
Fruit of the Spirit | Peace In the World Begins with Peace with Ourselves
When a man’s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. Proverbs 16:7 As with every Fruit of the Spirit, there is an opposing force that threatens to “sour” the fruit. Today we begin to examine “peace,” the third Fruit of the Spirit.

Faith Can Move a Mountain
And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to Jesus and kneeling before Him said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly; for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to

The Life of the Apostle Is Hard
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are

Feastday Epistles and Gospels | Dormition of the Virgin Mary
Now as they went on their way, He entered a village; and a woman named Martha received Him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to His teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving; and she went to

Feastday Epistles and Gospels | Christ Had to Become Like Us—He Did So Through the Virgin Mary
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though He was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found

The Dormition of the Theotokos
The following in an excerpt from “Eros of Orthodoxy,” translated by Fr. Nicholas Palis and written by Mr. Pantelis Paschou. In the books of our Church, the Dormition of the Theotokos, which is celebrated on the 15th of August, is noted with these words: “On the 15th of this month,