After Communion, the Priest enters the Holy Altar and places the Holy Things upon the Holy Table. The Deacon then holds the Holy Diskos...

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

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,...

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....

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

When over the gloomy and deep abyss of grief, sorrows suddenly open before us - carry on up - on the wings of faith! Saint Ignatius...

Do not resent. Do not react. Keep inner stillness. These three spiritual principles, or disciplines, are really a summation of the...

Do not resent. Do not react. Keep inner stillness. These three spiritual principles, or disciplines, are really a summation of the...

We benefit greatly from our illnesses, as long as we endure them without complaint and glorify God, asking for His mercy. Saint...

When you are forgotten, or neglected and you don't hurt with the insult, but your heart is happy - that is dying to self. Orthodox Africa...

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

Christ visits us. He is with us. He is in us. He heals us. We pray in the Trisagion prayers, “Holy One visit and heal our infirmities...

Oh, if man would only lift his mind above this earthly realm to the heavenly Jerusalem, to the inconceivable beauty of paradise where...

The Lord gave us the Holy Spirit, and the man in whom the Holy Spirit lives feels that he has paradise within him. Saint Silouan the...

The soul has to make a choice, and the outcome will either break it into pieces or enable it to sail to its destination in God....

It is impossible to escape tribulation in this world but the man who is given over to the will of God bears tribulation easily, seeing it...

How are you to know if you are living according to the will of God? He who lives according to God's will has no cares. The soul given...

Set aside your wish to find peace on this earth pre-maturely in order to receive it in time. That is, upon our death. Put to death your...

Within our culture of noise 24/7 - a paradox occurs. Counterintuitively what garners the most impact is not who is the loudest, or talks...