Beware of limiting the good of fasting to mere abstinence from meats. Real fasting is alienation from evil. ‘Loose the bands of wickedness.’ For give your neighbour the mischief […]
Category: Catechisms and articles
Who made God?
The human mind cannot capture the without beginning and without end of God. God, as God, is infinite in space and time, is without beginning and without end, is […]
The Good Samaritan. 8th Sunday of St. Luke
(Luke 10:25-37) A certain man was traveling fromJerusalemto the city ofJericho. He was a peaceful and hard working man, who was struggling for his daily bread […]
Demoniacs then and now
My beloved, you heard the sacred and holy gospel. A small book the Gospel, but it is the most beautiful, most powerful, most superb, incomparable book of the world. […]
But One Prayer is Needful
When I asked if he knew the words to the Akathist hymn to the Most Holy Theotokos – since it is common in Greece for many faithful and monastics […]
How to confront grief?
Grief is coming (Extract from a morning sermon) There are people, who, when they are healthy and their wallets are full, their children are progressing and everything is pleasant, they […]
Before the new testament was the Divine liturgy.
We Orthodox live Christ within the Divine Liturgy, or rather Christ lives within us during the Divine Liturgy. The Divine Liturgy is a work of God. We say: […]
Apocalyptic times
Love toward Christ demands sacrifices. And truly the ancient Christians were subjected to sacrifices who, during the persecutions of the first three centuries suffered numerous severe trials, and, […]
Christian means little Christ
For us to have right communion with Christ, it is necessary that our entire soul becomes conscious, that it comes into the light, into the grace of […]
Miracles…Science
Beloved, if you meet a man who boasts about the progress of modern science and you speak to him about the miracles of our holy […]