Our Christian forefathers have survived the Turks and the communists and everything else that stood against them not because they knew everything about God and their faith, but because they took the ...
Prayer can be extremely brief. If you are just starting out on your path of prayer, begin with very short prayers, such as can allow you to focus. God does not need words; He needs men’s hearts ...
The majority of people are not able to pray during the course of the day, for which reason one needs to find a time, even if a short one, when one can remember God.
Prayer is a dialogue. It includes not only our own turning towards God, but also the response of God Himself. As in every dialogue, in prayer it is important not only to speak out and express ...
It is often asked: why do we need to pray, to ask God for something, if God already knows what we need? This is how I would reply. We do not pray in order to beg for something from God. Yes, in some ...
I realized that my responsibility as a Christian wife and mother was to be an imitator of the Theotokos. Of course I would not be called upon to bear the God of all creation, but, I realized, I had ...
If I am not mistaken, a real temptation that exists once Great Lent is over is to return to “life as usual,” as if Great Lent is at best a pious interlude during which we act more “religiously” and ...
A Church that makes great saints out of former prostitutes, murderers, and adulterers is both realistic about the corruption of our lives and optimistic that there is hope for every one of us to set ...
As we move towards Pascha with rapid steps and we get ready to embark in the great spirituality of Holy Week, maybe is a good time now to stop for a minute and reflect on the transforming power that ...
On whatever step of our spiritual development we are, the first thing which is required of us is that we should be true to ourselves: not to try to be anyone except the person we are; not to try to ...
