The exorcism of exorcise can help reset a polluted soul. https://www.brighteon.com/3604bea9-16bc-4ab3-92cc-c9ed9779e562
Icons everywhere for a God Who is everywhere! https://www.brighteon.com/b7c76ab9-4fac-4b6e-8581-4316e80552a2
The Ability to Express One’s Emotions, and be Empathetic to the Needs of Others When we are in our head, we are more judgmental, yet when we are in our heart, we become non-judgmental. Being critical of others is not an Orthodox trait, for being critical, whether of other people,
Don’t be just another brick in the wall. https://www.brighteon.com/448588f1-953c-40d7-b0c1-6291180ca202
On Being Ambassadors for the Orthodox Faith It was relatively late in my life when I embraced Orthodoxy. Already forty-one, I’d found myself wandering in a spiritual wasteland, knowing I was drying up, spiritually, and hoping there was something out there that would fill the void. Orthodoxy had not been
Why do we call priests “Father” if Jesus Christ says to call no man “Father?” https://www.brighteon.com/f6c80f81-840c-44bc-9d3e-67c411a5cf0b
We Must Never Converse With Demons In 1986 I spent fourteen days in a retreat at Saint Tikhon’s Monastery in South Canaan, Pennsylvania. Staying in the monastic quarters, I had two weeks of wonderful fellowship with fellow monastics, worshiping in their temple, eating with them in trapeza, walking the trails
“Shall we say: ‘Since it is lawful for an archbishop together with his associates to do as he pleases, let him be for the duration of his archbishopric a new Evangelist, another Apostle, a different Law-giver?’ Certainly not. For we have an injunction from the Apostle himself: If anyone preaches
None Can Be Saved Without Compassion For Others We must not be so self-consumed as to have no compassion for others. Saint Basil tells us that a man who has two coats or two pair of shoes, when his neighbor has none, is a thief. In the Holy Scriptures we
“As a fish cannot swim without water, and as a bird cannot fly without air, so a Christian cannot advance a single step without Christ.” – Saint Gregory the Theologian https://www.brighteon.com/18fb8f95-3528-4527-af63-ae9a364b6bba