Christ is Risen! + Truly, He is Risen! The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything...
Christ is Risen! + Truly He is Risen! He is Sanctification, as being Purity, that the Pure may be contained by Purity. And Redemption, because He sets us free,...
Christ is Risen! + Truly He is Risen! Godalways was, always is, and always will be; or rather,Godalways Is.For Was and Will Be are fragments of ourtime, and of...
Christ is Risen! + Truly He is Risen! The Lord's Passover, the Passover, and again I say the Passover to the honor of the Trinity. This is to us a Feast of...
Christ is Risen! + Truly He is Risen! I will stand upon my watch, says the venerable Habakkuk; and I will take my post beside him today on the authority and...
Friday of Holy Pascha Week On Friday of Holy Pascha Week, our Lord Jesus Christ endured trials and crucifixion. {Jesus before Pilate} Then they took Jesus from...
Wednesday of Holy Pascha Week On Wednesday of Holy Pascha Week, our Lord Jesus Christ spent the day in Bethany at the residence of Simon the leper. There, a...
When this One came from heaven to earth for the sake of the one who suffers, and had clothed Himself with that very one through the womb of a virgin, and...
Greetings in our Lord! may the blessings of Lent and Pascha be upon you! As we approach the end of Lent, and prepare for Passion Week, the bookstore is ...
Once, the slaying of the sheep was precious, but it is worthless now because of the life of the Lord; the death of the sheep was precious, but it is worthless...
“No one could describe the Word of the Father but when He took flesh from thee, O Theotokos; He accepted to be described and restore the fallen image to its...
Believe that, there is nothing better than prayer. It is the road to God. It is the down payment to eternity. Fr. Moses, Stories from the Egyptian Desert ...
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures And St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society cordially...
The first kind of humility is to hold my brother to be wiser than myself, and in all things to rate him higher than myself, and simply, as that holy man said,...
It’s that time of year again! Coptic Orphans is heading back to Los Angeles for our 2nd Annual Fundraising Dinner. We appreciated your presence and support ...
From the Lenten Message of His Grace NIKON The full message can be viewed at http://www.dneoca. org/news_ 071029_1. html During Lent, the Church offers us...
You are cordially invited to two timely public lectures by Dr. Febe Armanios. Please come and invite others. (1) Sunday, 27 March, 2:30 pm, Claremont. See...
If you are really born from Christ, then every other man born from Christ is your brother. But if you love yourself more than your brother, then this increase...
Jonah surely teaches us that the sea and stars are moved under God's control. By vainly seeking to flee from God the controller of all things whom none can ...
The Orthodox Bookstore is pleased to hold its 3rd Annual Ancient Christian InterVarsity Press Sale! This year we are pleased to offer nearly sixty titles at up...
All the glory and beauty of heaven and earth and all the other attractions in such variety, the riches and comeliness, the delights of visible scenes, cannot...
"...we must never blame our birth, or anyone but ourselves, for our sinful actions, because if the soul chooses to be indolent, it cannot resist temptation." ...
For just as trees do not grow unless the agency of water is available to them, so also the soul cannot mount upwards unless it receives heavenly joy. And if ...
"During prayer, intentional, deliberate, extreme humility is indispensable. We must remember who speaks and what he says, this is especially necessary during...
The actual name of Christ, the "Anointed One" already announces and reveals the entire Holy Trinity to us, according to the words of the Holy Fathers. The name...
St. Gregory of Nyssa explained the reason why the Incarnation surpasses the creation of all the creatures: The creation of the world is a natural creation, the...
St. Nikolai of Zica’s (Velimirovic) Prologue of Ohrid is an excellent resource. This synaxarium not only includes the Lives of Saints, but also contains...
Dear brothers and sisters: Like the wise men from the East who brought gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to Christ the Savior, we too give gifts to...