August 21, 2026, repent before death closes the door of your life and opens the door of judgment. Repent before death, and, because you do not know the hour of death, repent today, even now, and cease to repeat your sin. – St. Nikolai Velimirovic   

  August 7, 2026, do not devour the poor. When the weak are despised by the elite, the rich, the educated, and groan for justice, stand with them. Take your complaint to God. That’s a continuous theme in Sacred Scriptures. The Bible speaks for the powerless, because few do. The poor are too beaten down, often[…]

  Take care what you might unleash… August 20, 2026, I was once told that there was a traditional Jewish practice that forbade the reading of Ezekiel prior to age 40. I think of that as optimistic. I also think that the modern mind is unable to fathom the notion that reading is anything other[…]

  August 5, 2026, rise up, my beloved brothers and sisters. Rise up from the dust. Let us not forget that Christ Himself has personally chosen us to work for Him in His vineyard: The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard (Matthew[…]

Published in the Nov–Dec 2025 issue, this article by Dn. Paul Najeeb Haddad invites clergy and faithful to recover the apostolic voice heard in the Divine Liturgy. August 11, 2025, each divine liturgy, after the Trisagion hymn subsides and the deacon intones, “Let us attend,” the Church places in our hearing the living voice of[…]