Terrible is the approach of death to people who are passionate, sinful and weak, who have not tried to live blamelessly in this vain...

Suffering is an indication of another Kingdom which we look to. If being Christian meant being “happy” in this life, we wouldn’t need...

Remember, O man, that thou art dust. And unto dust shalt thou return. Riches do not remain. Glory does not accompany one to the other...

Now is the time. Let your Light shine. I reflected upon the day my life will end and I groaned when I saw the multitude of my...

The answer to our anxiety is not drugs, alcohol, tranquilizers or psychiatric treatment. The anxieties of modern life are only symptoms...

Be at peace. Put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations. Do not look forward in fear to those changes and struggles in life, rather...

Another reason why human suffering is a mystery to an unbeliever is because his very idea of God is false. Father Seraphim (Rose) Modern...

One such candle was Romanian priest Fr. George Calciu. He and his family lived quietly until the communist government renewed its...

In the Eucharist, the baptized person receives Christ Who, in His Body and Blood, gives Himself entirely, not just as man, but also as...

I have no fear. Because I have given myself to Him, because I have surrendered myself to Him, I have no fear. I’m on my way to heaven....

But suffering, as the crowning of a man bearing his cross, gives birth in his heart to great Divine joy. As a mother grieves during the...

No one knows about it while it’s lying in the drawer. No one cares. But if you purposely place it on a red hot glowing coal, it fills the...

Not in flowers and gold, not in silver and precious stones is found the value of the Cross, but in the wounds of the Lord and His Most...

It is the age with which our true life begins. A man should not despair, no matter how great his sins, for a man is not saved by his good...

"Earthly life—this brief period—is given to man by the mercy of the Creator in order that man may use it for his salvation, that is, for...

There is no one, who in the course of a lifetime, has not had to face some form of illness. It's not 'if' we get sick, but rather 'when'....

This excerpt is taken from an exceptional and timely book authored by Physician and Orthodox Christian Dr. Daniel B. Hinshaw "Suffering...