The Need to Reunite a Society Divided by Age There are two major populations within our society that are seeing a statistical rise in the number of suicides. At a time when a growing body of research shows that people with the most social power pay scant attention to those
Category: The Morning Offering
“I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you
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
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