November 9, 2018 106 0 Parable of the Day: Do Not Let Your Children Turn into Stingy Onions I’ve never had time for my own children. Jobs and affairs, you know. My children never had anything to complain about: I had enough…
November 2, 2018 72 0 Parable of the Day: The Honey at the Bottom of Our Soul A monk came to his mentor and asked: — Father, I’ve been coming to you for so long. I’ve confessed my sins over…
October 30, 2018 139 0 Parable of the Day: What Can We Learn from a Mountain Stream? There was a young boy who was walking with his parents in the woods one day. He saw a clean brook. He drank some fresh…
October 26, 2018 178 0 Parable of the Day: We Can Only Give What We’ve Got There was a man who bought a wonderful and big new house with a fruit garden. There was an old ramshackle hut nearby where…
October 25, 2018 413 0 Parable of the Day: “Why Not a Cross?”, God Asked There was a lonely and unhappy man. He prayed to God saying: “O Lord, please send me a pretty woman: I’m very lonely,…
October 24, 2018 91 0 Parable of the Day: What Can We Buy in God’s Store? There was a woman who saw God behind the counter in a store. “Is it You, O Lord?” she exclaimed happily. “Yes,…
October 22, 2018 95 0 Parable of the Day: The Fed Up Sparrow A thunderstorm was over. There was a rainbow over the fields. A sparrow said: “I’m fed up with being colorless and…
October 18, 2018 56 0 Parable of the Day: The Court Attendants of the Lord At that time, Father Nazarius from Valaam Monastery arrived in St Petersburg. He knew the poor nobleman and came to comfort him. The nobleman’s…
October 16, 2018 212 0 Parable of the Day: God Gives You Not What You Ask For, but What You Need I was asking God to take away my pride. God said no. He said that He won’t take my pride away; it’s up to…
October 11, 2018 129 1 Parable of the Day: Can We Stop the Flow of Thoughts? A young disciple approached an elderly hermit and complained of being haunted by sinful thoughts. The elder took him outdoors into the open field…