8/12/25, Sister Anastasia of St. Macarius the Great of Egypt Orthodox Monastery in Arizona speaks about her transition from feminism to that of a Monastic in the Orthodox Church; the reasons why so many young women find harbor in this worldly religion, and how to truly find healing by harkening back to the Order[…]
Author: Chris Purdef
Fr Zacharias Zacharou: The Gift of Speaking in Tongues – How the Holy Spirit initiated the Church into the Spirituality of the Heart
Fr Zacharias Zacharou in his book The Hidden Man of the Heart, explains the gift of speaking in tongues and why it was given to the Church on the day of Pentecost. “We know that the gift of speaking in tongues (glossolalia) was given to the nascent Church for a specific purpose. The old[…]
His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon to Concelebrate with His Beatitude Archbishop Stefan of Macedonian Orthodox Church
August 9, 2025, the first concelebration of the heads of the MOC-OA and the Orthodox Church of America, Archbishop Stephen and Metropolitan Tikhon, is scheduled for Tuesday, September 2 in Washington. The news was announced this morning by the Orthodox Church of America. Other bishops from both churches are expected to serve at the[…]
Address of His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon at the Twenty-First All American Council
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. On September 16, 1979 a crew of eight men set sail on a three-month expedition which would take them from Saint Malo, a commune in Brittany, on the west coast of France, to the island of South Georgia,[…]
Holy Martyr Dometios of Persia and his Two Disciples
On August 20 (August 7), on the second day of the Transfiguration, the Churches following the Julian calendar celebrate the memory of the martyr Dometius of Persia. The saint was a physician and an ascetic. Together with two disciples, he suffered for faith in Christ during the reign of Emperor Julian the Apostate (331-363).[…]
