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The following is a guest post graciously written by my spiritual father, Abbot Tryphon. The Very Rev. Fr. Tryphon is a priest-monk of the Russian Orthodox[…]

“In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, I leave the following will to be executed by my[…]

“The following passage is how Fr. George Calciu concludes a story about a time when, imprisoned by the Communists, he asked one of the cruelest[…]

“…This is the way we should see Christ. He is our friend, our brother; He is whatever is good and beautiful. He is everything. Yet,[…]

“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love[…]

What I had pictured as a peaceful and anticipatory trip to All-Merciful Saviour Monastery on Vashon Island was quickly thrown right out the window. My[…]

To choose Orthodox Christianity here in North America is to immediately place oneself apart from the majority. I learned this firsthand the other night when[…]

“I find no peace and I am not at war, I fear and hope, and burn and I am ice; I fly above the heavens,[…]

“The entire devil is found here: in the desire to exclude God, in the desire to always be by himself, to always belong only to[…]

As a former Roman Catholic, I used to always view the Orthodox with a kind of annoyance at what I termed their “crankiness”, their “stubborn[…]

“They wandered about in sheepkins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented – of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains,[…]