From St. John Chrysostom, third homily on Lazarus and the Rich Man, On Wealth and Poverty Some people, if they stumble at all, or are slandered by anyone, or fall ill with a chronic disease, gout or headache or any such ailment, at once begin to blaspheme. They submit to the pain of the disease, but deprive themselves of its benefit. What are you doing, man, blaspheming your Benefactor, Saviour, Protector, and Guardian? Or do you not see that you are falling down a precipice

Originally printed in Orthodox America, 1989 Can be found at https://roca.org/oa/volume-x/issue-95/gods-providence-in-our-lives/...

It is good for us to be reminded of how powerless we are to stop time and everything that God sends along with it. What are we truly in...

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This is an email I sent to the parishioners here in Portland, regarding current events. Brothers and Sisters, Christ is in our midst!...

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The following is from "The Sunflower; Conforming the WIll of Man to the Will of God" by St. John Maximovitch of Tobolsk "In the Old...

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The following is the homily from the Prologue of Ochrid for yesterday, Sunday the 21st of April, according to the Church Calendar. The...

By St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco To his Orthodox flock in Shanghai 1937 “Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit? And from Thy...

Some folks have problems loading up the schedule, so I thought I'd post an easier-to-read version here. Schedule for remainder of Great...

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By Metropolitan Moses of Toronto In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Brothers and Sisters in Christ,...

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Every year, on the first Sunday of the Great Fast, the  Synodicon  of the Seventh Ecumenical Council is read in the Orthodox Church. The...

"When the Son of Man shall come in His glory..."

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Wherefore have you abandoned Me, O man? Wherefore have you turned away from the One Who loves you? Wherefore have you cleaved to My...