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[English Edition / Theology]

What is the Church?

W. J. Lillie

What is the Church? What does the Church express? How is the unity of the Church expressed? What is the content of the unity and universality of the Church? What does the expression ‘the visible unity of the Church’ mean in the context of the Ecumenical Movement and what does this involve?

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Why Politicians Fail So Often

The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke 6:31-36

Fr. James Guirguis

The teachings of Jesus Christ are often radically different than those of our culture. It seems that if we only obeyed the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ we could probably fire most of our politicians.

[English Edition / Theology]

On Psalm 50

Fr. John Whiteford

Is Psalm 50 a Messianic psalm? Why does the psalm culminate in animal sacrifice? How should we incorporate this psalm in our daily prayers? Fr. John Whiteford talks about one of the most often-read psalms.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

God Gives Prayer to Him Who Prays: Selected Sayings of St. Hilarion of Optina

St. Hilarion of Optina

In the pure writings of the Holy Fathers, we see that he who desires to cleanse his heart of the passions must call on the Lord for help—this is so. We cannot say the Jesus Prayer without our thoughts being plundered. With beginners, God does not demand undistracted prayer: it is acquired with much time and labor. As the writings of the Holy Fathers say: "God gives prayer to him who prays,” thus we must nevertheless continue to pray, orally, and with the mind.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

On the most dangerous idols worshiped by modern man

Natalia Goroshkova, Archimandrite Markell (Pavuk)

A life not according to the Commandments is comparable to a weapon without a safety, says Archimandrite Markell (Pavuk), spiritual father of the Kiev Spiritual schools.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Our spiritual state determines our lives

Professor Alexei Osipov answers readers’ questions

Professor Alexei Osipov

Many people send letters to Pravoslavie.ru addressed to Professor Alexei Iliych Osipov. After choosing those more frequently asked, these question were posed to Prof. Osipov—on doubts about the faith, about how to discern God’s will, how to give alms, why the Orthodox are patient in deprivations, and whether there is justice on this earth.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Slow Work of Grace

Fr. Stephen Freeman

We live in a culture of fast food, and tend to want grace to operate on the same speed track. Some versions of Christianity make grace as “quick” as walking the aisle. This, of course, is misleading.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Patriarch Kirill: Salvation and happiness impossible without suffering and sorrows (+Video)

For the first time Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the Divine Liturgy accompanied by sign language translation. Throughout the service several specialists were present at the church who translated everything into sign language.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Cross shows us the life of God

A homily on the Sunday before the Elevation of the Cross

Archimandrite Sergius (Bowyer)

What the Cross offers us is an image and icon of what God’s life is like, what His love is like, and ultimately what He calls us to. This life of God for man is a cross, which ultimately leads us to our resurrection—not only personally, but corporately on the last day.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Impulsivity and Self-control: The Problem of Being of Two Minds

Hieromonk Alexis (Trader)

Recently, advances in social cognition research have suggested another way to understand human behavior, which is in sync with what the Church fathers have been teaching for over a millennium. We are double-minded, literally.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Sunday Before the Exaltation of the Cross

Homily on John 3:16

Fr. Robert Miclean

We hear in today’s Gospel for the Sunday before the Exaltation of the Cross—the major feast coming this Tuedsay—the Good News that God loves us to such a tremendous extent that He sent Himself, His Logos, His Son, into the world to enter into human nature to redeem it, make it new again, fit for life with Him who is Life. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

To Have More—Pleonexia

Fr. Stephen Freeman

Within the list of sins that come up in the Scriptures, “drunkenness” has its honorable mentions. However, there is a deeper addiction, far more pervasive, that plays a greater role, both in Scripture and in our own lives: greed.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Family Hierarchy

Grammar of Family Life, Part 6

Archpriest Pavel Gumerov

Archpriest Paul Gumerov speaks about how family roles should be distributed, who should be the head, what are the responsibilities of husbands and wives, what a wife should do if her husband doesn’t want to take responsibility for the welfare of his family, and how husbands can become true husbands.

[English Edition / Theology]

Preconditions for Orthodox Participation in the Holy Mysteries

Elder Joseph of Xeropotamou

As all of us should know, and hopefully do know, that just because we are formally Orthodox does not mean we have the right to participate in the Sacraments, or Mysteries, of the Church, but rather, there are preconditions to participation—that is, we are called to prepare ourselves to receive grace and meet the Lord through these Mysteries.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

Open Unto Us the Doors of Mercy

A Homily on the Nativity of the Theotokos

Archimandrite Cleopa (Ilie)

In order to praise the Child and Virgin Mary, we must have good-natured hearts, as have infants, and a pure life untainted by carnal sins. To praise Her Who was to become the Mother of the Son of God we must have the heart of a mother, the tenderness and patience of a mother, and the love and compassion of a mother for all. Otherwise our prayers and our gifts, if they come from a heart full of sins, hatred and evil, will not be received by the Most Holy Virgin Mary.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Denial as a Path to Life

Fr. James Guirguis

We each have struggles and difficulties and crosses in our lives, some of them are quite painful. What is the thought process that we go through when we encounter difficulties?

[English Edition / Theology]

The Way of All Flesh—What happens to the soul after death

Part 1

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Why is earthly life is so valuable to us? What does a soul experience as it separates from the body? What are the aerial tollhouses? What is life, and what is death in the Orthodox understanding? These are the topics of a series of talks with Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev, which we will be translating for our English language readers.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The Lord of the Vineyard

Commentary on the Gospel Reading for the Thirteenth Sunday of Pentecost

Archpriest Alexander Shargunov

It is clearly seen in the parable that Christ knows what awaits Him ahead and what path His Church must walk. He consciously ascends to His death, to give Himself for the salvation of all, to become the cornerstone upon which life is built and without which all of mankind would bear witness to the destruction of all. Rejection and death await the Lord and His Church, but it is all in order to bring mercy, judgment, and victory for those who love Him.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

On Suicide

Nun Barbara (Khopovo)

Father John of Kronstadt once said: "If anyone should see a departed person in a dream or while awake (the latter case is extremely rare), then he must read the Psalter or the Holy Gospel for the repose of this person for forty days. He must light at least the smallest wax candle for the repose of the soul of the departed and pray for him until the candle burns out. If a person is busy and cannot pray for long, then he may do so piecemeal, by day or by night."

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Sleeping, Resting, Rising and God

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Though it may be hard to do, work on rejoicing in the night, especially a sleepless night, as verse 63:6 says. It helps to remember the words of St. Paul: Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you (I Thessalonians 5:16-18). Always and in all circumstances includes the middle of the night when sleep frustratingly eludes you.

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