People have their differences. In our Church, we say that, if we keep the orthodox dogma, we can differ in any other thing. Is the fire, said to come out of Jesus’ grave on Great and Holy Saturday, really holy? This is a question raised by brethren among us. Is it a sin to raise ...

When Paul said: “be free from anxieties” (1 Corinthians 7:32), he wanted us to see that God is with us in all circumstances: in our sorrow and our joy, in our contentedness and our anger, in our pain and our health, in our peace and our anxiety… this is the experience of Pascha to those ...

In our Tradition, we celebrate the feast of the saint on the day of his repose or martyrdom. This is his day of birth in the Kingdom of God. We celebrate the feast of Saint George on his day (April 23rd) if we had already celebrated Pascha, and we move it till after that, if ...

He asked for an advice saying: I was accepted by an institution for a job I had chosen by aspiration, then by knowledge. However, its administration asks us, sometimes, to do what is against my conviction. What do you think?”. I told him: “do nothing other than what is acceptable to you”. A week later, ...

This is the Paschal greeting to you and to all those who, in these bitter days, have been broken by grief over a death or an illness or an abandonment or an unemployment or have been shaken by a trauma… Christ is risen, He is risen in all of you. Today, I wanted to call ...

The holy fathers told us that he who sees his sins is greater than he who sees the angels. Do you believe this statement? We are in a different world. It is all different: its fathers; its conviction; its vision; its parlance… Who is he who thinks that his confessing his sins is a great ...

Pick yourself a room for silence. Find it, for your own relief, so that you can take refuge in it whenever you want; in times of triviality as well as in times of bedazzlement; whether you were sad or joyful; in the time of peace as well as in the time of wrath; in comfort ...