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How can we keep our faith in a rapidly secularizing world? How do we resist the temptations of ideas that promise quick solutions to the world’s problems? With his life and teachings, he answered many of these questions and brought thousands…
The joyous Easter season or Paschaltide is finally here! In the Orthodox Church, this season starts on Easter Sunday (April 12th) and continues for forty days until the eve of the feast of Ascension, which falls on May 21th this year.
Out of pride, we isolate ourselves from others and also from God. Instead, we must be willing to do God’s will, even when it is different from ours. We must be prepared to put aside our desires, however painful it might seem.
Here is the story of an Egyptian ascetic who sold himself into slavery to save a stranger, travelled penniless across the sea, and gathered nothing but spiritual riches wherever he went.
This interview follows Zufar “Uncle Vanya” Mukhamadiev from youthful searching to a vocation in mosaic. He learned that the art before him and the work within him are one labour. Each tessera placed, each step of obedience — together they make a life…
Believers seeking comfort during difficult times will find immense peace in his surviving homily. He eloquently answers our hardest questions about why God permits sickness or poverty to touch our lives.
This is a story of the quiet power of Christian humility in a noisy world. Believers will find immense comfort in seeing how simple acts of charity draw troubled souls to God.
