by Hieromonk Damascene A talk delivered at the Annual Lenten Clergy Confession of the New Gracanica Metropolitanate and the Western...
“Do you think that I cannot call upon My Father and He will not provide Me at this moment with...
I have sometimes said (in a light-hearted manner) that God gave us the Church to keep us honest. The truth...
I bind to myself today The strong virtue of the Invocation of the Trinity: I believe the Trinity in the...
O Angel of God, my holy guardian, given to me from heaven, enlighten me this day, and save me from...
In the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Gospel of today is the story...
At the completion of the thirty hidden years in which he had passed through all the stages of the common...
Our holy mother Syncletica was born at Alexandria in the course of the fourth century to rich and devout parents,...
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh Before we pray, I should like to introduce our prayers so that when we pray, we...
From the Old English ‘Cristes Mæsse’ ~ meaning the ‘mass of Christ’ ~ the story of Christmas begins with the...
Troparion – Tone 7 O joyful north star of the Church of Christ, Guiding all men to the Heavenly Kingdom;...
by David Grier “good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over” Jesus said: Give and it will be given back...
True joy comes from seeing God in all things, knowing God in all things. To know of God in the...
So, to repeat the first point: we watch the signs of the times in order to recognize Christ when He...
I’ll never forget what I heard one cold winter day on the radio while attending seminary over twenty years ago....
The Holy Martyrs and Confessors Samonas, Gurias, and Habibus suffered during the persecution against Christians under the emperors Diocletian (284-305)...
A virgin flourishing as the rose, The comely bride of Him Who is the Lamb, As the precious martyr of...
by Andri Hatzikosta-Tofalidou 1st Letter 3rd July 1900 To: The holy commissioners of the Great and Holy Monastery of Vatopedi,...
“…Timidity leads the soul into confusion and a certain unsteadiness, and a soul which is unstable can very easily fall....
“What unspeakable delight shall we know, when the King with great joy shall say: Come ye blessed of my Father,...
