well Martyrdom and death for Christ is not only the privilege of the Christians who lived in the age of bloody persecution under the Roman…
November 28, 2019 Benedictine Monastery on Mount Athos? Each Orthodox person has heard about the Holy Mount Athos and about its famous monasteries, which never cease to bring the fruits of holiness…
November 28, 2019 St. Paisius (Velichkovsky) on Fasting St. Paisius (1722-1794) was born Peter Velichkovsky in Poltava, Ukraine, to a priestly family. At age thirteen he entered the Kiev Theological School with…
November 27, 2019 Ephebiphobia: Fear of our Teens and Youth I will break the ice. Hi! My name is Fr. Sampson Kasapakis. My favorite color is blue. If I could become any superhero, I…
November 27, 2019 Recommendations for Baking Prosphoras at Home We decided to prepare this piece in response to a comment to one of our blog posts. A reader complained that when he bakes…
November 26, 2019 Who Is My Neighbor? Why is the protagonist of the well-known parable about the merciful Samaritan, told by Christ at the end of His public ministry, a Samaritan,…
November 25, 2019 “Outside the Camp”: What we can learn from Saint Athanasios the Great The Early Life of Saint Athanasios Athanasios was born in the last decade of the third century in Alexandria Egypt, then the cultural and…
November 25, 2019 Holy Fathers on Combating Bad Thoughts The devil doesn’t attack a man unless he spoils his mind first. After all, a good thought protects a person, a good thought is…
November 24, 2019 Purple Parchment Manuscripts. Unique Examples of Book Art Black on white. We are so accustomed to this phrase that it is quite unusual to see some text written on a different surface….
November 23, 2019 On Providence and Evil When I appear on the radio, people often ask me questions about God’s stewardship of the world. We Christians believe in God’s Providence: we…
November 22, 2019 Deciding to Enter into Marriage: The First Rule of Marriage In this cycle of conversations on “The Grammar of family life” Archpriest Paul Gumerov speaks on how marriage is understood in the Orthodox Church,…
