January 11, 2021 Why Did the Son of God Appear in a Humbled State? In the ways of Divine Providence, the Lord God found a means of revealing Himself to people so that the fire of His Divinity…
January 10, 2021 Dimitri Kuntsevich Shares Memories of His Acquaintance with Archimandrite Gregory (Zumis) — The abbot of the Dochiariou monastery, Archimandrite Gregory (Zumis), was a hard-working man who loved simple monastic work. For many Athonite monasteries, a…
December 7, 2020 The Feast of the Entrance and the Protoevangelium of James Much of the hymnography adorning our Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple causes the raising of eyebrows—talk about Mary being…
November 1, 2020 The Ministry of Suffering For those of us who are generally physically healthy, it is easy to assume that the real spiritual life consists of such activities as…
October 20, 2020 “Isn’t It Cowardice to Beware of Diseases and Other Misfortunes?” Let’s Look at the Example of the Apostles Peter and Paul For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain: these famous words of the Apostle Paul (Phil. 1:21) have long become…
October 1, 2020 Why Does God Put Us Through Trials? So that we finally believe in Him. The unit for measuring faith has not been invented yet, but its value determines the degree and…
September 28, 2020 Met Saba (Esber): Maxims on the Cross The cross is my life and there is no life except through the cross. Jesus will continually look down with open arms because He…
September 18, 2020 Why Is Fear an Enemy of Faith? To have faith means to trust the Lord and to sense His living presence in one’s life. Faith brings us our inner peace, tranquillity…
September 15, 2020 Prohibition Was Introduced in This Russian Monastery Village Kostylevo, Sverdlovsk region. Half a thousand kilometers to Yekaterinburg. A little more than 10 years ago, a monastery was established here — Kosminskaya…
September 12, 2020 Can a Christian Be Demon-Possessed? Believe it or not, I am sometimes asked the question “Can a Christian be demon-possessed?” Not often, admittedly, since our culture declares that demons…
