The Holy Martyrs Menodora, Metrodora and Nymphodora They were sisters by birth and grew up somewhere in Asian Bithynia. Reared...
The Icon of Sophia, the Wisdom of God (Kiev), occupies an unique place in the Russian Orthodox Church. On the...
The Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary: The Most Holy Virgin Mary was born at...
Saint Andrew, Archbishop of Crete The present Feast is for us the beginning of feasts. Serving as boundary to the...
Michael, the great and chief commander of God’s bodiless hosts, both before the incarnation and after, showed compassion and solicitude...
Often has the Church proclaimed, ‘Prayer is the act from which all other good comes.’1 It may seem strange that,...
We cannot know God in His nature, since this is unknowable and beyond the reach of mind or of reason....
During the seventh century Northumbria, comprising the kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira, was a battleground in which the fate of...
The spiritual life, the Christian life, does not consist in developing a strong will capable of compelling us to do...
VatopaidiFriend: Our friend that sent us the following article, also sent the following comment “I fear it is too early...
The Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky (in monastic schema Alexis) died on the return journey from the Horde at Gorodtsa on...
Why are we so ready to judge our neighbor? Why are we so concerned about the burden of others? We...
The Beheading of the Prophet, Forerunner of the Lord, John the Baptist: The Evangelists Matthew (Mt.14:1-12) and Mark (Mark 6:14-29)...
A hideous and impure passion! All evil catches a fish in this murky water! God does not even want to...
Compiled by Rev. Archimandrite Nektarios Serfes Boise, Idaho U.S.A. History Of Asia Minor: 1894-1923 During 1894-1923 the Ottoman Empire conducted...
In the fourth century, the pagan Roman Emperor Maximian cruelly persecuted those who believed in Christ. He came together with...
I have had conversations in recent comments sections on the role of reason in the Orthodox life. I readily acknowledge...
Ahmed was born in the seventeenth century to a Muslim family in Constantinople. By profession he was a copyist in...
The Transfiguration is at the very heart of Christian theology, irresistibly commanding the gaze of the iconographer, the ready pen...
Who is she who rises resplendent, all pure, and bright as the sun? There is no mention of the Dormition...
