The Pilgrimage of Life
“It is a long journey to that Kingdom. The word “journey” has been very overused in the past few decades throughout Orthodox North America. It has most often been...
Elder Cleopa+ on Holy Tradition
“Just as people were guided in the knowledge of God and on the path of salvation by Holy Tradition alone (that is, by a living voice—oral tradition) during the...
Fasting Spiritually
Living in an age in which man much too easily lives for the sake of exterior effects, we can be fooled into thinking that fasting from food should be...
Elder Ephraim of Arizona on Temptations
“He chastens us a little in order to keep us humble, for He knows how easily our weak human nature changes, how easily it turns towards evil. He treats...
St. Tikhon on Evangelism
“In the first centuries it was not only the pastors who were tortured, but lay persons as well – men, women, and even children. And it was lay people...
Elder St Paisios on the Conscience
“…when things are put in their proper place, the conscience is awakened and the censuring starts. And if a person is not humbled, he can be driven to despair...
Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi+ on Rewards of Struggle
“Our Lord promises to those who wish to follow Him with the appropriate self denial, a hundredfold reward in this life and His eternal kingdom in the afterlife. By...
Elder Arsenie Papacioc on Love
“We need to love much! For Christ is commanding us! Lets be attentive, love is the criteria of [the last] judgment! When Christ asked us to love, He also...
Fr. Seraphim Rose+ on Active Faith
“ Protestants have a simple and warm Christian faith without much of the sectarian narrowness that characterizes many Protestant groups. They don’t believe, like some Protestants, that they are...
Metropolitan Silouan Muci on the Manger in the World
“Today, our churches are a manger in the center of the world. Among us are Mary, Joseph, the shepherds and the magi, and with them the new-born who comes...