September 26, 2020 98 0 It is not a Monastery or Scholarship that Saves a Person Some Christians think that for a person to be saved, one must either join a monastery or study the Divine law top to bottom….
September 24, 2020 106 2 The Heart Is Like the Center of the Cross Mark 7: 14-24 Gal. 6: 2-10 The Lord said, “… there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into…
September 21, 2020 88 0 On the Twofold Ministry. Nativity of Most Holy Theotokos Luke 1: 39-49, 56 Luke 10: 38–42, 11: 27–28 At first glance, the Gospel read at the liturgy on almost all feasts of the…
September 17, 2020 314 0 What We Give to God, He Returns to Us a Hundredfold, not Only in the Future Life, but Also in the Present A word about the young man who added ten golden coins of his own as he was forging a cross for a patrician There…
September 14, 2020 196 0 Main Reason of Retreating from God Backslide from God does not happen overnight. It happens when a person stops too early on the way of getting to know God. This…
September 11, 2020 382 0 The Parable of the Growing Seed and Its Meaning to Our Lives Mark 4:24 – 34 2 Corinthians 12:20–13:2 The Lord gave the following description of the Kingdom of Heaven: “This is what the kingdom of…
August 22, 2020 811 0 We Distance the Guardian Angel from Ourselves because of Our Sins (Homily of Holy Hegumen Anastasius) The Lord is so merciful to us, brethren, that He gives to each of us, at the time of…
August 19, 2020 205 0 Transfiguration of the Lord: the Joy that the Three Apostles Experienced Before His glorious Transfiguration, the Lord spoke to His disciples about His forthcoming suffering on the cross, and about the necessity for everyone to…
August 14, 2020 151 0 Sermon on the Eve of the Feast of the Procession of the Honorable Wood of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord Again, at the onset of fasting, preparation for communion, repentance, and ascetic feats, the Cross of Christ is erected before us; and it makes…
July 20, 2020 239 1 A Lesson of Chastity (The Story of the Grand Duchess Eudocia, tonsured as Euphrosyne, the wife of the Grand Duke Dimitri Ioannovich Donskoy). To be saved, you need…