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Degrees of Spiritual Perfection

By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos “The most important work of the Church is to cure man.  Therefore the Orthodox Church is a Hospital, an infirmary[…]

The Divine Darkness

By St Gregory of Nyssa What does it mean that Moses entered the darkness and then saw God in it? What is now recounted seems[…]

The Bread, The Wine, and The Mode Of Being

by Chrysostom Koutloumousianos, Hieromonk The recent reappearance of the ancient terror of a pandemic has prompted fertile conversation among theologians and literary people across the[…]

Three Saints of Hope and Pain

by Dr Nikolaos Koios It’s a profound conviction of the Orthodox Church that every epoch has its own saints and there’s not a single age[…]

God Is With Us

My dears! I should like to speak with you, seated at a cup of coffee. See, I have prepared coffee for myself, sweet, just as[…]

“I LEARNED FROM HIM HOW TO LIVE AND HOW TO DIE”

How Fr. Seraphim (Rose) Influenced the Life of One Future Priest An interview by Jesse Dominick with Fr Martin Person Matushka Sarah Person, and Martha[…]

“ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL WAS A PARTY, AND I WAS DOING PROSTRATIONS”

I was born in 1967, and grew up, like all my peers, in an atmosphere of atheism...

The Saint, the Priest, and Face-tattoos

By Fr Photios Parks Some years back, there was a point in my life when I didn’t give a second thought to the Saints. I[…]

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[…]