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Category: The Morning Offering
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
“Be angry, and do not sin: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil. Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who
The Veneration of the Holy Virgin Mary “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women (Luke 1:28).” This salutation addressed to the Virgin Mary by the Archangel Gabriel, forms a part of the hymn of the Church most frequently sung in her honor. Elizabeth,
The mystery of lawlessness is revealed.