Metropolitan Tikhon Shevkunov on Preparation for Eternity
From generation to generation, through images and parables the Church tells people about the great truth that each of us must experience, whether we believe or not, whether we...
Gaining Victory in Temptations…
At the moment when your soul is in danger and you are struggling, cry out,‘Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.’ Beat off everything with prayer. This is the...
Abot Silouan on Repentance
During Great Lent of , when all the Orthodox were focused on repentance, covid-19 became pandemic in America. The tenor of our community’s customary Lenten solitude was uniquely colored...
Metropolitan Anthony Pakanich on Old Age…
What can each of us give back to the Lord? Humility. In God’s eyes, it has the ultimate value. How can we comprehend the meaning of humility? Imminent and...
Fr Seraphim Rose+ on Orthodoxy…
The path of salvation is very narrow, but Orthodoxy alone of all the religions is God’s religion; and therefore it does not deny those faculties which God gave...
Fr Seraphim Rose+ on Ageless Faith…
Fr Seraphim Rose+ on Ageless Faith… All of this is the negative side we see surrounding us today, and it is a very real part of the atmosphere we...
The ‘Cross’ of Our Era
We have our time. We have our place—our generation, in the21st century, in America. I did not think we were worthy of a calling to sainthood. How were we...
On the Love of God…
If God first loved us, that we might love Him; and if the highest commandment is love for God and all mankind made in His image; then we must...
Archimandrite Sergius on Giving Thanks
“In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God concerning you in Christ Jesus” (Thes 5:18.) Everything in our life is a gift, “for what do we...
More Benefits from Confession…
The third benefit of frequent confession: even if someone has fallen into a sin that leads to death, if he immediately flees and confesses this sin, he enters into...