“All things work together for good for those who love God” (Romans 8: 28) 7/30/25, Your Graces the Bishops; reverend members of the clergy; esteemed members of the Board of Trustees; heads of departments; members of The Order of St. Ignatius of Antioch; ladies of the Antiochian Women; our dear young adults; members of[…]
Author: Chris Purdef
God is Not in Books: Fr. Roman Braga
July 16th, 2025 Fr. Roman Braga, a survivor of torture in Communist prisons, shows us how the experience of the prisoners helped them to find God inside themselves. Fr. Roman: “God is not in books. I learned this lesson in prison. God bless the communists because they put the priests in prison. The priest needs[…]
Our Stance Before God: Elder Symeon Kragiopoulos
July 29, 2025, the question is what stance the soul takes, man’s deeper being, before God, before God’s love, God’s energies, and before any sort of reality. The more you say the prayer “Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me”, the more you want to say it. In the same way, the more we[…]
About the Duties of Spiritual Shepherds
“Feed the flock of God, which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint but willingly in God; not for filthy lucre but of a ready mind good heart; neither as being lords over God’s heritage but being examples to the flock” (1 Peter 5: 2-3) Here are the precepts for[…]
Dormition of the Righteous Anna, the Mother of the Most Holy Theotokos
July 25, 2025, Saint Anna was the daughter of the priest Matthan and his wife Mary. She was of the tribe of Levi and the lineage of Aaron. According to Tradition, she died peacefully in Jerusalem at age 79, before the Annunciation to the Most Holy Theotokos. During the reign of St Justinian, the[…]
