September 9, 2020 590 0 Importance of Repetition A Protestant friend asked me: How can you pray the same prayers all the time? Isn’t it limiting and monotonous? We’re certainly not expected…
September 8, 2020 249 0 Finding Peace within Ourselves – What the Holy Fathers Say No man has understanding if he is not humble, and he who lacks humility is devoid of understanding. No man is humble if he…
September 8, 2020 509 0 Church of Christ the Saviour at Chora Monastery Ultimately Became a Mosque Six months after the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453, the Chora monastery with the Cathedral of Christ the Savior became the…
September 7, 2020 299 0 Why Sin Is Not A Moral Problem Many readers have never before heard that there is no such thing as moral progress – so I am not surprised that I have…
September 7, 2020 469 4 The Angelic Language “Silence is the beginning of humility,” Ferapont read that in the Holy Fathers. Consequently, one cannot acquire humility before learning to keep silent….
September 6, 2020 1119 1 French Actor Gerard Depardieu Converted to Orthodoxy Gerard Depardieu was baptized in the Russian St. Prince Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Paris. On September 4, 2020, Gerard Depardieu, the French actor, a…
September 6, 2020 251 0 Prophesies by St. Kosmas Aitolos Father Kosmas Aitolos was born in 1714 in the Greek village Megalo Dendro (Big Tree) in the region of Aitolia. He studied in Mount…
September 6, 2020 2026 0 Why Does the Priest in the Sacrament of Baptism, Breathe Three Times on the Baptismal Candidate’s Face? Indeed, this ritual is conducted just before the Sacrament of Baptism, in the order known as “prayers at the making of a catechumen”. The…
September 5, 2020 183 0 How May We Know That We Are Living in the Spirit? What do we mean by living in the spirit? High spirituality enjoys much acclaim in many works of literature, art, music and cinema; even…
September 5, 2020 480 1 The Struggle Against The Normal Life Within the Christianity of our time, the great spiritual conflict, unknown to almost all, is between a naturalistic/secular world of modernity and the sacramental…