At the Paschal Divine Liturgy it is the custom that the priest not give his own sermon, but rather read the Paschal sermon of St.…
It’s easy to be a Christian and to love God when things are going well with us. On a warm, spring day we might spontaneously…
As a young woman in the city of Alexandria, Egypt, Saint Mary became a prostitute. She did not do this because of necessity but to…
On this day the church commemorates St. John of the Ladder. He is called this because he wrote a book on the human soul and…
We are all very aware that we live in “this world”, the world of labor, illness, fear, depression, etc. We seem to be very far…
St. Nicholas of Japan as born in 1836 in Smolensk Province, the son of a deacon. After graduating from the St. Petersburg Theological Academy in…