February 18, 2021 Visions and How the Devil Uses Them, Enticing Even the Greatest of Ascetics into His Net We often read the lives of saints or life stories where the Mother of God, Angels or saints appear to people in visions. These…
February 15, 2021 Two Parables and One Piece of Advice from Saint Silouan the Athonite Why Hasn’t God Given Wings to Man? One hunter liked to go out hunting for prey. Once he got tired and sat down on…
February 14, 2021 “Adapt Your Life to Your Faith, Not the Other Way Around.” St Seraphim (Sobolev) The life of St Seraphim (Sobolev), Archbishop of Bogucharsk, was closely associated with two great saints – St Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Venerable…
January 24, 2021 “Those who Lack Faith Hope for a Miracle” – Memorable Quotes by the Honorary Patriarchal Exarch of Belarus, Metropolitan Philaret On January 12, 2021, at the age of 85, Metropolitan Filaret (Vakhromeev) reposed in the Lord. Many people call him a mountain of a…
January 23, 2021 Five Ways to Repent Saint John Chrysostom shows us five practical ways to repent. He says: The first way is to condemn yourself for your sins. The Lord…
January 17, 2021 The Value of Gratitude: How Can We Repay the Lord for All His Good? The Utmost Price The one thing that each of us can repay the Lord with is our humility, for its value in the eyes…
January 8, 2021 The History of Everything from before the Beginning till after the End – Part Two Christ is born! Glorify him! Christ did not arrive “out of the clear blue”, without warning. There had been long centuries of preparation –…
January 4, 2021 Love or Forgiveness: Which Comes First? Luke 7: 36-50 Philippians 4: 10 – 23 One of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him. Jesus went to the Pharisee’s…
December 30, 2020 Are You Comfortable? Recently I was reading a foreign-language newspaper (well, the English part of it) and there was an article in it about the church. My…
December 25, 2020 Spiritual Testament of the Holy Elder Paisios, Found in Panagouda, His Cell on Mount Athos, after his Death in 1994 On October 20, 1993, Elder Paisios, despite being in great pain, went to the Koutloumousiou Monastery, to which his cell belonged, and greeted hegumen…
