The Healing of the Lunatic Son. The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Descending from Tabor, Christ finds a kneeling father and powerless disciples. A patristic reading on faith, prayer and fasting.
The Holy Apostle Matthias, Chosen by Lot in the Place of Judas (August 9)
Matthias was chosen by lot to restore the company of the Twelve. Scripture preserves his election; Tradition, his preaching and martyrdom.
Saint Myron the Wonderworker, Bishop of Crete
Saint Myron of Crete was a farmer, husband, priest and bishop. His life shows how almsgiving and gentleness can bring a sinner to amendment.
What Changes at the Transfiguration
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.
The Life of Saint John Jacob the Chozebite (1913–1960)
The life of Saint John Jacob the Chozebite of Neamț, the Romanian monk who struggled in the wilderness of the Jordan and in the cave of Saint Anna at Chozeba.
When Your Neighbour Blasphemes. A Word of St John Chrysostom, Read with Care
What should a Christian do when his neighbour blasphemes? A word of St John Chrysostom, read together with the measure of gentleness, discernment and prayer.
„I Am”: The Name Spoken in the Storm
The Gospel of the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost (Matthew 14:22-34): Christ walks on the sea, Peter begins to sink, and the Name is spoken before the calm.
The Holy Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon
A young physician prepared for the imperial court, Panteleimon kept his art to the end, but placed it under another Master.
The Multiplication of the Loaves and the Division in Corinth — The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Interpreted by the Holy Fathers
The Epistle and Gospel of the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost: what Paul learned from Corinth and how he answered it, and the day Christ fed five thousand people in the wilderness.
Saint Ioanichie the New of Muscel — The Cliff and the Rope
Saint Ioanichie the New of Muscel lived for over thirty years in a cave reached only by rope. A source-based account of what the Romanian Paterikon records and what later retellings added.