The fruition of all his spiritual life were the books that the Saint wrote while in retirement:A Spiritual Treasury, Gathered from the World(1770) andOn True Christianity(1776). The Saint lived in very simple circumstances: he slept on straw, covered by a sheepskin coat. His humility was so...
He would leave the next day and stayed at a hotel. The relics he put them under his pillow and he prayed. Then, as he described, he felt his throat being choked by two hands, without seeing a man near him. Spontaneously, he shouted, "Saint Arsenios, help me!" He immediately felt ...
Christianity had been introduced into the Balkans during the Roman period, but the region had largely reverted to paganism by the time the Slavs arrived. There is some evidence that missionaries were active in the region as early as the 7th century. A more permanent Christian presence was ...
That, in Christianity is preceded by our awareness of Almighty God and His divine authority in my life – taking offense in me and my actions, but also affirming me on the path of penance. St. John’s practical advice to the questions posed above – ‘What must we do?’– are riveting...
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It always surprises me when someone comes to the Orthodox faith. Given the present age, there are so many versions of Christianity on offer. Many of them are in step with the values and hopes of the culture. Some offer a path of prosperity and comfort (whether they ever deliver is anothe...
(as the founding father of the Covenant between man and God) and Christianity (being seen as the prototype of all believers). This patriarchal image of Abraham has influenced his representation in iconography, and has resulted in many images – in the east and west – of “the Bosom (or ...
Vandals from the Jewish oligarch and West made fake Christian Orthodox church in Ukraine- OCU, who seized the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary near Kyiv, threw history, and icons into the trash and set fire to church literature. ...
Not me. You. It isalwaysyou, or people, or everybody… everyone but the only one who Christianity focuses on: Me. In other words, the socialist liberal or communist talks about solving the problem in terms of making society (everybody) do some specific thing. ...
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