April 7, 2026 “Who Will You Leave Your Children With?” How the Mother of God Turned a Woman Back from the Edge In the first year of my priesthood—this was in 1991—I regarded the…
March 24, 2026 St John of the Ladder and the Order of the Heart What the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent Reveals to Us On the fourth Sunday of Great Lent, the Orthodox Church commemorates Saint John of…
March 24, 2026 How to Unload a Lorry of Bricks Without Growing Weary A story about the strength of prayer This happened many years ago, when I was serving my obedience as a prosphora baker. It’s a…
March 10, 2026 Why Temptations Often Intensify During Great Lent Is it true that the devil especially tempts believers during Great Lent? Both yes and no. On the one hand, the evil spirits always…
March 10, 2026 What Is Grace? How God Shares His Life with Us The Church dedicates the second Sunday of Great Lent to St Gregory Palamas. This commemoration recalls a fundamental truth that he defended in the…
February 24, 2026 The Triumph of Orthodoxy: From History to the Heart The first Sunday of Great Lent bears a striking and solemn name: the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy. It concludes the most intense…
February 24, 2026 The Trap of Perfection. St. Nectarios on Pride Disguised as Repentance We often mistake repentance for self-punishment. St Nectarios of Aegina shows why despair over our sins can be a sign not of humility, but…
February 10, 2026 Do You Love Me or Not? A friend once shared this story with me. A man I will call Mikhail had entered a dark season in his life. Everything seemed…
February 10, 2026 Why Do We Call Ourselves Servants of God, If We Are Sons? A reader asks: The Lord’s Prayer begins with the words “Our Father.” God is our Father, and we are His children. The Scriptures speak…
January 27, 2026 A Chosen Vessel of the Mother of God: The Life of the Athonite Elder Hieromonk Hieronymus Today’s account is offered in memory of the Athonite elder, Hieromonk Hieronymus (Solomentsov), who reposed on 27 November 1885. The Venerable Hieronymus (Solomentsov) was…
January 13, 2026 What Connects the Nativity with the Two Robbers Crucified with Christ The Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord is among the most beloved and familiar moments of the Church year. Its images and words…
December 30, 2025 “Glory to God in the Highest” The Nativity Hymn and the Peace the World Cannot Give Every year at Christmas, the Church hears and sings one of the most joyful hymns of the Nativity: “Glory to God in the highest,…
