Come, ye take the light from the Light that is never overtaken by night; Come, glorify Christ who is risen from the dead. This hymn, chanted by the priest at the end of the Paschal Rush Service after the church is darkened, expresses the joy of...

With these words the Angel came to the Myrrh-bearing women who had come to the tomb very early on that Sunday morning to tell them “the time for lamentation is passed; weep not; but announce unto the Apostles the Resurrection.” These words from the Angel turned their sorrow into...

When righteous, indignant, self -serving accusers bring a woman caught in adultery to Jesus to test whether He will follow the Law of Moses and permit her to be stoned, Jesus turns the tables on them. He reminds them that the Law of Moses is to keep all the...

Prayer is the ultimate Euphoria. To be in union with immortality, to be in contact with the divine is to become immortal and divine oneself. How to reach this state of bliss? Ceaseless prayer! What is prayer? To most people prayer is a duty, a chore, a penance. Most...

Christmas time is a joyous season and rightly so, because God in His great mercy and love for us gave us His Only-Begotten Son who came to dwell among us, to be with us, to comfort us, and to open for us the doors of Paradise. We received the...

God loves each and every one of us, yet this love is many times hard to understand. He wants to be with us, not just when we are enjoying good times and good things, but also when we are down, especially when we are down. In times of crisis...

The singular message from Pascha is: Christ tramples down death by death. By His dying on the Cross-a scandal to the Jews and folly to the Greeks- He enters the Devil’s stronghold, Hades, and releases all men and women from their bondage to death. No longer are we to...