May 5, 2020 Is Orthodoxy Light Over? One friend of mine, a bright man and a talented musician, while being healthy treated faith ironically, sometimes making vulgar jokes on a Christian…
May 5, 2020 God in the Life of Man One famous Soviet actor, summing up his life, described his greatest tragedy as follows, “I forgot God”. Surprisingly, in our time, even Christians do…
April 30, 2020 Both Sorrow and Joy Can Serve for Salvation “Two monks once fell into a grave sin. But, in time, they repented and said: “Well, what benefit have we received by leaving the…
April 22, 2020 The Prospects of Living Without Church: Online Confession and Communion as in the 4th Century A fragment of a conversation with Archbishop Theodosius (Snigiryov) of Boyarka, suffragan bishop under Metropolitan Onuphrius of Kiev and All Ukraine. In view of…
April 17, 2020 Crucify Him! – Why Do People First Greet Christ and Then Demand His Death? So it came to pass… The same people who greeted Jesus as He entered Jerusalem, shout “Crucify Him” five days later. There is some…
April 13, 2020 Social vs. Spiritual Distancing At the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the secular authorities have implemented “social distancing” as one of the crucial measures in the fight against…
April 11, 2020 The Strange Case of Lazarus St. John’s Gospel records the story of Christ’s raising Lazarus from the dead as the last action of Christ before His entry into Jerusalem….
April 10, 2020 Archimandrite Andrew Konanos: What Does It Mean to Be a Servant of God? When you fast, you don’t come to God to tell Him: “I am doing this now. I want to get paid. I fasted, now…
April 7, 2020 Imitating St Mary of Egypt in the Loneliness of Our Homes What is a desert as understood by the Holy Fathers? How to preserve peace in the family during isolation? Why is any end a…
April 7, 2020 Blessed Rather In the bad ol’ days when I was still highly resistant to what I now call “Holy Tradition” I was keen to sniff out…
