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...

The initial quote is from: https://athonitetestimony.com/why-dont-we-receive-help/ Sometimes it happens that even after deep, insistent...

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...

What is Orthodoxy? by Archbishop Averky of Syracuse and Holy Trinity Monastery ON THE FIRST SUNDAY of the Great Fast our Church...

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,...

"See that Ye Walk Circumspectly" (Ephesians 5:15) by Archbishop Averky (Taushev) of blessed memory In more modern language these words...

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..."

From St. Dimitri of Rostov, "On the Inner Man", chapter 2 CHAPTER 2. On prayer that invigorates a man and unites him in love to God ...

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

The homily from the Prologue of Ochrid, for today, December 9th/22nd(NS) Before the reading, let us remember the words of St. James that...

By Fr. Seraphim Rose NEVER HAS THERE BEEN such an age of false teachers as this pitiful 20th century, so rich in material gadgets and so...

St. Mark the Ascetic: Counsels on the Spiritual Life; The Mind’s Advice to Its Own Soul; “Rejoice When We are Wronged” "It is necessary,...

Why do you look to others?

One of my brother priests told me this story about prayer. "I arrived to a home many years ago to bless it and the occupying family...

From (St.) Nikolai Velimirovic's Missionary Letters, letter 162 As one returning home from a great distance, so you feel now returning...

From "Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaak of Syria," Homily 58 To choose what is good belongs to the good volition of the man who desires it;...

By Hieromonk Arsenius of Mt. Athos; Originally from "Athonite Leaflets" #105 St. Panteleimon's Monastery 1905 (Hieromonk Arsenius was a...