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“When you sit down to eat, pray.  When you eat bread, do so thanking Him for being so generous to you.  If you drink wine, be mindful of Hi...

"Do not turn to mediums or seek out spirits, for you will be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God … I will set my face against the p...

    St. Lazarus’ tomb, Bethany. Largely ignored by much of Christendom, the Orthodox today celebrate ”Lazarus Saturday” in something of a pr...

The first and foremost reason why our intention to correct ourselves and lead a holy life remains without result lies in the fact that our i...

What is the essence of Orthodoxy?  It is the God-man Christ.  Everything that is Orthodox has a divine-human character: knowledge, the sens...

On the third Sunday of the Triodion, our Church sets before us the  fearsome Second Coming of the Lord.  During the previous two Sundays, t...

One day, a family came to the monastery from Belgrade . They had an only son who was taking drugs for many years . The doctors had told him ...

“God is everywhere.  There is no place God is not…You cry out to Him, ‘Where art Thou, my God?’ And He answers, “I am present, my child! I ...

It was a beautiful spring morning in the far away country of Sudan. There was unusual activity at the international airport of the capital ...

Death, for men who understand it, is immortality; while for the simple, who do not understand it, it is death. And one should not fear this ...