Alexander Schmemann Fr. “Be like children” (Mt 18:3)–what can this mean? Is not our whole civilization focused on the task of...
By Olga Konaris Kokkinos, Journalist Everyone knows that when one is deliberately ignoring certain facts, one is equally guilty had...
By Very Rev. Archimandrite Ambrose Bitziadis-Bowers America, has become the most religiously diverse nation in the world. There are more...
If “hell is other people,” as Sartre concluded, then maybe heaven is too. Every once in a while we meet...
Our friends and peers (others our age) can have a huge influence on our decisions. So often, many of our...
The Nativity of Christ. 8th century Byzantine icon at Saint Catherine’s Monastery (Mount Sinai). I. All share in the joy...
Late one Christmas Eve, I sank back, tired but content, into my easy chair. The kids were in bed, the...
Chinese Français Deutsch Italiano Español Русский (Russian) Українська (Ukrainian) Prot. No. 1237 BARTHOLOMEW By God’s Grace Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome...
Again we pray for the children of God condemned to death by the unjust judgement of men: that the Lord...
Hath it not been told thee, O man, what is good? Or what doth the Lord require of thee, but...
Continued from (20) 5. The Differences between the Trials Trials (peirasmoi) are so called because they engender experience (peira), since...
Continued from (19) 4. On Trials and the Spiritual Law The Fathers’ saying ‘spill your blood and receive the spirit’...
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by Fr. Milovan Katanic While September is the beginning of the ecclesiastical year which is marked by our commemoration of...
If we seek God, He will show Himself to us. And if we keep Him, He will remain close to us....
Continued from (18) 3. On Regime and Disorder Among the duties which the ever-memorable Elder taught us during the first...
Continued from (17) 2. On Discovering the Will of God Our life with the Elder had the character of childhood...
Continued from (16) Part Two: Teaching 1. On Sanctification and Dispassion We have already said how difficult it is to...
Continued from (15) It would be an omission not to speak of the other basic characteristic of our ever-memorable Elder,...
Continued from (14) 11. The move to New Skete ‘Arsenios,’ said the Elder one day in June 1951, ‘it looks...
