

Sentenced to Immortality (Part II)
A Paschal Homily by St Justin (Popovic) Faith is our victory, by which we conquer death; faith in the Risen Lord Jesus. Death, where is...


Sentenced to Immortality (Part I)
A Paschal Homily by St Justin (Popovic) Man sentenced God to death; by His Resurrection, He sentenced man to immortality. In return for a...


Love to the End
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having...


St Mary of Egypt: Charismatic Repentance
This Sunday, the fifth Sunday of the Great Fast, is the Sunday of St Mary of Egypt. During the service of the Great Canon in the fifth...


Kill the Flesh to Acquire a Body
At the end of his long chapter on chastity (Step 15) in The Ladder of Divine Ascent, after spending pages discussing the never-ending...


The Cross ~ The Tree of Life
This Sunday, the third of Great Lent, is the Sunday of the Cross. On Saturday evening the Cross, decorated with flowers, is brought from...


What Have You Made?
The Bible opens with those well-known words, “In the beginning God made….” Five more times in the first 25 verses it repeats “And God...


Fasting and Love
Invariably in Great Lent I come across internet memes quoting the Fathers of the Church with phrases such as “Love is greater than...


Expulsion of Adam from Paradise
I once heard a fascinating interview on NPR with writer Marie Mutsuki Mockett about her journey to Japan to grieve the death of her...


Sunday of the Last Judgment
It is, I believe, most fitting that the Church, in preparing us for Great Lent, follows the Sunday of the Prodigal Son immediately with...