August 12, 2019 A Recent Miracle: St. Nicholas and the Church Keys This story is told by nun Maustrigia. During the Soviet persecution of churches, her monastery was closed down and all the nuns were told…
August 12, 2019 Social Media as a Springboard to Prayer Facebook isn’t fun anymore. It used to be a great place where people shared posts about life events and articles of interest. I learned…
August 10, 2019 Why Do Children Suffer? This is a “damned” question that quite a few people keep asking. From one generation to another, they are pestered by this horrendous thought…
August 10, 2019 Demons and How They Attack Humans We may have heard the opinion that the dark powers influence people only in relation to the evil eye or maleficium. Hardly anyone pays…
August 10, 2019 Saint Nicholas, Protector of Children On this day, the Church celebrates the memory of one of her most beloved saints—St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of Myra and Lycia. St. Nicholas…
August 10, 2019 Why You Can’t Do Orthodoxy By the Book (or the Blog) There is a grave problem with Orthodoxy – you can’t do it by the book. Even less so, can you do it by the…
August 9, 2019 Greatmartyr and Healer Panteleimon’s Miracles The Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon was born in the city of Nicomedia into the family of the illustrious pagan Eustorgius, and he was…
August 9, 2019 Psychogenic Depression: The Orthodox View Depression (from the Latin word depressio, which means to press, oppress) is a subnormal, depressed mood, accompanied by lethargy, fatigue, and a dull and pessimistic…
August 9, 2019 Several Provisions on Toll Houses There is a contested concept of toll houses in the Orthodox Church. Perhaps, every Orthodox Christian has had to consider how he or she…
August 8, 2019 Saint Macarius of Optina: on Sorrows We don’t know why the Lord sends us sorrows, but of course there are three main goals. One of these reasons —and perhaps very often—is…
August 8, 2019 Byzantine Treasures of Mount Athos to Be Digitized An important and invaluable collection of manuscripts, codes and printed documents that have been stored for centuries in the Holy Mountain of Athos and…
August 8, 2019 Was Cleopatra a Saint? A priest once told me that there was a blue-eyed white girl with brownish hair who came to partake of Holy Communion and clearly…
