August 9, 2018 332 0 A Personal Story about the Miraculous Help of St. Herman of Alaska Some time ago, in the 1990s, our parish invited a local “tree surgeon,” Leo M., to cut down a couple of dead trees in…
August 8, 2018 44 0 Parable of the Day: You Have to Live Here and Now! There was a carpenter — and a good carpenter he was, indeed — who liked to put everything off until a later time. As…
August 7, 2018 117 0 Parable of the Day: How Is Love Supposed to Unite Us? Here is a parable passed on to us by the Holy Fathers. Imagine a circle on the floor. In the middle of this circle…
August 6, 2018 79 0 Parable of the Day: How to Understand What People Are around You Once upon a time, there was an old man sitting by an oasis near the gates of a Middle Eastern city. A young traveler…
August 3, 2018 48 0 Parable of the Day: Explaining the Concept of Paradise Saint Innocent (Veniaminov) of Moscow used the following parable to explain the concept of the Kingdom of Heaven to his parishioners. – Imagine…
August 2, 2018 95 0 Parable of the Day: How We Turn into Thankless Beggars In a certain village, there was a priest. This is a story he told the people who did not go to church on Sundays:…
July 31, 2018 87 0 Parable of the Day: What Do Grievance and Potato Have in Common? Once a man came to an elder and saw that he was very kind to everyone. The man asked him: – You’re so…
July 30, 2018 44 0 Parable of the Day: A Friendship Ruined by Pride There were two friends who lived in an Arabic country. They would meet at a fireplace every evening and talk sitting on small three-legged…
July 26, 2018 54 0 Parable of the Day: The Worm of Passion Once many years ago, a ship was being built on the dockyard in Holland. It was necessary to find a long and tough log…
July 24, 2018 275 0 Saint Paisios of Mount Athos and a Watermelon: A Wise Advice on Friendship A layman decided to ask Saint Paisios of Mount Athos about his temptation. When he met his friends, who were proud, he felt obliged…