The number of dramatic events in the world, with many deaths, increased so much in the last years that there is not one single day without such episodes… All mechanisms, machines, tools, factories and vehicles started to malfunction or rather to ‘disobey’ to the level of explosions and destructions with horrible consequences. In the same

The Calligraphy class, that is the learning of writing beautifully from early years of schooling, disappeared and have been replaced by the typing lessons. A few years ago, a colleague told us that he was so happy when coming across with news that the handwriting will be fully replaced by typewriting in schools, very soon.

A well known protestant preacher, who is in jail today, a man otherwise close to Orthodoxy through the many heartfelt presentations and debates that he made in regards to Creation and by refuting Evolution, said once this particular utterance: “If you are not in business, why do you advertise?”. He was referring to a girl

We observe that the number of the shiny materials around increased by the day, so to speak. The Narcissistic growth of the world society into this display did not start a long time ago. Dear friend, just look around and say what you see! Very often, our own image would be seen, reflected by myriads

By Metropolitan Anthony of Kiev and Galich Our note: The world will never understand a divine faith, one that is not of this world, but is rather blindly following a popular pope or is more interested in “social conscience”, which is all of this world. The West is not even worldly-wise enough to satisfy even

The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all” (II St. Timothy 2:24) Our pious lay brethren in Christ would do well to pay particular attention to the question of zeal. The holy Fathers say that the person who is not possessed by genuine zeal in Christ “never arrives at peace

According to individual remarks and also, to even more solid investigations, the sickness found in each of us was used and is continually used for pecuniary purposes, by giant corporations dealing in the pharmaceutical industry, developing medical and ‘health’ policies. In regards to ‘mental sickness’ the number of tricks used by the bosses of this

With so much tumult in the world and so many ‘issues’ on the news bulletins, we have no more time for ourselves or time to care for things near us. We forgot to enjoy looking at a sunrise and we forgot to look outside the screen of the television set! Many little creatures around have

The Orthodox World-View Before beginning my talk, a word or two on why it is important to have an Orthodox world-view, and why it is more difficult to build one today than in past centuries. In past centuries—for example, in 19th century Russia—the Orthodox world-view was an important part of Orthodox life and was supported

Any rational human being who is not so much attracted to the irrationality of drugs, pornography and other sinful deeds must be able to see the extent of manipulation found in the media, across the whole earth. To identify the defects of international media, one just needs to think of the connotation of these two

Come, my dearly beloved; come my Fathers and Brothers, the flock chosen of God, soldiers of Christ sealed in your foreheads. Come, My sons,attend to this discourse designed to promote the salvation of your souls. Come and let us communicate while this solemn time and happy opportunity of communicating lasts. Come, let us lay hold

This article explains some aspects of the much talked about coming technological revolution (or google-zeitgeist). We live in a world which is to go off: each individual or every normal group of people from any dwelling place of a town, land, country or continent is feeling this thing, while we speak. Whether or not one

by Archpriest Alexander Rudakov Published in 1890 in Saint Petersburg Introductory Concepts § 1. Understanding of the Divine Services. The Divine Services of the Orthodox Church are comprised of all those prayers and sacred rites, through which Orthodox Christians convey to God their feelings of faith, hope and love, and by means of which they

By the Ever-Memorable Archbishop Averky of Jordanville ACCORDING to an ancient precept of our Holy Church, which derives from the Apostolic times themselves, on the Monday after the Sunday of All Saints, which follows that of Pentecost, a fast begins, which bears the name the Apostles’ Fast, or St Peter’s Fast, because it serves as

The World created by our Lord God was so different from what we have now. Through our Forefathers’ Fall, everything changed, completely. The Unity that the world once had was destroyed. That World had a spiritual and material harmony that no one could experience today. To some extent, a Blessed Person or a Saint could

Modern ecclesiological heresies corrupt the very concept of the Church. Ecumenism, as a theological concept, organized social movement and religious practice, is such a heresy. Many spirit-bearing Orthodox hierarchs and theologians of the preceding twentieth century defined it as heresy in its essence. One of the major steps in the attempt to implement the ecumenical

This is the extent to which the Christianity of the west has far gone into heresy – accepting anyone to come to preach to their gatherings, and even listening to aberrations like those described below without a single reaction … From well trusted sources, we can present some of the tricks that an alleged theologian

The very architectural (!) frame of the Western Society was designed in ways that everything becomes equal: all things are nicely aligned on the same street, and all streets are forming a grid of precise patterns. There is no centre to start with, but a number of important institutions, such as banks, schools, churches, shops

We all nearly forgot the way things were once, but we still can ask the question: how is that possible that a civilised world, based on Christian principals, went away, becoming antichristian to the core? Our contemporary modern society becomes worse, in terms of that normality with that Christian set of rules that used to