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...

Why do men leave one place and settle in another place? Primarily because they hope that they will be more fortunate in the other place....

For every man, peace of soul is precious. From perpetual vigilance over the heart, purity is born, in which the Lord is seen according...

The gateway to the Fast has been opened. The arena of abstinence lies here before us. Let us rouse ourselves with fiery eagerness, and so...

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...

Any Orthodox Christian who does even the least bit of spiritual reading will come across the Slavic word “podvig.” While this word can be...