Getting to the Heart
At the very heart of the Jesus Prayer lies the actual experience of the body as the temple of the Spirit; in other words, the Spirit dwells in our body (see 1 C...
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Dying to Self
My guess would be that, for the vast majority of people, their experience with the Orthodox Church would have to do with encountering the Orthodox at a Liturgic...
Halloween: A Few Spiritual Pointers for Orthodox Parents
Fr. George Morelli But whosoever shall cause one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be to his advantage that a millstone turned by an a...
Extremist Language is not Christian
Statement of the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America The Holy Eparchial Synod of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America in its ...
Sermon ~ Not my Gospel, but God’s
The Reading is from St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians 1:11-19 BRETHREN, I would have you know that the gospel which was preached by me is not man’s...
Mending Fences
Many times in Scripture, Jesus uses images of a pastoral nature. He is called the good shepherd, he asks Peter to feed his lambs, and we have the parable of th...
Metropolitan Hilarion’s greeting to the Synod of Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church
Your Holiness, Your Eminences and Excellencies: May I address you on behalf of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and the Russian Orthodox C...
Consecration to the Theotokos
For centuries people have been placing themselves under the protection of the Holy Theotokos. This can be done for many reasons, in times of need or great dist...
Sermon ~ Standing at the Cross Roads
The Gospel of Luke 8:5-15 The Lord said this parable: “A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell along the path, and was trodden under ...
The Heart of the Family Church…
Every Sunday, feastday and other holy day, when we go into our parish temple, we see the heart of the parish which is the sanctuary, where the Holy Table is. Wh...