“Wondrous is the time of tribulation if your heart is burning for the word of Christ,” Elder Arsenie (Papacioc). Ultimate and essential freedom is not primarily an external reality. True freedom is found within the human person. In its fundamental existence it is not a parcel that is measured out by worldly authorities, for its …
Continue reading The Revolution Begins Within: The Burning Bush of the Heart
The Twentieth Century was the bloodiest century known to mankind. The Twenty-First Century seems to have learned nothing from the previous, or maybe, rather, it is purposefully applying the instructions of the last century. More Christians were martyred in the Twentieth Century than any previous one. More Christians were martyred during the Twentieth Century than …
Below the reader will find a sobering and timely message from Archbishop Averky of blessed memory. He delivered these words in the midst of the 20th century when Communism held full sway in the then Soviet Union and he himself lived in the United States. Yet, in a manner similar to Solzhenitsyn, he understands that …
Greetings in Jesus Christ, dear readers! Two of my recent posts, The Gates of Hell Shall not Prevail, and, Worldly Progress or the Cross, were taken from a collection of writings by Archbp. Averky of blessed memory entitled, "True Orthodoxy and the Modern World." I received some comments from some readers asking if it would …
Continue reading Link to the full work of Archbp. Averky, “True Orthodoxy and the Modern World.”
“The progress of technology had led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power” Aldous Huxley. “Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. For it will come as a snare on …
Continue reading Sinister Psychosis and the Remembrance of God
“A man who is blind in relation to one thing (to God) is totally blind in relation to all things; and a man who sees in the one (in God), has vision of all things,” St Symeon the New Theologian.1 Events in the world seem to be transpiring at breakneck speed. This is intentional. Keeping …
Continue reading The Disease of Secular-Humanism and the Cure
“My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways” (Prov. 23:25/26)1 The secular world seeks to dull and desensitize the heart. It fears living hearts, full of grace and love for Christ Jesus. It does not fear the pseudo-jesus of modernity's spineless ecumenism. In fact, such a pseudo-jesus is actively promoted. …
Continue reading The Goals of Secular Re-education and the Heart of Man
“I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told: 'Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample over the holy …
Continue reading Courts of Apostasy and the Temple of the Faithful
“Thou shalt love the Lord your God with all thy heart, and with all they soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets” (Matt. 22:37-40). The …
Once again Mr. Jim Jatras, who I've recommended in the past, has written a very perceptive article which deals with the "Western Campaign against Orthodoxy." I highly recommend taking the time to read it. The "enlightened" Western Powers will not tolerate anything that does not bow before their totalitarian doctrines. One is not free to …
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