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...

St. John of Kronstadt The Divine Liturgy is truly a heavenly service upon earth, during which God Himself, in a particular, immediate,...

Brief life of Archbishop Ioasaph, founder of St. Vladimir's church, Edmonton from “The Orthodox Word”, March-April 1968 It was Novgorod...

Originally from Orthodox America, Issue 140, Vol XV, No. 8,May – June, 1996 I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in...

From the Prologue of Ochrid, for June 29th, according to the Church Calendar, celebrating the Apostles Peter and Paul Pass the time of...

St Luke (1:1-25, 57-68, 80) "Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a narration of those things which have been...

By St. Theophan the Recluse Originally printed in "Orthodox Life" Vol 27 #6 Nov.-Dec. 1977 What does one say to the person who asks: "How...

You are enduring terrible slander, as I hear. Accept what consolation I can offer. Nothing happens to us without God; therefore, the...

From New Martyrs of Russia, 2nd ed., pp. 182-184 by Archpriest Michael Polsky They led me into a room and put me on a bench. I was not...

From the Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 18 Cistercian Publications THE MOST HOLY APOSTLE COMMANDED his children, saying, The Lord is near....

What Has the Feast of Pascha Left in Our Souls? St. John Of Kronstadt And so, the Feast of Feasts has passed by us: and the Royal Gates...

From the Prologue of Ochrid by (St.) Nikolai Velomirovic for the date of May 1st, according to the Church Calendar. "This done, in like...

Tenth Hymn on Faith, by St. Ephraim the Syrian Lord, Thou hast had it written: ‘Open thy mouth and I will fill it.’ See, Lord, Thy...

Forgive the lateness of this post. I meant to do it yesterday between services but I came down with a bit of sickness. This short and...

St. Philaret the Confessor On Holy and Great Friday (April 14/27, 1973) In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy...

A Sonnet, by Ephraim Figueroa, with permission. And when I think of all my days gone by, Which seem like waves that beat against the...

From the Prologue of Ochrid, by Nikolai Velomirovic, for April 1st; Reflection "Why is it that much is said and written about the...