Fr Seraphim Rose+ on Seeing Reality
“Our spiritual life is not something bookish or that follows formulas. Everything we learn has to become part of our life and something natural to us. We can be...
Elder St Paisios on Finding Spiritual Friends
“Those who want to live a spiritual life will eventually find that they are not able to do it in this world; they will be searching to find people...
Elder Ephraim of Arizona on the Judgement
“The years roll by and pass, and day by day each one of us draws closer and closer to the end of his life. Our precious time rolls by...
Elder St. Porphyrios on Leaving Things in God’s Hands
“We shouldn’t blackmail God with our prayers. We shouldn’t ask God to release us from something, from an illness, for example, or to solve our problems, but we should...
Metropolitan Onuphry on Adoration
“History tells us that the Magi, who are also called kings, came not from one country, but from three different countries: Persia, Arabia, and Ethiopia. All of them, independent...
Meaning of the Names in Christ’s Geneology
Abraham—“father of many”; Isaac—“laughter”; Jacob (Israel)—“deceiver” (“warrior of God”); Judah—“praising”; Phares—“gap”, “opening”; Esrom—“blossoming”; Aram—“high”; Aminadab—“generous”; Naasson—“charmer”; Salmon—“dark” Booz—“clever” Ovid—“worshipping” Jesse—“wealth” David—“brother of the father”, “beloved” David—“brother of the father”,...
Redeeming the Time Part 2
“How many stones there are scattered about! Millions, billions, and we tread upon them without even noticing them. Yet gold is collected in tiny grains, and one gram of...
Redeeming the Time Part 1
“The Apostle Paul writes regarding time that we walk circumspectly “…Redeeming the time, because the days are evil…” Thus he concisely said… the days are evil, life is short,...
Elder St. Porphyrios on our Personal Freedom
“God in His omniscience knows in all precision not simply beforehand, but before the creation of the world, that this person, for example, will commit a murder when he...
(St. Nikolai Velimirovich on Christ’s Pure Love
“The love which Christ revealed to the world, my dear, is the love from “before the foundation of the world” (John 17: 24). That love, therefore, is not temporal...