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  Today we celebrate the Feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy; what triumph is being spoken of now? When we look around, when we look into the depths of the Orthodox faith that is dear to us, how much defeat and dejection we see – how little, it would seem, there is to celebrate. But […]

TAGS: Church, Church Fathers, faith, human weakness, icons, Incarnation, liturgy, Liturgy of St Basil, riumph of Orthodoxy, sacred tradition, spirituality, St Andrew of Crete, veneration of icons, victory of grace


Today we remember the day when the Holy Spirit descended upon the first disciples of Christ. “When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed […]

TAGS: apostles, Church, gifts of the Spirit, grace, Holy Spirit, Pentecost, responsibility, spiritual life


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