In this stream, Fr. Peter Heers joins David Harry to discuss some difficult questions and topics concerning the state of Orthodoxy and the chaos we are currently seeing in the world.
...Where is Christ? Here and everywhere! Above all, Christ, the second person of the Holy Trinity, is seated within the Holy of Holies, at the right hand of the heavenly Father. So don’t think that when we go to church, we are simply entering and exiting an ordinary building. Instead, we go up to, and make our entrance into, the Holy of Holies, into the heavens themselves. As we open the...
Recently, I listened to your podcast “The Love of Truth as the Key to Salvation.” The question that came to me is:
how do I train myself to love Christ with all my heart, soul, and mind?”
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A. By crucifying your mind, heart and soul.
- The old man must die. The passions, these must be uprooted. (The...
Excerpts from the second half of the video:
Very difficult moments for humanity are coming. It seems that these difficult moments are just now starting. When this virus will end in May, other grievances will come; far greater than this one...
Therefore, we will need even more patience and even more faith. Now we are in the stage of practice, and of exams. These exams will...
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“You will see, my son, that when you pass your 50th year [the Metropolitan is now 58 years old] that God has a plan to change the ‘crew’ of the ship.”
“I said to him, what do you mean, Geronda, the “crew of the ship”?. . .”
“The ship of Christ is the One, Holy, Catholic and...
President Trump, after recovering from COVID, was due to leave Walter Reed hospital when he Tweeted this message, “Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life.”
As an obese 74 year-old with a famously poor diet and a high-stress job, Trump has very publicly beaten the virus and in a short period of time. President Trump is also the...
1. Presbyter Fr. P.L., known to the editorial team of our blog, recounts:
"My father-in-the-flesh, Presbyter E.L. had just Celebrated the Divine Liturgy in his parish in a village in Halkidiki (Northern Greece). As he finished the katalysis (consumption of the Holy Blood and Body that remained in the Holy Chalice), he wanted to add a little water, as is often the case,...
The second part of our four-part discussion (2/4) with Archimandrite Savas Agioreitis, given on May 8th, on the need to find, have and come under the direction of a spiritual father.
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00:37 - Question 1: The Responsibilities of the Faithful
02:39 - Criterion given by St. Symeon the New Theologian - The Apostolic Life
05:03 - The criterion is not that the...
The great feast has arrived, a feast of great joy for Christians: The Holy Spirit has descended upon the apostles, and not only upon the apostles—the Holy Spirit has come to the world to fulfill the promise made to us by our Lord Jesus Christ when He said, “I will not leave you orphans, I will send the Holy Spirit, the...
April 4, 2020
(Translated by: Maher Salloum)
Christ is risen, truly He is risen!
Christ is risen despite all of Satan’s attempts to prevent His Resurrection. Neither pandemics nor all of the evils of this world are able to prevent Christ’s Resurrection. Christ is risen and creation still trembles until this day as it beholds the light of the Resurrection, just as it did 2000...
May 31, 2020 – Sunday of the Holy Fathers
To our beloved Hierarchs and Clergy of the Orthodox Churches of America and everywhere:
In May of 1848, The Eastern Patriarchs wrote a profound encyclical to the Pope in response to his flawed papal primacy claims. Toward the end of this most...
Over one thousand years later, the ugly wolf of iconoclasm is again growling at the gates of the Orthodox Church. The princes of this world, in fear of the loss of their temporary power and misguided by perverse and strange theologies have influenced the shepherds of the flock of Christ to reject the borders of tradition – just as Leo the Isaurian and Constantine the Dung-named pushed...
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