Orthodox Life Tips: Pride Comes from the Devil
When we encounter a particularly prideful person, we think, “What an ego!” St. Antony the Great, however, says the problem is much worse: “Having fallen from his heavenly rank through pride, the devil...
View Articlereal life minute: Faith in the Modern World
Metropolitan Augoustinos of Florina tells us about signs of faith in a faithless world: Amid all the coldness that transforms people’s hearts into snowballs, there are still sparks—burning coals and...
View ArticleOrthodox Life Tips: The Priestly Perspective
Many priests are godly, humble men who love God and His people. There are other priests, however, who are not so godly, and definitely not so humble. This is why St. Theognostos the Presbyter tells all...
View Articlereal life minute: What Should I Wear?
People have always debated about what constitutes “appropriate dress,” and seldom have those debates been more fierce than they are right now, where it seems that the challenge is to create clothes...
View ArticleOrthodox Life Tips: Psalms About You
St. Athanasios the Great explains that we can see ourselves in some of the Psalms: Those who listen (to other books) consider themselves to be other than those about whom the passage speaks, so that...
View Articlereal life minute: How to See God
If we need to go somewhere we’ve never been, we need a guide—a map or another person to show us where to go. St. Gregory of Nyssa tells us we will only be able to see God if we follow a guide: Seeing...
View ArticleOrthodox Life Tips: Nature Sings God’s Praises
Have you ever looked at a beautiful photograph of a scenic spot—or even better, been in such a place yourself—and felt impelled to praise God? St. Nektarios of Aegina explains what is happening in such...
View Articlereal life minute: Mourning Over Sins
I remember when I first started looking into Orthodoxy, I thought the emphasis on weeping over sins to be a bit morbid. But St. Symeon the New Theologian tells us the blessing that comes from this...
View ArticleOrthodox Life Tips: Read the Holy Fathers
St. Paisius Velichkovsky explains why we should read the Holy Fathers when he says, Do not say…that one or two books is sufficient for instructing the soul. After all, even the bee collects honey not...
View Articlereal life minute: Why Read and Pray?
Have you ever looked at the number of prayers and Bible passages Orthodox Christians go through each day and wondered why we need to spend so much time doing all this? St. John Cassian answers, We...
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