Ten picks from the archives. 2022. I now have over 200 articles on my blog. In this post, I have gathered 10 articles from the now 200 I have posted. This is not a “top ten” list, these articles highlight and touch on issues that I believe to be of continued importance and value (although …
Category: Living the Faith
Prophetic Warnings – That We Would be Saved
“In the twentieth century it is almost a joke in the Western world to use words like 'good' and 'evil.' They have become old-fashioned concepts, yet they are very real and genuine. These are concepts from a sphere which is above us. And instead of getting involved in base, petty, shortsighted political calculations and games …
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The Suicide of Western Society and the Only Hope for its Resurrection
Below the reader will find an excerpt from the introduction by Fr. Seraphim (Rose) of blessed memory to The Vita Patrum, the Life of the Fathers, by St. Gregory of Tours. Although sadly, the work is currently out of print, it is nonetheless of monumental value to Christians in the West (I would encourage St. Herman Press …
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A Heavenly Outline
Below the reader will find my continued work in translating the sermons of New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Zvezdinski) on the Divine Liturgy. May these sermons deepen in us a love and awe for the holy and divinely revealed worship of the Church. The preceding sermons may be found here. 5th Sermon Today I will only speak …
The Body as a Temple of the Holy Spirit
“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit?” (1 Cor. 6:19) At current, there is a war against humanity. This war started in the garden of Eden. The devil seeks to pervert, twist, and even destroy the image of man. He does so because man is created in the …
Fear Not
Below the reader will find my translation of a sermon given by Archbishop Longin of Bukovina (Ukraine). He is well known for his extensive work with orphans. The sermon was delivered on the 28th of November, 2021. It was given in, I believe Romanian. The area of Bukovina in Ukraine has many people of Romanian …
The Seal of the Lord
“I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun having the seal of the living God; and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to injure the earth and sea, saying, 'Do not begin to injure the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, until …
The Escape from Materialism
The crisis of our day is not essentially a political one, nor is it fundamentally about a virus and its effects on the human person and surrounding society, nor the environment, or whatever else we could add to the current list. These events, or crises within the crisis, are but the outward and material manifestations …
Without Christ, Everything is in Vain
“If we burnish the wires, the sinful man can become a good conductor, and then the Grace of God will be transmitted to provide the divine light of Grace. Otherwise, the system is short-circuited and Grace cannot enter. The basic thing is for man to take care not to lose the Grace of God, so …
This World is Not Our Home
“Many lose their true home because they have greater love for the road that leads them there. Let us not love the road rather than our home, in case we should lose our eternal home … Let us keep to this principle, therefore, that we should live as travelers and pilgrims on the road … …
The Inkless Pen 