October 21, 2019 Five Wild Facts about St. Basil’s Cathedral On October 14, 1991, St. Basil’s Cathedral was reopened for church services after six decades of being barred from hosting religious rites. Here are…
October 20, 2019 Love, Peace, and Joy With its multiplicity of rules, canons, and liturgical stipulations, one might be forgiven for thinking that Orthodoxy is primarily about rules and regulations, coupled…
October 20, 2019 Can We Love Others Without Loving Ourselves? What does it mean to love your neighbor as yourself? Do we have love for ourselves and what should it be like? Let’s try…
October 19, 2019 Tears Can Be Caused by Adversarial Forces from the Other Side What’s the difference between penitential tears and hysterical tears? Hysteria is a nervous state one brings himself into. For example, we can do so…
October 19, 2019 “The Nurses Looked at the Doors of the Ward and Cried”: The Wonder at Botkin Hospital My Moscow friend Larissa, whose hospitable home I stayed at when visiting Moscow, had an emergency lately. Her ex-husband, with whom she maintains good…
October 18, 2019 Spiritual Father’s Sermon: “Through the Theotokos, Humanity Accepts God and Unites with Him!” A mother will protect, cover, love and care for her children, and treat any sorrows that may befall them as her own. We adults…
October 18, 2019 On Different Prayers Luke 4:22-30. Ephesians 6:18-24 There are often controversies over the best way to pray. The apostle answers: “Praying always with all prayer and supplication…
October 18, 2019 Tears in Church: How to Deal With Them? “Eyes are clearer than words. Words sometimes only obscure the point. As they say, the eyes are a mirror of the soul. One can…
October 17, 2019 What Is a Prayer by Agreement? “Line all your life’s activities with frequent prayers as if with timber joints and thus protect your life in every way”, St. John Chrysostom says….
October 17, 2019 Work Hard – Pray Hard – Changing the Paradigm The slogan “Work hard‚ play hard” has been in iconic standard for corporate culture for years. It initially meant to be as involved in your…
October 16, 2019 The World, the Flesh and the Devil (From Limonis’s word on thoughts) There are temptations that lead us to sin. These temptations cannot come from God: He is holy, righteous, and…
October 16, 2019 Conversation With St. Paisios About His Illness: Cancer – Geronda, the final diagnosis has been made. Your tumor is cancerous and it’s aggressive. – Bring me a handkerchief so that I may…
