July 29, 2019 Meekness Fuels Our Faith Not Power or Physical Aggression Now we have heard the reading of the Gospel about the healing of the Roman centurion’s servant. When the Savior, at the request of…
July 29, 2019 Becoming Spiritual Beings Is the True Aim of Our Faith St. Seraphim of Sarov, in his conversation with Motovilov, says that “Acquiring the Holy Spirit of God is the true aim of the Christian Life.” All…
July 28, 2019 The Prototypes of Cross Procession in the Old Testament Today, perhaps, every believer is familiar with Cross processions. We perform solemn processions within our capacity praising and glorifying God. Even in those Cross…
July 27, 2019 Is Our Idea of What Sin Really Is Right? “You sinner!” The preacher thundered from the pulpit in our small Pentecostal church, and, as a 10-year-old boy, he had me convinced. Yep, I…
July 27, 2019 The Main Spiritual Advice to All Believers from His Beatitude Onufriy – Your Beatitude, which main spiritual advice would you give to our readers on the day of your namesake from the perspective of your…
July 26, 2019 Is Aaron’s Blessing Preserved in the Church? When the Lord commanded Moses to build the Tabernacle of the Covenant and put Aaron as high priest over Israel, the Lord ordered Aaron…
July 26, 2019 Was There Really the Garden of Eden? The garden of Eden, the place where God dwells with his divine council, is known in Greek translation as Paradise. The word Paradise is…
July 25, 2019 The Consecration of The Lord’s Table as The Consecration of Our Lives The core, the sacramental heart and center of any Orthodox church is the altar, the Holy Supper, on which the greatest Sacrament on earth…
July 25, 2019 Should a Christian Seek a Just Retribution? Question: We often hear in sermons that God is patient and does not punish many of sinners. And Christians are ordered to forgive those…
July 25, 2019 What Does ‘Progress’ in a Marriage Mean? How is your marriage progressing? This simple question is a way of focusing our attention on right-thinking about progress and the Christian life. I…
July 24, 2019 Patriarch Kirill: “The Church Protection Against Attacks Is the Task of Every Believer!” We are all responsible for the walls that shield us from the forces of evil and through protection of which we obtain salvation. “When…
July 24, 2019 Virgin Hodegetria of Barkolabovo: The Guardian of the Eastern Lands We all know such miraculous icons of Mother of God as Our Lady of Kazan, the Iviron Theotokos or Theotokos of Vladimir. But, probably,…
