From the life of St. Arsenius of Paros (commemorated Jan 31) A certain girl from Syros came to the Convent of the Transfiguration to...

Friends, these words come from the book The Enlargement of the Heart by Fr Zacharias of St John the Baptist Monastery in Essex,...

Friends, I have been reading and learning about one of the great saints of 20th c. Georgia, St Gabriel the Fool for Christ, a monk who...

Friends, I want to share with you some of my favorite “words” from St Nikolai Velmirovich, one of our great 20th c. saints, a Serbian...

[W]ith the Father’s words from above concerning Him who was baptized according to the flesh, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well...

2017 is here at last. In our increasingly media-drenched world, 2016 got a bad rap as the year that “killed” a number of celebrities...

A Nativity Homily of St Isaac the Syrian This night bestowed peace on the whole world; so, let no one threaten; This is the night of the...

The above is a translation of the kontakion of the Nativity/Christmas composed by St Romanos the Melodist in the late 5th or early 6th...

For the past couple of weeks we have been comparing the hymns before Christmas with another set of hymns which inspired them, those of...

Last week we noted that the hymnographers who composed some of the hymns of the forefeast of Nativity deliberately modeled them on the...