We Are Called To Collaborate With God If we are to be healthy spiritually, we must cooperate with God’s divine grace. The nous, as the center of our being, refers to the noetic energy that functions in the heart of every spiritually healthy person. Only the Holy Spirit can bring
Category: The Morning Offering
The Church Must Proclaim the Good News in all Humility and Love If she is true to herself, the Church acts with an authority that is grounded in love. She holds within her realm the authority to make her people the children of God. She has the authority to forgive,
This is a must watch sermon addressing the war in Ukraine, by a Roman Catholic priest. Abbot Tryphon https://youtu.be/5UICnfYZF9k
The True Self Versus The False Self Reformed theology focuses on forensic justification, whereas the mystical theology of the Orthodox Church focuses on restoration to God through healing of the darkened soul alienated from Him. These are two very different models, but not really equal, because one can have faith
What To Do When We’re Broken It is only human to become despondent when we have failed in keeping to our moral, ethical and spiritual standards, succumbing, instead, to temptation. Our Orthodox Faith teaches that we must be compassionate towards others, loving, quick to forgive, exemplar in our Christian living,
Our Prayer Life Should Not Be Like A Child’s Visit To Santa Back in the days when I was teaching, I knew my students had a prayer life, for I could see their collective lips moving when I was handing out an exam. My youngest former students are now in
Due to the expectation of another record breaking heat wave coming this summer, and the extreme danger of possible forest fires, we have decided to hire a company that would bring 120 goats to clear the underbrush around the monastery. The cost of this endeavor would be $7,140.00. I am
The Wellspring of Life It is unfathomable for me to think what my life might have been like had I never become Orthodox, never entered the monastic life. The joy I feel at having tasted from the ocean of grace that is Orthodoxy! She has filled me, completed me, made
Gerontissa Markella I just arrived at Theotokos of the Life Giving Spring Women’s Monastery in Dunlap, CA, to spend time with my beloved sister, Gerontissa Markella. A much needed reprieve from the stress I’ve been suffering of late. Thanks to my sister’s holy prayers, my heart is doing much better.