Holy Nativity Orthodox Church

Blessed is the man who knows his own weakness.... St. Isaac the Syrian The ancient Greek saying, "know thyself," has been a...

The troparia to the Holy Trinity said in the Morning Prayers begins the third verse with these words: " Suddenly the Judge will come, a...

We will not be punished or condemned in the age to be because we have sinned, since we were given a mutable and unstable nature.  But we...

I tried more than once in my life to practice the Prayer of Jesus Christ.  I did not succeed. Fr. George Calciu I am working my way...

[God] has, though, apportioned to His free and rational creatures unequally in order [1] that their understanding and their freedom [free...

The cover of the October issue of Common Ground caught my attention as I was waiting for Bonnie at the airport last night.  It intrigues m...

Love your neighbour in the following way: Do not get angry with him and do not bear resentment or a grudge against him.  Do not allow y...

The works of those who live according to God are the following: one man strikes his head all day long [I don't know what this is referr...

Mystery in the Orthodox Church does not refer to something unknown that could be known through study or sleuthing.  Mystery refers to the...

Jesus commanded us that if someone strikes us on one cheek, we should turn and offer him the other.  I must confess that for me this is a...

I’m reading an unpublished novel.  It is historical fiction set in the 1950s or 60s in the first all English language Russian Orthodox C...

I will be convicted at the dread judgement without accusers, And condemned without witnesses; For the book of my conscience will be...

I just got back from Hellbound ?  I have to say that I was expecting much less.  I was expecting a sort of anti-Evangelical, maybe even ...

God's foreknowledge is a mystery.  It is a mystery like God Himself, the Trinity, one in essence and undivided.  As soon as I think ...

If a tree falls in your front yard, and no one hears it, do you still have to cut it up and haul it away? Somehow, philosophical conund...

This last weekend, I led a retreat on prayer.  I wanted the retreat to be about the experience of prayer, not the theory of prayer or s...

I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church. A reoccurring question of inquirers from an Protestant background is whether the ...

St. Cyprian: To Demetrian 24: “An ever-burning Gehenna and the punishment of being devoured by living flames will consume the condemned...

Treat the words of the prayers you say so as to make them part of your emotions and bring them all of the intensity of your personal life...