The Gloomy Mountains and the Lifting of the Banner- The Holy Cross
The Holy Cross is our banner on the gloomy mountain
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Today’s Reading from Proverbs and Enduring “Being Killed All the Day Long”
At today’s vespers, I was impressed by a part of a passage that is often read at celebrated saints’ vespers and happened to fall in today’s regular reading of Proverbs. It says that Wisdom “has slaughtered her beasts; she has…
The Nun Who Threw the Icon into the River – Video by Gregory Decapolite
Every kind of new iconoclasm will way heavy on our souls…
12 Reasons Orthodox Christians Light Candles in Church. Worshipping in Spirit and Truth.
In order to truly worship in Spirit and Truth, Orthodox Christians should know the meaning of whatever they do in Church or in private prayer. Below are 12 symbolisms of lighting candles in Church. 6 from Saint Symeon of Thessalonica…
“After Dark, all Cats are Leopards” – Saying of the Juni Native American Indian Tribe
If You Haven’t Studied Holy Orthodoxy, Then You Probably Won’t Notice When It’s Not Really Present Isn’t it true? Most so-called “Orthodox” have deep darkness about matters of the Faith. They haven’t studied it, they haven’t lived it. They haven’t…
Can We Dare to REMAIN?
I admit it, change takes a lot of courage. And repentance, the most significant mode of life for an Orthodox Christian has to do with changing. Repentance in Greek is metanoia μετάνοια. Metanoia literally means to make a change of…
They Shut the Gates of the Kingdom…Based on Today’s (13/26 of August 2019) Gospel’s Reading
Matthew 23: 13-22 “13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14Woe unto you, scribes and…
Study in the School of Philosophy
Vanity are all the works and quests of man, and they have no being after death has come; our wealth is with us no longer. How can our glory go with us? For when death has come all these things…
I Wish You Enough
I WISH YOU ENOUGH. Recently, I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport as the daughter’s departure had been announced. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said: “I love you…