The Ability to Recognize the Divine, Part 1
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

The Ability to Recognize the Divine, Part 1

Archpriest George Zavershinsky

You can glorify God not so much with the creation of your own hands—with the beautiful interior of churches, icons, and vestments—as with an inner spiritual response, feeling God’s presence where His voice is heard.

Sermon on the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord: On Spiritual Light
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Sermon on the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord: On Spiritual Light

St. Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky), Archbishop of Crimea

One can be a bearer of light even while living without light; and one can live in sunlight while being dead, having no spiritual light within himself.

The Lord Works Through a Person Who Remains in the Background
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

The Lord Works Through a Person Who Remains in the Background

Matthew 14:14–22

Priest Dmitry Baritsky

This is one of the key ideas of the Gospel: blessings from God often come through a person. A person is a mediator.

How to Whiten the Robe of Your Soul
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

How to Whiten the Robe of Your Soul

Revelation: Removing the Veil, Part 9B

Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol

As soon as the contents of the censer were poured out on earth, seven angels with seven trumpets come, ready to blow. And then the Apostle begins to talk about what each of the angels trumpeted.

On False Unity. Open Letter to His Beatitude Onuphry Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine
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Orthodoxy Today

On False Unity. Open Letter to His Beatitude Onuphry Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine

Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and Melitopol

On my own behalf and on behalf of the flock entrusted to me by God, in response to this appeal, I would like to emphasize once again that the unity of the Church of God can only be achieved by the return to Her fold of those who have strayed from the Truth and taken the path of falsehood.