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The salvation of the soul by St. Nikolai Velimirovich

After a large number of people had gathered around our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord spoke these words: “What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?” In addition, He spoke these words: “What can a man give in exchange for his soul?” This means that a man’s soul has more value …

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Liberal Christianity will not survive for a long time – Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev

Address at the opening session of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, Geneva, 13 February 2008. Source: Europaica: I would like to draw your attention to the danger of liberal Christianity. The liberalization of moral standards, initiated by some Protestant and Anglican communities several decades ago and developing with ever-increasing speed, has now brought us to a situation …

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NICHOLAS PLANAS (1851-1932) “The Simple Shepherd Of The Simple Sheep”

  It is necessary in the materialistic age in which we live, to become acquainted with holy personalities which our long-suffering Lord sends us, so that we can be assured that He has not abandoned us. One such personality is “Papa” (Father) Nicholas Planas, who lived in the beginning of our century. HIS BIRTH He was born in Naxos in 1851. …

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Saint Paisios: Ordeals help people Recover

I hear, O Elder, about the sufferings of my people. Will their hard times ever end? Be patient, my sister, and never lose your hope to God. As I understood from all the ordeals that your people are going through, God loves you and allows all these ordeals so that the whole family will shine spiritually. If we look into …

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British woman gives birth to her own grandson, acting as surrogate mother for her gay son

Thaddeus Baklinski  Wed Mar 11, 2015 March 11, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British woman has given birth to her own grandson, acting as a surrogate mother for her homosexual son. Kyle Casson’s 46-year-old mother, Anne-Marie Casson, 46, of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, carried a donated egg fertilized with her son’s sperm. The UK’s 2008 Human Fertilization and Embryology Act, which governs …

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Sermon: The History of the Cross

By Metropolitan Augoustinos (Kantiotes) of Florina [1] Help us, O Cross of Christ! Today, beloved brothers and sisters, we mark a great feast, a great celebration: it is the Exaltation of the Precious Cross. This feast carries us off to Golgotha on the day that the Son of Man and the Son of the Virgin was crucified. Today we will …

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I’m gay, and I oppose gay marriage

Doug Mainwaring – Wed Mar 27, 2013 March 27, 2013 (thePublicDiscourse.com) – In our sometimes misguided efforts to expand our freedom, selfish adults have systematically dismantled that which is most precious to children as they grow and develop. That’s why I am now speaking out against same-sex marriage. By the way, I am gay. A few days ago I testified against pending …

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We Die and Yet We Live! The Veneration of the Holy Cross

  We believe that there is someone who works differently, the mystery of life. Because of the death of Jesus Christ on the cross, we can now enjoy eternal life. The cross is the symbol of the power and authority of the philanthropic God on earth – a triumph of death – through His death as a human but His …

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Sermon for the Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Many a time we have heard the Scriptural passage that says, ‘Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends’. We can view this passage in a new light: Greater love has no one more than God who …

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