April 22, 2019 Joseph the All-Comely and the Cursed Fig Tree: the Beginning of the Holy Week Holy Week has begun. Shouts of “Hosanna!” – “Save!” have faded away, lying like forgotten palm leaves. The final week… The present day is…
April 22, 2019 Great Monday: the Path to Eternal Beauty It’s Sunday afternoon. After a clear and solemn morning, after the consecration of willow branches, after the Palm Sunday, which portends the Easter, there…
April 22, 2019 Some Practical Advice on Holy Week Let’s take a break from traveling. If I tell you all my stories at once we’ll run out before long, and after all the…
April 21, 2019 Dying Like True Christians In the book “Everyday Saints” there is a section about a monastery in Russia which had fallen into moral decay. This was not long…
April 21, 2019 Involuntary Faster: a Personal Story about God’s Providence This story happened to a son of a good friend of mine. She is still shocked by the clear evidence of God’s Providence in…
April 21, 2019 Lord’s Entry into Jerusalem in Various Christian Denominations Christians have celebrated the joyful holiday of the Lord’s Entry into Jerusalem since earliest times with exceptional splendor. There isn’t any Christian nation which…
April 19, 2019 Foreseeing and Other Miraculous Gifts of Orthodox Elders Another phenomenon which many who visit monastics have observed is the gift of far-sight which some of these people have. Often the Elders…
April 19, 2019 Struggle and Weakness Often in American Christian circles we’ve hear that so-and-so is struggling. Oh, no! They’re struggling with some sin or doubt or crisis; how awful! In…
April 19, 2019 Cherubic Hymn and Great Entrance: What (Not) To Do? The Cherubic Hymn is a preliminary or prefatorial chant to the Eucharistic Canon, which culminates in the transmutation (that is, a sacramental transformation) of…
April 18, 2019 Seven Deadly Sins: Sources and Results of Anger Anger is a complex sin. (Did I mention earlier that sins intermingle and build on each other in many ways?) Saint John of the Ladder quotes…
