Reflections in Christ

Christ is risen! Indeed he is risen! Leaving the Paschal feast behind can be a source of sadness, but we must recall the words of the Lord which he told us, his disciples, at the supper…

Today, the pharisees’ narrow dogmatism (“We are disciples of Moses”) is confronted with the experiential truth, the manifest reality, of the Lordship of Jesus Christ. The blind…

The name of Saint Photine, or Svetlana, is connected with light: phos (Greek) or svet (Slavic). She came to Jacob’s Well for ordinary, earthly water, but she encountered Christ who is the…

I greet you with joy, my beloved brother and concelebrant, on this luminous occasion, the day of your enthronement as Metropolitan of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North…

The Gospel we read in church on this mid-feast of Pentecost tells of a time that Jesus, during his earthly ministry, stood up in the temple and taught. The icon…

On many icons of Saint John the Theologian, the saint sits with his Gospel open but a hand clasped over his mouth, guarding his silence. This image reminds us that, even though…

“The Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will testify of me, and you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.” ...

Saint Alexis Toth was canonized in 1995. Among the evidence for his holiness was a miracle whereby his prayers reunited a father and his long-lost son. This…

Time and again, the hymns of this joyous season point out that the myrrh-bearers were a little confused: Nicodemus had already buried the Body of the Lord with about a hundred pounds of myrrh…