Nativity 2025 My esteemed brothers, the right reverend bishops of the Archdiocese, My beloved sons, the priests and deacons of the Archdiocese, My children in Christ, the dearly loved in the Lord, the sons and daughters of the Archdiocese, In these blessed days, the Holy Church reminds us of the great event accomplished by[…]
By Priest David Proskuryakov December 16, 2025, but what happens when weariness dims even the joy of Pascha? When discouragement clouds the heart, the Lord sometimes answers not with rebuke, but with a miracle. In this moving account, a young priest, worn down by the rigors of monastic life, witnesses a quiet but undeniable act[…]
December 11, 2025, in 2019, His Beatitude Patriarch John X and the Holy Synod of Antioch released an important pastoral letter entitled Family, the Joy of Life. This important letter was blessed, authorized and published by the Patriarch and Holy Synod and proclaims the teaching of our Orthodox Faith on family life. As such,[…]
I am struck by the silence in which You entered our wretched world, my sweet Jesus. You came to us, my Lord, with awe-filled humility. You did not appear in glory and splendor. You turned toward us with a veiled majesty and stillness. You were born in the flesh on a quiet night, in[…]
December 11, 2025, man is endowed with the innate need to learn and to discover new means of acquiring knowledge. In his fallen state, however, he tends to confuse this need for novelty with the gratification of the passions and that is why, when we abandon God and turn towards the material world, we[…]
December 5, 2025, it has long been repeated in popular Christian and secular discourse that Christianity is a “feminine religion,” evidenced by the predominance of women over men in Orthodox worship gatherings. This is not true everywhere. Now, some accuse Orthodoxy of being “masculine” simply because they have observed an increase in young men[…]
