Death to the World

Don’t Judge By Appearances

Photo: Monks of the brotherhood venerating the cross of their reposed Elder (Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi) He showed me many trees that had no leaves;[…]

300,000 Priests Were Given a Choice – They All Chose Death

They could have rejected their priesthood and saved their lives. But they didn’t under Bolshevik persecution… 300,000 priests were killed during the Communist era. They[…]

Stop Saying “Glory to God for All Things!”

A testimony offered by Hieromonk Synesios. “A few years ago, I was the parish priest of St. Vasileios church (Piraeus) and was called to hear[…]

Suffering with Christ in Orahovac

by Josef Candelario   If there is one thing I’ll never forget about Kosovo, it’s Orahovac. There was a time when Muslim Albanians and Serbian[…]

When Fr Benedict Resurrected His Dead Benefactor

Archimandrite Benedict Petrakis (+ September 8, 1961) developed a magnificent pastoral activity in the Metropolis of Aitoloakarnania and especially in Agrinio. Many spiritual branches of[…]

The Tower of Skulls

By Josef Candelario “I saw a large tower rising in the midst of the plain, as white as Parisian marble… [R]aising my eyes to the[…]

The Great River: Christianity and Paganism

From Death to the World #XXVI By Deacon Joseph Magnus Frangipani By the time I arrive in New Delhi, leaping pockets of green slime lining[…]

Attend to Thyself: Attentiveness and Digital Culture

«Πρόσεχε σεαυτῷ»: Attentiveness and Digital Culture Fr. Maximos Constas Senior Research Scholar Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology International Conference on Digital Media and[…]

José Muñoz-Cortez: Chosen of the Mother of God

The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad was making preparations to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Myrrh-streaming Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, when it[…]

Orthodox Spirituality and The Technological Revolution

From “The Authentic Seal: Spiritual Instruction and Discourses,” by Archimandrite Aimilianos, Former Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Simonos Petras, Mount Athos. Introduction A great[…]

OUR ORIGIN

Youth of the Apocalypse. Part I. Chapter I. CHILDREN OF WAR IN the beginning when there was peace, mankind was given the fearful and noble[…]