…one who fights for God and his people, even if alone, will never be defeated. —Coreneliu Zelea Codreanu Corneliu Zelea Codreanu was a Romanian Orthodox leader of The Legion of…
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The Optina Martyrs
At The Ringing Of The Bells details the lives and faith of three monks (Hieromonk Vasily, Monk Therapont, and Monk Trophim) who were all killed by a Satanist during a…
Orthodoxy And The Religion Of The Future
Satan, it would seem, is now entering naked into human history. The years just ahead promise to be more terrible than anyone can now easily conceive. —Fr. Seraphim Rose Orthodoxy…
The Kardiotissa Myrrh-Streaming Icon
After a three-week stay at Holy Trinity Monastery, culminating with me being received into the Orthodox Church, my brain was overloaded with spiritual knowledge and a list of tasks I…
How To Live A Simple Life
On Living Simply by St. John Chrysostom is a little book that is packed with Christian wisdom. As an anti-materialist, St. John teaches the Christian to keep his eyes on…
On The Human Condition By Saint Basil The Great
What is Christianity? Likeness to God as far as is possible for human nature. —St. Basil the Great St Basil the Great, a saint in both the Orthodox and Catholic…
You Must Suffer
One of the most difficult topics concerning Christianity is suffering. Lord Jesus Christ called us to pick up and carry our cross while not being of the world, but how…
The Rise Of The Orthosphere
Five years ago, I would estimate that most of my readers knew nothing about Orthodox Christianity, but now many know the basics, and some have become catechumens, and several have…
The Orthodoxy Of Early Christian Writings
One thing I like about Orthodoxy is that it hasn’t strayed from the teachings of the Church Fathers. To verify this, I dived into Early Christians Writings, a compendium of…
Saint Joseph The Hesychast
Saint Joseph was a Greek monk who achieved the heights of theosis on Mount Athos in the middle of the 20th century. His perfection of hesychasm (advanced interior prayer) caused…
Why I Left The Armenian Church For ROCOR
And about the eleventh hour [the landowner] went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day?’ They said to…
12 Things I Learned From Visiting Holy Trinity Monastery In New York
Last fall I visited Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York (a ROCOR monastery) for the second time in two years. On the first visit, I did not have a…
The Orthodox Survival Course By Father Seraphim Rose
…there is a God and there is the devil; and world history goes on between these two adversaries. And man… man’s heart is the field on which it is played…
How To Live A Holy Life
I didn’t expect much from How To Live A Holy Life, a compact 150-page book written by Metropolitan Postnikov in 1856, but it turned out to be one of my…
The Struggle For Virtue
The Struggle For Virtue by Archbishop Averky of ROCOR came to me in two ways. First, by an online suggestion that was strong enough for me to order it. Second,…
