Articles on saints, holy families, and living Orthodox witness in the Church and the world.
Saint Antipas of Calapodești was a Romanian Orthodox monk venerated in Romania, on Mount Athos, and at Valaam as a teacher of the prayer of the heart.
Saint Basil of Ostrog is venerated as a swift helper of those troubled in mind and soul, of those oppressed by unclean spirits, and of those fallen into despondency.
Commemorated on 20 June, Saint Methodius defended the real continuity between the body we now have and the body of the resurrection against insufficient Origenist explanations.
Saint Nicholas Cabasilas, the lay theologian of life in Christ: his witness on Baptism, Chrismation, the Eucharist, the Divine Liturgy, and holiness for every Christian.
The life of Saint Venerable Theodora of Sihla, the hermitess of the cave: her hesychast solitude, the tradition, the sources, the chronology, and the relics.
The life of Saint Apostle Jude Thaddaeus, the kinsman of the Lord: his names, catholic epistle, preaching, martyrdom, and the faith once for all delivered to the saints.
Saint Paisios the Great shows that Orthodox discernment is not born of intelligence, but of purity, obedience, ascetic labor, and right faith.
Saint Neophytos the Cretan strengthened the hesychast renewal of Poiana Mărului, supported Orthodox books and worship in the people's language, and laid down his life for his flock.
Saint Lazar the Great Martyr, Prince of Serbia, is not venerated merely as the hero of Kosovo, but as a martyr whose sacrifice sealed a life of church-building, communion, and faith.
Saint Justin Popović, one of Orthodoxy's harshest critics of ecumenism, was no schismatic: his life, the pan-heresy, the three falls.