Holy Nativity Orthodox Church

Elder Porphyrios I received an e-mail yesterday from someone asking advice on how to find a spiritual father.  I had to tell him that f...

“The Word of God…judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart” (Heb. 4: 12) “There are good thoughts, and good volitions; there are ...

One of the difficult transitions or junctures of the spiritual life is the movement between what St. Isaac the Syrian calls the second and t...

In my last blog post , I spoke about the middle way, the way of spiritual discipline that does not err to the left (too lax) or to the right...

The Spiritual Life is Not a Race The Fathers and Mothers of the Church often speak of two ways we err in our pursuit of godliness: to t...

I just received the newsletter from St. Barbara’s Monastery , in Santa Paula, CA.   I consider the Abbess there, Abbess Victoria, my first s...

Berries in my back yard “Until we find love, our labour is in the land of thorns.” Last week I drove from Langley, British Columbi...

Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!  That the mountains might shake at your presence.  (Isa. 64:1) A common question p...