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Christianity is a religion of asceticism, instructing us to store up our treasures in heaven, where the benefits have eternal value. Throughout the New Testament we read of the importance of struggle, where focus on the acquisition of a humble and contrite heart is paramount to what it means to be a Christian. The Lord

Abbot Tryphon May 11, 2022 Orthodox Christianity, Praxis, Senior Contributors, Spirituality

Asceticism, Morning Offering, Salvation

The reader will find below a most pertinent letter by St. Ignatius Brianchaninov. In it, he addresses mentalities and ideas that have only become more accentuated in our times. As Orthodox Christians, St. Ignatius calls us to cultivate our understanding, not on arbitrary ideas from the world but rather the everlasting Truth of Jesus Christ.

Fr. Zechariah Lynch May 11, 2022 Orthodox Christianity, Praxis

Heresy, Jesus Christ, Salvation, St. Ignatius Brianchaninov

In this post, my dear reader, you will find sermon seven on the Divine Liturgy, by St. Seraphim (Zvezdinsky). Translating is very instructive. A number of times I’ve encountered references to certain things or practices that I am unfamiliar with. This provides the opportunity for me to study out that aspect a little more. In

Fr. Zechariah Lynch May 10, 2022 Church History, Orthodox Christianity, Praxis, Worship

Catacomb Worship, Church Fathers, Divine Liturgy, Divine Services, Early Church, Living The Faith, New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Zvezdinski), New Martyrs of Russia, On The Divine Services, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Church, Orthodox Faith, Orthodox Liturgy, Orthodox Living, Sermons On The Divine Liturgy

Is the filioque an addition or a clarification to the creed? What does it mean that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son? How do we make sense of scripture and the Fathers in some cases speaking of a double procession? Is this merely a semantical issue lead by problems in translation

David Erhan May 9, 2022 Apologetics, Christology, Orthodox Christianity, Senior Contributors, Theology, Trinitarian Theology

Filioque, Roman Catholicism, Video

EXCLUSIVE! Paradise Lost News has obtained exclusive access to the transcript of the first ecumenical dialogue of love, as it has been called, that is taking place this day in Eden itself. The transcript contains the address of Lucifer, leader of the fallen angels, to the relatively new creation of God, mankind, in the representatives

Fr. Zechariah Lynch May 6, 2022 Apologetics, Christian Lifestyle, Orthodox Christianity, Praxis

Adam and Eve, Ecumenical Movement, Ecumenism, Orthodox Unity

As a single man, I don’t think I will ever reach a level of maturity as that of my married peers, because there is nothing material outside of me that I care more about than myself. The entire world revolves around me and my needs, even if they include the realm of the spiritual, and

Roosh Valizadeh May 6, 2022 Christian Lifestyle

Marriage, Singlehood

We must practice reverence in the temple, whether during services or when we step into the church to light a candle and venerate the holy icons. The temple is the place set apart for the worship of the Holy Trinity and is the place where the Bloodless Sacrifice is offered before the Throne of God.

Abbot Tryphon May 5, 2022 Orthodox Christianity, Prayer, Senior Contributors, Spiritual Disciplines, Spirituality, Theology, Worship

Church, Morning Offering, Orthodox Temples, Temple

Standing before God has been the only acceptable posture for Orthodox Christians from the earliest of times. We recognize that a faithful servant would never sit before his master, for the faithful are all servants of the Lord, whom we worship as we stand in our temples. The Holy Apostle Paul tells us, “Watch ye,

Abbot Tryphon May 4, 2022 Orthodox Christianity, Prayer, Senior Contributors, Spirituality, Worship

Asceticism, Morning Offering

Below the reader will find my continued work in translating the sermons of New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Zvezdinski) on the Divine Liturgy. May these sermons deepen in us a love and awe for the holy and divinely revealed worship of the Church.

