Hope for Departed Non-Orthodox - St. John Max...

St. Nikolai's words from the mid-twentieth century are still relevant for American Orthodoxy today.📖 An excerpt from: St Nikolai Velimirovich on Orthodoxy in America & Its Future https://www.orthodoxhistory.org/2018/07/18/st-nikolai-velimirovich-orthodoxy-america-future/🎧 Orthod ...  Show more

Wisdom from the desert fathers of early Orthodox monasticism regarding welcoming others, showing hospitality, fasting, breaking one's own fast, among other matters. Note: Geronda is Greek for "Elder"📖 Text is from the Gerondikon (Sayings of the Desert Fathers) https://stanthonysm ...  Show more

… Stricken with leprosy, he came to see it not as a curse, but as a special favor from heaven and a personal calling from Christ, the One who sets the contest.… the illness was destroying the members of his body—eyes, hands and feet—so that in the end he remained immobile. Yet th ...  Show more

This week, Fr. Barouyr investigates the spirituality behind. St. Gregory of Nareg’s masterwork, his Book of Lamentations. He explores what we need to understand to use the prayers in our prayer practice, such as St. Gregory’s deep spiritual understanding of Biblical figures, and ...  Show more

This lecture was given on February 17th, 2024, at The Dominican House of Studies. For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events About the Speaker: Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy was born in Columbus, Ohio and grew up in the southeast suburb of ...  Show more

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died at 9:34 a.m. Rome time, today, Saturday, December 31st, 2022. On this special update episode of “Inside the Vatican,” veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell joins host Colleen Dulle for a conversation on the emeritus pope’s funeral arrangem ...  Show more