May 15, 2013
Metropolitan Philip and Orthodox Unity in America
Metropolitan Tikhon was the guest of His Eminence, Metropolitan Philip at the offices of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North...
Reflections in Christ
May 14, 2013
Trampling Death
… they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. (Acts 4:2)
Cemeteries in many parts of the Orthodox world will be...
The Aftermath
It was the most memorable Passover ever! Invariably, each soul that had been touched in some way by the profound events of historic importance resumed “normal” life. The Gospels certainly relate the most important part of...
Keeping our Faces in a Facebook World
We live in a Facebook world—that is, in a world characterized by the presence of what has come to be called “social media.” Much ink has been spilled describing this revolutionary new phenomenon, some people lauding...
May 10, 2013
Never Helpless
Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” (Acts 3:6)
Every day we...
Death’s dominion has been shattered!
The souls bound in the chains of hades, O Christ, seeing Thy compassion without measure, pressed onward to the light with joyful steps, praising the eternal Pascha.
(Matins, Paschal Canon of Saint John of Damascus)
The...
May 9, 2013
The Spirit Blows Where it Wishes
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of...
May 8, 2013
Christ is risen!
This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses. (Acts 2:32)
It’s 6:00 a.m. and I’m sitting in New York’s JFK airport...
The People’s Pascha
At the end of October in 1840, the celebrated author Hans Christian Andersen (famous for his fairy tales) left his native Denmark for an extended trip in the east. He wrote about his travels in his book A Poet’s Bazaar: a...
April 30, 2013
“In the light of the Resurrection”
“We waited, and at last our expectations were fulfilled,” writes the Serbian Bishop Nikolai of Ochrid, describing the Easter service at...