A bit more beauty, a bit less conscience, and a slippery life’s path for a woman is ensured. And if there’s a lot of beauty? And if conscience isn’t completely lacking, but has fallen silent, ...
At a much later period many other akathists were created that were modeled on this one: such as, for instance, the akathist to the Sweetest Jesus and the akathists to St. Nicholas and to other ...
Only a few think that it is easy to repent. Repentance is incredibly hard work. Repentance does not consist in saying “I repent,” even if we invoke God’s help. It is in vain that some have deluded ...
Yes, my dear ones, our life is a journey; whoever does not want to advance, whoever thinks it is possible to be a Christian while standing in one place, is deceiving both himself and God
In the morning, finding at least a minute in the midst of your normal daily tasks to stand before His countenance, you will feel how He is gazing at you lovingly and summoning you to labor. God’s ...
We are constantly betraying the Gospel commandments, reckoning them as nothing, but for some reason thinking that were some special trial to befall our lot – such as that which befell the Forty ...
To deny ourselves is an act by which we entrust ourselves to the care and love of God. But trust demands that we make ourselves “vulnerable.” To accept the cross is to stand in a place in which we ...
For the Orthodox this is the fourth week of Great Lent. The Veneration of the Cross. Three weeks of the fast are already behind us
This week, in the very center of Great Lent, the Holy Cross is brought out as a consolation for those who have truly borne the weight of the fast, in full measure, as it should be. But for those like ...
