The Three Disciplines: Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving Jesus Christ called for a thorough conversion of our heart and mind, and a complete turning away from the old man (our fallen nature). The main act that begins this conversion is metanoia, which means thorough change of mind. This happens when we
Category: The Morning Offering
You have a mission from God.
Don’t Shelve a Part of You When we enter into communion with one another in the life of the Church, we come broken, and far from the image and likeness that God intended when He created us. We are in need of the healing that comes from a life in
What’s it good for, anyway?
Stability of Place and Personal Growth An Elder said: “Just as a tree cannot bear fruit if it is often transplanted, so neither can a monk bear fruit if he frequently changes his abode.” In an age when people change addresses as often as those in past generations changed their
How and why to build your spiritual oasis in a world gone mad.
“Abbot Tryphon joins us to discuss the life and future Sainthood of his spiritual father, Elder Dmitriy (Egoroff) of Santa Rosa. Almost nothing currently exists online about this American Saint…” Listen to my interview by Conrad Franz and Dmitriy Kalyagin here: https://open.substack.com/pub/worldwarnow/p/aether-hour-ep-18-elder-dmitriy-of?r=1nlo18&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
A Word from the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States On September 14th, Foreign Affairs, the influential magazine of the Council on Foreign Relations, published an article entitled, “Putin’s Useful Priests.” The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America hereby expresses its objection
“As soon as a desire or a worldly thought enters our mind, God immediately sends a warning. Instead of coming to our senses and blocking such thoughts and desires, we nurture them and long for them, and afterwards we wonder why bad things happen to us. These signs of warning
Children Learn Love of God by the Example of Their Parents Every Orthodox parent wants their children to grow up attending Sunday Liturgies and staying active in the life of the Church throughout their lives. Yet many parents don’t demonstrate the importance of having a personal relationship with God in