July 3, 2018 145 0 Advice by St. Silouan the Athonite on How We Can Overcome Depression The greatest plague of the 21st century is not AIDS, nor cancer, nor the H1N1 flu, but something that affects much more people…
June 28, 2018 254 0 St. Peter of Damascus: “Do not Despair: If You Fall, Rise Up!” If you fall, rise up. If you fall again, rise up again. Only do not abandon your Physician, lest you be condemned as worse…
June 27, 2018 1969 0 What St. Paul Says about Repentance in His Epistles What is Repentance for St. Paul? Holy Scripture is the recorded history of man’s relationship with God. The main message of this history…
June 26, 2018 159 0 15 Quotes of Spiritual Guidance from Saint Luke Voino-Yasenetsky 1. To know God is to know absolute and unconditional love. 2. Prayer is the most important aspect of life for an Orthodox…
June 22, 2018 377 1 The Demons Attack the Person Who… The demons attack the person who has attained the summits of prayer in order to prevent his conceptual images of sensible things from being…
June 21, 2018 340 0 St. Paisios the Hagiorite: “Confession Takes away the Devil’s Power over a Person” The devil does not possess any power or authority over a person who believes in God and goes to church, goes to Holy Confession…
June 15, 2018 267 1 St. John the Wonderworker on Wearing Lipstick to Church It is the responsibility of the clergy and, in particular, of the parish rectors to insure that those who wear lipstick do not venerate…
June 12, 2018 466 0 St. Gregory of Nyssa on Music and Mediation in a Christian’s Life In his On the Making of Man, St Gregory of Nyssa likened the human body to a kind of musical instrument, played upon by…
June 6, 2018 341 0 St. Paisios the Hagiorite: Advice When Choosing a Profession – Geronda, some parents force their children to choose the same profession as they did. Often they do it rather persistently. – They…
May 25, 2018 66 0 St. Anthony of Optina on Commemoration of All Departed on the Saturday before Pentecost The Ancestor’s Saturday for the commemoration of the departed on the eve of the celebration of the Holy Trinity at Pentecost is called Trinity…