What cause could be more outrageous than violence — fatal violence — against the most helpless members of our human community? If that...

The days pass and fly away. The hours run without stopping. In the headlong rush of time the world nears its end. Not one day will...

The life of man hangs by a hair. At every step, our life hangs in the balance. How many millions of people woke up in the morning, never...

“The world” is the general name for all the passions. When we wish to call the passions by a common name, we call them the world. But...

An appeal to the world, from Canonical Russian Orthodox Bishop, Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye and Melitopol, of Ukraine. Addressed to...

I spent my entire life in sickness and sorrows, but without sorrows, how can one be saved? Illness is sent by God in place of and to make...

Sickness exists in the world only because of sin. There would be no sickness at all, neither mental nor physical, if man had not sinned....

The Church is hospital for us. Christ becomes our Doctor. His Love are the Divine Services, and participation in the Sacraments, all of...

I greet you in these bright days of Pascha, with the ever-fragrant newness of the greeting rich with the truth of the Divine energy of...

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing Life! Christ is Risen! Truly He is...

Great and Holy Friday 2023 "Then they delivered Him to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led Him away. And He, bearing His Cross,...

We do not choose the time we are to be born in this world, but we do choose how we will spend our time in this world. We choose how to...

If sickness and suffering can, and should be spiritually transcended and transfigured in Christ, and if they can constitute an ascetic...

How to behave during an illness so that it would be unto salvation. Do not panic and do not lose heart during an illness or aging. What...

My child, do not forget that we are in this world only temporarily and that our life dangles by a thread and that all the desirable...

Freeze dried food, check. Extra batteries, check. Water, check. Gun, Bullets, check, check. Let's see, "What else are we...

In his own words, he admits his mistakes, his misfortune and his miscalculations. And yet, he does not repent. He will not repent. He...

The older I grow, the more I perceive the instability, the vanity of earthly things. Oh, why do we trouble ourselves in vain with all...

We encounter in Christian history, any number of holy people, faced with their own illnesses or the illnesses of those in their care, who...

I feel illness as the love of Christ. I often say to Him: ‘My Christ, Your love knows no limits!’ How I am alive is a miracle. (Offered...