16 May 2013

C. Providence No matter how many turbulences we face in life, we ought to remain steadfast and peac...

14 May 2013

A.  DIVINE DELIGHT AND HUMAN LOVE “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased”  “The Lord i...

26 April 2013

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins accord...

17 April 2013

It’s true that within the realm of Christianity, there’s often more talk of sin than there is of vir...

7 April 2013

The Third Sunday of Lent is called “The Veneration of the Cross”. At the Vigil of that day, after th...

6 April 2013

Through the Cross, Christ sanctified His body- the link with the world. He rejected the temptations ...

2 April 2013

The second Sunday in Great Lent comes as an extension of the Sunday of Orthodoxy. On this day, the C...

31 March 2013

On the first Sunday of the Great Lenten Fast, our Church celebrates the victory of Orthodoxy over th...

24 March 2013

On the first Sunday of Lent, we celebrate the Sunday of Orthodoxy, that is to say the feast of the r...

14 March 2013

In chapter four of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians by Saint Paul,  we read very profound and s...

10 March 2013

Nothing else in life is so certain as that we shall die. The fact that we were born and are in this ...

1 March 2013

The deepest desire of each one of us is to have a livivng relationship with God and to enjoy His hol...

10 February 2013

          A tropario of the liturgical Service in honour of the Forty Martyrs says: ‘Suffering wit...

24 January 2013

The Liturgy as Pedagogical Tradition The Liturgy preserves Apostolic, Christian teaching that preda...

18 January 2013

 Post-Apostolic Development Again, it is not the purpose of this essay to provide a detailed narr...

16 January 2013

Since the Reformation, the polemics between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism have centered on the...

6 December 2012

According to Saint Gregory, mourning is the most natural and spontaneous expression of the soul woun...

30 November 2012

As we all know, Saint Gregory Palamas is a great luminary of the Orthodox Church, who with the whole...

19 November 2012

5. According to the mystical interpreter Saint John of Damascus, in the human world the God-man, Chr...

14 November 2012

1. After God, man is, without a doubt, the most mysterious and enigmatic entity in all the realms of...

25 October 2012

The subject of this presentation is “The Holy Memorial Services”, that is the intercessions by the C...

11 August 2012

  The ancient Greeks came down into what became their territory at the beginning of the 2nd mille...

2 August 2012

The vision of God is presented in the Holy Scriptures in two different forms which appear to be mu...

19 July 2012

The Westminster Confession of Faith-the principle doctrinal statement of English-speaking Calvinis...

16 July 2012

How easily we Orthodox indiscriminately adopt the language of Western theology! It is always a great...

24 June 2012

Growing up Lutheran I always believe the veneration of saints by Roman Catholics and Orthodox Chri...

21 June 2012

            The symbol of the cross is ubiquitous in society. It is printed on bumper stickers and...

14 June 2012

Charles Williams, one of C.S. Lewis’ circle of friends, once wrote a book entitled, The Descent in...

13 June 2012

One early morning not long ago I woke with a strange physical sense of myself as the product of eo...

12 June 2012

St. John, in the prologue of his gospel, says the following: And the Word became flesh an...

10 June 2012

In the Vanity of Their Minds Introduction: Are Protestants Beyond Hope? Since my conversion from E...

5 June 2012

The recent reports of Mother Teresa’s long dark night made more news than they should have, I thou...

4 June 2012

  As we celebrate Christ’s Paschal victory – these thoughts are offered on the nature of our deli...

3 June 2012

“God will save the World Through Beauty” This saying, often attributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky, ne...

31 May 2012

Recently I was asked about a supposed contradiction in the writings of St. Paul. In Romans 2:13 S...

2 May 2012

You’ve got to get out of your head and into your heart. Right now your thoughts are in your head, ...

24 April 2012

"A thousand words from the pen, in a stream; but ten thousand miles away from the theme." ...

23 April 2012

By Monk Moses the Athonite In one of its hymns, our Church calls the unbelief of Thomas "good"....

19 April 2012

Pontius Pilate’s cry has been echoed down the ages and it seems that it has a particular resonance...

17 April 2012

“Then Nebouchodonosor was filled with anger, and the appearance of his face was distorted against ...

10 April 2012

In the Gospel of John, we read that Christ attended a wedding in Cana of Galilee along with His di...

2 April 2012

Some Non-Orthodox Christians tend to read more into the Holy Bible than is really there; they want...

27 March 2012

Few teachings of the Christian faith are as easily misunderstood and equally misapplied as the thi...

26 March 2012

If one wishes to study the Scriptures, one of the most important things that he must do is to ac...

26 March 2012

“As the flame blazed up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame. S...

3 March 2012

       One of the great spiritual figures of monasticism, St Sabbas, is honoured today. Yet he i...

28 January 2012

          St John Climax, the guiding light and the crown of monasticism whose memory we are celebra...

18 January 2012

Over the past few years, there has been an enormous popular interest in Gnosticism and early Christi...

16 January 2012

The Lord always seeks to find the proper intention in man for it is said that ‘Each one must give ...

15 January 2012

          After the fall man has come under the yoke not only of sin (dispersed throughout his body)...

10 January 2012

"Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and was glad”. Then the Jews said to Him,...

6 January 2012

“The thrones were set and the Ancient of Days took His seat. His raiment was white as snow, and the ...

30 December 2011

We have spoken earlier about the cause of all evil. We are not hesitating however to speak again a...

30 December 2011

            Christ is the living truth. “I am the way, and the truth and the life” (John 14, 6). T...

21 December 2011

Nowadays when science and technology are flying, when cultures converge and there is a crisis in val...

13 December 2011

The greatest ecological disaster described in the Scriptures is the flood during Noah’s times; it ...

13 December 2011

Man has been trying to make sense of the creation ever since antiquity as it is manifested in the ...

17 November 2011

In June of 1986, I attended the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention as a "messenger" f...

7 November 2011

 We appeal to God for the healing of our souls and bodies only as a last resort. God’s healing is al...

2 November 2011

My immediate answer to both parts of this question is a very affirmative ‘Yes’. God does not cha...

31 October 2011

Christ, as the true and universal man, is the measure of all things for all people. He is the ultima...

31 October 2011

            The symbol of the cross is ubiquitous in society. It is printed on bumper stickers and t...