Orthodoxy

See what fasting does: it heals illnesses, drives out demons, removes wicked thoughts, and makes the heart pure…

Before modern Christianity’s “Seven Deadly Sins,’ classic Christianity diagnosed these major passions. Saint John Cassian calls these he eight deadly thoughts. The cures are easy to list.

About 350 AD, Saint Cyril of Jerusalem describes Jesus Christ: This is He who is and He who was, Consubstantial with the Father, Only-begotten, Only-enthroned,

If you see a man who has sinned and you do not pity him, the grace of God will leave you. Whoever curses bad people,

Most Bibles that are available in North America today are published by Protestants; consequently, the Old Testaments in these Bibles are translations based on the

Most of us who receive Communion do so on Sunday. Then afterward: Household chores, cafes, friends and so on. How can we guard and not

From a letter of Saint Basil, Archbishop of Caesarea (330-379 AD), to a friend who had fallen into sin. Make the effort to rise from

by Bishop Hilarion (Alfeyev) A lecture delivered at St Mary’s Cathedral, Minneapolis, USA, on 5 November 2002 The Byzantine and old Russian icons of the

Hieromartyr Irenaeus of Lyons (c. 130-202) was bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, which is now Lyons, France. A Greek from Smyrna in Asia Minor, he

The Gospel may be a lot simpler than we think!

A homily of St. Theodore the Studite (+826 A.D.) on the precious and life-giving Cross In eleventh-century England, the Western monk Anselm of Canterbury wrote