“My spiritual efforts don’t do anything, they merely bring me to the place where I know I can’t do anything, to the place where I am utterly naked before God!” -Fr. Silviu Bunta October 10, 2026, sometimes I run across a quote that strikes my heart so deeply that it takes my breath. The[…]
Author: Chris Purdef

Homily on the Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God by St. Dimitry of Rostov
October 1, 2026, during the last, difficult times, when with the increase of our sins our perils have also increased, in fulfillment of the words of the holy apostle Paul: In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in[…]

Share the Faith Supported Mission Priest Featured on Orthodox Christianity: Mass Baptism at Carpatho-Russian church in North Carolina
Supported Mission Priest, Fr. Photios Parks reached out to Share the Faith Ministries – Orthodox Christian Mission to America to express his gratitude and joy for the support, and to convey that in the past two months, his mission, St. Anthony the Great in Hendersonville, NC has gained 21 Newly Illumined into the Holy[…]
Our Home is in Heaven – The Fiery Missionary Priest and Martyr Daniel Sysoev (+2009)
September 25, 2026, a martyric death comes not only at the moment of death but is born from the whole will of man.” This saying, sometimes attributed to St. John Chrysostom, reveals a profound truth that relates to the life of the contemporary Russian priest and martyr, Fr. Daniel Sysoev. Fr. Daniel was not[…]

Sister Anastasia: The Chains of Emotional Pain
October 5, 2026, the chains of emotional pain are some of the heaviest chains that we will have to break free from in our journey of sanctification. Emotional pain is not something to be dismissed as a minor issue in the grand spiritual scheme of things. The emotions are extremely powerful. They have the[…]