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

But people who believe in God should not despond, because through sorrows they receive the rights of sons, without which one cannot enter...

The Jesus Prayer... Every true Christian must always remember and never forget that he needs to be united with the Lord and Savior with...

The existence of Russia is of a great spiritual and cultural value – not only for you and me, but for all humanity. The special value of...

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...

hollow /hŏl′ō/ adjective 1. Having a cavity, gap, void or space within. This re-published post is longer than normal. But it's...

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

Living in this age of information consumption places new burdens on us as humans, subjecting us to a different form of enslavement....

Entrust your health to God. If your illness or the doctor imposes something on you, accept it with the hope that through it God will...

May the Lord give us all the spiritual and physical strength to survive these times. Send, O Lord, Thy mercy to every one of us....

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...

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,...

"If you will have patience in difficulties, you know the Holy Spirit is within you. If you will also have the strength to be thankful in...

Cling to our sweet Jesus, cry out to Him in your afflictions. Entrust to Him the care of grievous things and He will do good to you....

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...