Monk Moisis the Hagiorite In one of its hymns, our Church calls the unbelief of Thomas “good”. Understandably one would...

 "Outside of Constantinople, towards the district of the Seven Towers, there was in ancient times a very large and most bea...

Explaining the Mystery of the Sabbath and of the Lord’s Day (And Referring to the Gospel of New Sunday) By Saint Gregory Palamas ...

Saint Gregory the Dialogist You have heard that the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples in tongues of fire. But why did the Ho...

  Fourth Sunday of Pascha Healing of the Paralytic John 5:1-15 From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. John by Blessed The...

Forty days after Christ’s resurrection, He was taken up into the Heavens before the disciples, and so forty days after Easter, is...

Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe Me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship ...

  St. Holy Myrrhbearing Women. Painting by Sergei Bondarchuk By Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann Those who in time of "s...

 By St. Ignatius Brianchaninov  The Gospels have told us today [1] about the exploits of the holy women who followed the God-Ma...

by the Blessed Bishop Nikolai (Velimirovich) (†1956)     When swallows run short of food and the cold weather is coming, they...

By St. Tikhon of Zadonsk   Whatever physical darkness is for the eyes, so is sin for the human soul. The spiritual darkness so da...

    Today, Christ desires to proclaim the struggles of the Samaritan woman, and we must, with this poor word, sail the sea of her fea...

   Third Sunday of Pascha The Myrrh-bearing Women   Mark 15:43-16:6 From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Mark by B...

“But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We h...