A worrying phenomenon of our day, a New Age befuddlement passing as spiritual practice, is the fact that in recent years there has been a heightened interest in and concern with angels in a host of New Age periodicals, secular print materials, boo...

The healing of the blind man in Jericho is the last of the miracles recorded by Saint Luke before Christ’s entry into Jerusalem and his impending Passion. It may be no coincidence that, on Great Friday, the hymnographer has Christ express the bitt...

Truth is the characteristic of a virtuous life. It’s everyone’s duty to tell the truth and we owe it to ourselves and to those around us. If you tell the truth, you honor first yourself and then those who listen to you. The truth adorns twofold t...

Christ is “the true Light” (see John 1:9).   Those who believe in Him and are members of His One Holy Church, receive His light.   This is how Christians themselves become light, by reflecting the light of Christ that is within.   They cannot keep...

Earn your bread in any way, provided you work for it. Of the children of Adam and Eve, one was a farmer, the other a shepherd. All jobs are good, provided we’re close to God. Saint Paul wouldn’t take bread from anyone for free, but worked with hi...

Every member of the Church is not merely invited in, but is also an apostle of the Gospel of Christ.

Metropolitan Pavlos of Aleppo

In this Apostolic reading from St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians, we see an inspiring description of the suit of armor a Christian needs for warfare. Of course, the kind of example that St. Paul is presenting is a spiritual one, aimed at effectiv...

Sin tied the wings of Adam and his descendants and so they were all separated from God. The very clay from which they were made blinded them. Christ, the first Adam, and first human being, the first-born of all creation, was the first to ascend i...

There’s no doubt that, after God, humans are the most mysterious and enigmatic beings. From the beginning of our history, it can be seen that within us co-exist two opposing forces which attempt to ga...

This brief study aims at a short review and analysis of today’s culture, the thoughts and ambitions of people nowadays, especially those in Europe, who have a large impact on others around the world. We’ve used the word ‘Europe’ but we would not w...