April 9, 2019 How to Get Rid of Greed? 1. We need to begin by listening to some actual Bible teaching. Jesus said, “A man’s life is not measured by the amount of…
April 8, 2019 Iconographic Analysis of the Ladder “One can climb – at once – to the 30th step by practicing humility and love. Because, love and humility surpass any virtue”. –…
April 8, 2019 Gratitude as the Key Element of Spiritual Life In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. (1 Thess. 5:18) What can console and lift up…
April 7, 2019 What Did God Come into the World For? What did the Lord come into the world for? He came to liberate man from the bonds of slavery. Apostle Paul explains what kind of…
April 7, 2019 On Sudden Death Nowadays when science and technology are flying, when cultures converge and there is a crisis in values, even the word ‘death’ is avoided and…
April 7, 2019 How not to Throw Yourself down the Ladder The fourth Sunday of the Great Lent is dedicated to the memory of Saint John Climacus (†649), a great Orthodox ascetic. St. John was the…
April 5, 2019 Some Practical Tips on Reading Akathists at Home There is only one akathist that is appointed to be done in the services of the Church, and that is the akathist of…
April 5, 2019 Who Is Who in the Church, or Who Keeps the Worship Running Archimandrite Dositheus (Mikhailiuk), a professor of Kiev Theological Academy, on those who perform and participate in worship. Father, who are those people who perform…
April 5, 2019 On Saturday Commemoration of the Dead in Orthodoxy The Saturdays of commemorations of the dead are called ancestral Saturdays (the first universal commemoration on Meat Fare Saturday, the second, third, and…
April 4, 2019 Seven Deadly Sins: Greed as the Besetting Sin of the Modern World I could almost, barely, slightly, kind of, well not really, tolerate Black Friday if I thought people were shoving and shouting, and this year…
April 4, 2019 11 Quotes of the Holy Fathers about the Cross God does not create a cross for man. No matter how heavy a cross a man may carry in life, it is still just…
April 4, 2019 “It’s Never Too Late”: a Nun’s Story about How our Parents Come to God Sometimes This story happened to my father, Eugene Ivanovich, in July 2014. My dad is 82. He grew up in a village and he is…
