Category: The Morning Offering

“Although the Good God gives us abundant blessings, acts always for our own good and has made everything to be of service to us and to be sacrificed for us, from plants to animals and birds, whether big or small, and even though God Himself sacrificed His life to redeem

Put Aside All Despondency and Get Up Again It is often the case that we fail to keep God’s commandments and find ourselves despondent, unable, as it seems, to make progress in the battle over our sins. When the same sins constantly plague us, despondency is our enemy. Despondency is

God created us male and female. We created a crisis. How can we find peace, healing, and wholeness when the world has gone mad?

Darkness Does Not Exist in Its Own Right Our Orthodox Christian theology views evil not as a primeval essence that is co-eternal and equal to God, but rather a falling away from good. Evil does not exist in and of itself, and was not created by God. Our Orthodox Church

Real fathers provide more than a paycheck.

Laboring to Receive the Gift of Compunction If we are to receive the gift of compunction, we must be committed to working for it, even laboring day and night for it, so that the spirit of compunction takes possession of our whole being. This can only be accomplished if we

Real men take after the God Man. The time has come to reclaim your birthright!

And the Way of Humility Saint Sophrony of Essex, England, himself the spiritual son and biographer of Saint Silouan of the Holy Mountain, wrote that the empirical cosmic being is like a pyramid: at the top sit the powerful of the earth, who exercise dominion over others, and at the

Fasting is hard, but the benefits are easy to see.

Love Involves Suffering If we are indeed to love one another we must be willing to suffer with others. The Lord tells us that we must “Bear one another’s burdens, and so be filled with the law of Christ” (Gal. 6:2). When we learn to love others our compassion is