August 5, 2019 Which God Are You Sacrificing To? In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. Ihave something of a confession to…
August 5, 2019 “While We Think About God, We Are with Him!” We are living in favourable times: we can go to church and take communion without the risk of being shot to death or thrown…
August 4, 2019 How to Live as a Monastic in the World? Question: I want to give my life completely to Christ, but do not want to go to a monastery. Is it really necessary to…
August 4, 2019 Why Feeling Bad Is Good Sometimes? By summarizing my personal priestly experience of the Sacrament of Confession, I would like to say the following: a person himself is the cause…
August 3, 2019 How to Bring Harmony to Relationships: Wise Advice from the Song of Songs How beautiful Apostle Paul’s words about love are! Love that shows the path to perfection, to love that can elevate you over everything insignificant…
August 3, 2019 Elder Cleopa: One is Tempted from Eight Sides on the Path of Salvation The Holy Fathers say that on the path of salvation one is tempted by the devil from eight sides: from the front, from behind,…
August 2, 2019 Tonsure vs Long Hair Most priests of the Russian Orthodox Church wear long hair. A bearded man with long hair – a classic and already familiar image of…
August 2, 2019 Judge not or How to Be Saved without Effort The sin of judging others is found to be very prevalent in human actions because it can be so easily fallen into: censure of…
August 1, 2019 “Only in God Can You Find Joy” We continue our celebration of life, our celebration of the victory over death. We suffer much in this world, we have many trials, diseases,…
August 1, 2019 Saint Seraphim’s Spiritual Science From time to time, the Lord sends His people great soothsayers, great saints, who admonish the people, preparing them for great changes in the…
August 1, 2019 Voluntary Obedience to a Spiritual Father Prevents Spiritual Death By definition, an Orthodox Christian is one who strives to be obedient to the Commandments and, at the same time, obediently tries to fulfill…
July 31, 2019 Language of the Orthodox Church: Church Vestments Many churches astonish us with beauty and luxury of their interior decoration. And sometimes the incoming person has a question: what is it all…
