October 28, 2020 253 0 How to Distinguish Self-Criticism from Repentance Confusion on this issue is a fairly common problem. Here is a typical question from modern parishioners: How can we obtain repentance? Where can…
October 26, 2020 1203 0 About the Importance of Morning and Evening Prayers Recently, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine said interesting words in one of his sermons. They were about the world trying…
October 23, 2020 231 0 Instructions of Saint John of Shanghai “We are surrounded by great Providence. There is no “fate” or “blind destiny”. There is however the Unsleeping Eye of God’s love and…
October 17, 2020 405 0 The Word, the Mind, and the Heart: Some Practical Tips on Prayer There is a thing called tacit or mental prayer when the praying person, having gathered his mind inside his heart, from there, not audibly,…
October 15, 2020 758 2 Confession Has to Be Repentance, and not a Story about Your Life Often people write down too much in their notes. They go into excessive detail about something or other, which is not quite proper. There…
October 13, 2020 1275 0 Saint Silouan the Athonite and His Experience of Confronting Demonic Powers Quite a lot has been said about him, and I’m unlikely to write something new here. When you read the lives or works of…
October 12, 2020 100 0 We Need to Pray with Every Prayer About different prayers Luke 4: 22-30 Ephesians 6: 18-24 Finding the best way to pray often becomes a topic of debate. The apostle says:…
October 11, 2020 485 1 Elder Nikolay Guryanov’s Spiritual Counsels “Our life is blessed… A God’s gift… We have a treasure in us – our souls. If we preserve it in this temporary world,…
October 11, 2020 237 0 Do not Deprive God of an Opportunity to Save You Some time ago we received a difficult question, “How to overcome the fear of death”. We asked Archpriest Igor Fomin to answer this letter….
September 8, 2020 249 0 Finding Peace within Ourselves – What the Holy Fathers Say No man has understanding if he is not humble, and he who lacks humility is devoid of understanding. No man is humble if he…