Elder Anthimos+ on the Return of Erring Young People
“They become more steadfast than those who have not suffered. The Almighty God, Who made the invisible Angels and all visible things on the earth, made heaven, and made...
Archpriest Stephen Freeman on ‘Forced’ Ascesis
“I make a weekly visit to a nursing home about an hour away. I have a dear parishioner who has been in that place, or similar places, for about...
Elder Cleopa+ on Translation vs Error
“The teachings of the Church of Christ are guarded by the Holy Spirit and cannot err (Mat. 10:17-20, John 4: 16-26, 1 Tim. 3:15). The very founder of the...
St Nikolai on the Church
“The Church of Christ is One, Holy, Universal and Apostolic. She is herself a single spiritual body, whose head is Christ, and who has the one Holy Spirit abiding...
Elder Ephraim of Arizona on Pain
“Here in this vain world, my child, we shall be afflicted, we shall be embittered, we shall feel pain. But all this is for a limited time; it is...
On the Need for Vigilance
“This is why vigilance is called for all throughout the Scriptures. Mindfulness is a virtue that calls us to remember our failings. I believe that is a rightful word...
Elder Cleopa+ on the Scriptures
[Holy Scripture]… is not sufficient to guide man to salvation, inasmuch as, firstly, it wasn’t given to man from the beginning and, secondly, when it was given it wasn’t...
Elder Cleopa+ on the Scriptures
… “Holy Scripture is understood and explained in three ways: 1) according to its literal meaning, namely the nominal, grammatical, verbal and historical, 2) allegorically or metaphorically, which is...
Fr Seraphim Rose on True Accounts of the Beyond
“True Christian experiences of heaven always bear one and the same stamp of other-worldly experience. Those who have In held heaven have not merely travelled to a different place;...
Elder St. Porphyrios on the Intensity of Prayer
“God is everywhere present and fills all things. I try to take wings to infinity and fly amidst the stars. My mind is lost in the magnificence of God’s...