Messages

Welcome to our collection of Orthodox messages and articles.

"Nothing in this world but God can fill our heart or fully satisfy our desires. A fire cannot be put out with brushwood and oil, because only water can put it out. In exactly the same way, the desires of the human heart cannot be satisfied with the goods of this world, because only the Grace of God can quench the thirst of our desires."
St. Innocent of Alaska

How to Learn to Love the Lord

By Bishop Theophan the Recluse

St. John saw the beauty of the Lord and was attracted to Him. He sensed the Lord’s special love for him and likewise was inflamed with love for Him.

On Love

You, the God-protected ones, cleave through grace to holy love towards God and your neighbour and care about appropriate ways of practicing it.

Concerning Images

By St. John of Damascus

But since some find fault with us for
worshipping and honouring the image of our Saviour and that of our Lady, and those, too, of the rest of the saints and servants of Christ, let them remember that in the beginning God created man after His own image.

Sunday Jan. 25th sermon.

By Father Daniel

Life of Antony

The life and conversation of our holy Father, Antony: written and sent to the monks in foreign parts by our Father among the Saints, Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria. Athanasius the bishop to the brethren in foreign parts.