Holy Nativity Orthodox Church

Lord, if you had been here… When Lazarus dies, his sisters, Martha and Mary, are overwhelmed with sadness, confusion and probably not...

“The Dark Night of the Soul” is a term made famous by St. John of the Cross, a sixteenth century Spanish mystic. St. John wrote a long po...

From This To This My Christian experience before Orthodoxy was among the Charismatic and Pentecostal Protestants.   Recently sev...

The Green Shift Phenomenon In my last post , I spoke of two options for Christian living.  These options, marriage or monasticism, are...

In With Pain and Love for Contemporary Man , Elder Paisios says, “You must know that a hard-working man will prosper no matter what he do...

I When many of the Fathers of the Church warn us to keep active and aware, they are not speaking of physical actions and good works—altho...

Today the Virgin comes to the cave where she will give birth in an ineffable manner to the Word Who is before all the ages. Rejoice, t...

Recently I have encountered several people who are in distress because they don’t feel that they are doing some aspect of their spiritua...

In Luke’s Gospel, just before Jesus is betrayed, he has this conversation with His disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane: And He sa...