How Christians can lend without losing love, when it is right to refuse, and what the borrower must do when a debt can no longer be repaid.
How the Iron Guard used Orthodox icons, clergy and the language of sacrifice to clothe a political programme in authority the Church had never granted.
A married layman and father of five, Saint George walked barefoot through Moldavia with the Psalter, praying by night and serving the poor.
A disciple of Saint Paisius, founder and first spiritual father of Văratec, Saint Joseph carried the Philokalic tradition into a large community of nuns.
Saint Joseph the Hesychast left a small brotherhood whose spiritual line renewed six Athonite monasteries and carried noetic prayer across the world.
On 15 August the Church commemorates the true death and translation to life of the Mother of God. Why the feast is called the Dormition.
Descending from Tabor, Christ finds a kneeling father and powerless disciples. A patristic reading on faith, prayer and fasting.
Matthias was chosen by lot to restore the company of the Twelve. Scripture preserves his election; Tradition, his preaching and martyrdom.
Saint Myron of Crete was a farmer, husband, priest and bishop. His life shows how almsgiving and gentleness can bring a sinner to amendment.
On Tabor the Lord lifted for a moment the veil over His glory and opened the eyes of the disciples. What the feast asks of our own sight, and how it is kept.