These words are a call to mobilize all of our spiritual, emotional and physical resources. It is for every Orthodox Christian a clarion call from Christ to pick up our cross and die with Him
Our bishops and clergy of every rank might find it salutary to ask themselves, ‘Whose feet have I washed lately?’ -- literally or figuratively -- before the laity hold them to account
I remember hearing – really hearing for the first time the phrase in the Communion Service, “in the night in which He was betrayed…” It stayed with me for quite some time and left an impression that ...
On the Thursday before Easter, called Holy or Maundy Thursday, four events are remembered: the Last Supper, the Foot-Washing of the Apostles by Jesus, the prayer of Christ in Gethsemane, and the ...
We are thus reminded that being “insiders” and members of Christ's Church in no way guarantees our salvation.
We are the Virgins who are not ready for the bridegroom. We are Judas who so often are willing to sell Christ for the sake of our worldly gain, we are the disciples who deny our Lord, and we are the ...
Be prepared, always, because Christ can return at any time, and we do not know how long any of us have left for repentance.
Monday, April 14, is the beginning of Holy Week. On these days we remember the last days of the earthly life of our Lord Jesus Christ.
A prototype of Christ – betrayed, sold, and saving others, including those who had sold him – he was thrown into a dry well, then went down to Egypt to the pagans, and after his death he was returned ...
