Every Christian is a witness to God. Think of what a witness is in our ordinary lives. In court, a witness is someone who must truthfully relate that which he saw and heard, honestly and truthfully ...
To mark the Leavetaking (Apososis) of the Feast of the Ascension, we offer the following reflection by Fr. Alexander Men
Every time we look upon the Cross of Christ we are like the Prophet. We, too, see the Lord of Glory: yet neither on a Throne surrounded by lightening, thunder, and clouds, nor among blinding light, ...
We get up in the morning, go about our business, cook, eat, sleep, and get up again… So does each one of our days pass. We forget that human life is suspended on a fine thread that can snap at any ...
Then he went and declared that it was Jesus Who had ordered him to violate the law of God on the Sabbath. The old man betrayed Him Who had healed him after so many years of serious illness, after ...
Have not many of us also come to the Lord in this way, ashamed and hiding? I still have a picture in my memory of something I saw many years ago. It was far away, in Siberia, on Pascha. It was night, ...
It is we. We did not see the Lord during the time of His earthly life. But we see Him with our spiritual eyes; He is alive among us, and we do not need to touch Him. How many people there were who ...
Christ, risen invisibly, appears tangibly to each person. In the lives of each of us who has felt the proximity of other worlds if only for a moment, a meeting with the Risen Lord is accomplished; He ...