Fr. Zechariah Lynch May 3, 2022 Church History, Orthodox Christianity, Praxis, Worship

As Christians we must believe that our ultimate welfare is in the hands of God and recognize that our life, although filled with many difficulties and struggles, is a journey of anticipation to the Eternal Life that is to come. Because this journey is not without sorrow and pain, worry and anxiety, it is easy

Abbot Tryphon May 2, 2022 Orthodox Christianity, Praxis, Senior Contributors

Despondency, Morning Offering

Americans are not a particularly patient people, as demonstrated by the fact that the fast food industry began with us. We don’t tolerate slow service, thus much of the food we consume is prepared before we order it. We drive our car to a window, order our food, and expect it to be ready, without

Abbot Tryphon May 1, 2022 Christian Lifestyle, Orthodox Christianity, Praxis, Senior Contributors, Spirituality

Asceticism, Fasting, Morning Offering

Our nation is going through a period of economic slough, with many families having suffered great loss. Mortgage foreclosures have displaced many from their homes, with increased numbers of children attending school, counted among the homeless, and hiding their plight from their friends. They are living in motels, in family vans, or even tents, and

Abbot Tryphon April 30, 2022 Christian Lifestyle, Orthodox Christianity, Praxis, Senior Contributors

Morning Offering

One thing I like about Orthodoxy is that it hasn’t strayed from the teachings of the Church Fathers. To verify this, I dived into Early Christians Writings, a compendium of non-canonical epistles that aided the first few centuries of the Church. Most of the letters implore Christians to fervently follow Lord Jesus Christ while depending less

Roosh Valizadeh April 29, 2022 Early Christian Writings , Orthodox Christianity

Book Review

Our Orthodox Christian theology views evil not as a primeval essence that is co-eternal and equal to God, but rather a falling away from good. Evil does not exist in and of itself, and was not created by God. Our Orthodox Church rejects the Gnostic teaching that the entirety of being is made up of

Abbot Tryphon April 28, 2022 Orthodox Christianity, Theology

Evil, Gnosticism, Morning Offering, Saint Anthony of Egypt, Saint Basil the Great

We are living in a period of history that has seen the cause of human rights take the forefront as never before. We champion the cause of equality under the law for minorities, and continue the struggle for equal rights and equal pay for women, but ignore the rights of the most vulnerable among us,

Abbot Tryphon April 26, 2022 Orthodox Christianity

Abortion, Morning Offering

I’m pleased to present more of the sermons of St. Seraphim (Zvezdinski) on the Divine Liturgy, which I have been working to translate from Russian. They speak for themselves, I pray your zeal for the worship of God in the Divine Liturgy will increase through the words of this beautiful New Martyr.

Fr. Zechariah Lynch April 26, 2022 Church History, Orthodox Christianity, Praxis, Worship

One medicine for the heart is the use of a “Prayer Rule.” This “Rule” is of the utmost importance, for the prayer rule helps develop the discipline we all need to progress, spiritually. It is one of the great tools the Orthodox Way has to offer, and has been handed down, from the earliest of

Abbot Tryphon April 25, 2022 Prayer, Senior Contributors

Morning Offering, Prayer Rule

Saint Joseph was a Greek monk who achieved the heights of theosis on Mount Athos in the middle of the 20th century. His perfection of hesychasm (advanced interior prayer) caused many monastics to follow him, including Elder Ephraim, who would later establish over a dozen monasteries in the United States and Canada, one of which I visited. My

Roosh Valizadeh April 22, 2022 Orthodox Christianity

Book Review, Saint Joseph The Hesychast

Along with the commemoration of the Lord’s washing of the disciples’ feet, the agony in the garden of Gethsemane, and the betrayal of Christ by Judas, the Church commemorates the institution of the Eucharist, on Great and Holy Thursday. At the Mystical Supper in the Upper Room Jesus gave a dramatically new meaning to the

Abbot Tryphon April 21, 2022 Orthodox Christianity, Senior Contributors

Eucharist, Lent, Morning Offering

There is a beautiful tradition within the life of the Church for believers to have as their last meal before beginning the Great Lenten Fast, to eat a hard boiled egg, white in color. This egg represents our sinful nature, and we eat this egg with the hope that the Lenten journey will bring us

Abbot Tryphon April 19, 2022 Orthodox Christianity, Senior Contributors

Morning Offering, Pascha, Paschal Egg

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