The goal of the striving of fasting, the striving of all our struggles – of repentance, prayer, and our entreaties – is to aspire toward the unveiling in us of the image of God inscribed in our ...
Every day of Great Lent, with the exception of Saturdays and Sundays, the prayer “O Lord and Master of my life” is read. According to tradition, this prayer was written in Syria in the fourth century ...
We have fully entered Great Lent. Some of us were lucky enough to attend the beautiful Lenten Services, to hear the quiet and deep “Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me!” Others worked or stayed ...
The essential feature of our Orthodoxy is that, for it, Christianity is not a theory, but rather the very life in Christ, following the precepts of the Gospel and the determinations of the Church.
Let us give some thought to what it actually means for Christ to become the center of our lives. Perhaps this means placing a large icon in the icon corner? So we do so. Perhaps this means making use ...
We should remember that we ourselves very often provoke the feeling of envy in those around us. Sometimes vexing an envious person, provoking him to a feeling of envy, can cause pleasure. For ...
