July 7, 2021 Holy Righteous Alexei Mechev. Quotes about God’s Love And Mutual Help (Continued) About Prayer Pray and do as you wish. Love and do as you wish! Prayer is given to us as the only all-encompassing means…
July 7, 2021 Why Do Some Icons of Pentecost Depict the Mother of God, while Others Don’t? In Early Christianity, the Ascension of Christ and the Descent of the Holy Spirit were celebrated on the same day, ending the Easter weeks….
July 6, 2021 Burial Sites of the Crucified Jew and Roman: What Do these Archaeological Finds Tell Us about the Passion of Christ? Until the middle of the 20th century, archaeologists had at their disposal no serious finds that could give a clear picture of crucifixion as…
July 6, 2021 Elder Paisios about God Letting a Father of Six Win a Lottery Saint Paisios of the Holy Mountain once told the following story: People with many children may face difficulties in the beginning, but God never…
July 6, 2021 Paxton Smith and the Global Culture of Loss and Disorientation Paxton Smith, a high school valedictorian from Texas, gave an abortion rights speech at graduation that went viral on the Internet. Swapping the agreed…
July 5, 2021 St Barsanuphius about the Lack of Patience and Making Enemies Our pride is the most important reason why we have enemies. Every time our neighbor offends us, we lay all the blame on him;…
July 5, 2021 Is Praying to Mary and the Saints Really Okay? When I first began to investigate Orthodoxy, my main stumbling block to conversion was prayer to Mary and the saints. My Protestant formation had…
July 4, 2021 On the Sunday of All Saints of America In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen Last week the Church celebrated the great feast…
July 3, 2021 Why Does Jesus Never Call Himself God? And Since He Is, How Can He Be Human at the Same Time? Modern readers of the Bible are often let down by their ignorance of the Old Testament Jewish culture and the biblical context. The Jews…
July 2, 2021 The Newborn Christian Church — the Early Years To an onlooker, the Church at the beginning of its history was more like a community of friends of Jesus than a fundamentally new…
July 2, 2021 What Makes Goodness Good? Mark 13: 1-8; 2 Pet. 1: 1-10 St Peter writes, “… You must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness…
July 1, 2021 Akathist to Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco Kontakion I Chosen wonderworker and superb servant of Christ, who pourest out in the latter times inexhaustible streams of inspiration and multitude of miracles….
