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I have a friend that has been borrowing money from me for 2 years. She keeps telling me that she will pay it back but till now she has never paid me. My question is... do I have to keep lending her money?
I feel the pull to monasticism, but I also have an overwhelming amount of love to give and feel the desire to give it to a husband. How do I choose? Is it wrong for an Orthodox woman to stay single in the world?
Our minds often wander and try to lead us away from God. There are different extremes, and the enemy, seeing our tendencies toward such scrupulousness, convinces us that we are unworthy. Some people live for years with grave…
I always have a fight between my heart and mind, typically when wanting to have the Eucharist (Communion). My heart really yearns for taking the Communion during liturgy but my mind always tells me that I don’t deserve it…
For quite a number of years I have seen the need for a change in my life so that I can find spiritual peace, the way our holy fathers describe it. The thought of becoming a nun does not leave me. I am It hasn't left me for…
Keep searching and knocking on the door. Often, we cannot feel God's presence because our inner world is too restless and turbulent. We are constantly rushing, and always running late.
The world constantly tries to deceive people and prevent them from entering the Church and finding God, so it seeks explanations within the human psyche.
Now, there's an important distinction to understand: the outward appearance and the inner reality. Some people suffer from physical or mental illness. But we must remember to look beyond the external.
Father Andrey Lemeshonok answers the question from one of our readers: “How to know if the person you’re with is to be your wife/husband and if God wants you two to be together?"
You should find your way to a church and and take holy baptism. Then a new life will begin for you, and you will not be looking forward to a tragic conclusion, but rather to a new beginning.
