#Renewal 2/3

Jun 10, 20192 min read

God Breaks the Bondage of the World

"This world - with its ideas, principles, rules, and in general, with all its order, which has been elevated to the status of an...

May 31, 20191 min read

Release Your Spirit

"Release your spirit, give freedom to it, and it will flow towards that from which it was taken - towards God." - St. Theophan the...

May 29, 20191 min read

Inward Presentation of Divine Reality

"Our spirit, as we have seen, is closed and stifled by many coverings. But by its nature, the human spirit is a spectator of the divine...

May 17, 20191 min read

Are you preparing yourself?

The days and weeks after Pascha (Easter) are ripe with opportunity to open yourself to God in a new and more complete way. Look to the...

May 15, 20191 min read

Awakening Can Come in Two Ways

God will sometimes grant a person external manifestations of the Divine Order, which are quite often visions that are revealed while...

May 13, 20191 min read

Fear Can Accompany Awakening

"It is remarkable that this grace-given awakening is always accompanied by a startling and by some kind of fright. This startling and...

May 9, 20191 min read

New Ways of Understanding

Even though we can never truly grasp God's brilliant complexity and awestriking luminosity, He is always inviting us onto a pathway of...

May 3, 20191 min read

A Self-Made Life is Not Christian

"The true Christian life is the grace-given life. Self-made life - however beautiful in appearance it may be and to whatever outward...

May 1, 20191 min read

How the Prodigal Son Found the Light

"In the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32) these moments (cf. "Wake Up to the Light of Christ") are indicated in the following...

Apr 29, 20191 min read

Wake Up to the Light of Christ

"'Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light' (Ephesians 5:14). This comparison of sinners to those who...

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