Orthodox Gladness

Why is Christ called the way in Scripture? So that you may learn that through Him we ascend to the Father. Why is He called the cornerstone?...

  I know that many of us, because of the custom of doing so during the Feast, will approach the divine Table. You must, however, as I have s...

 

Every where, beloved, we have need of faith, faith the mother of blessings, the medicine of salvation; and without this it is impossible to ...

Saint John Chrysostom died in exile in 407.  31 years after his death, his honest relics were transferred to Constantinople.  On the day of ...

The Church is not organized for those who gather in it to be divided, but for those who are divided to be united. - St. John Chrysostom.

"This phrase is a fatal blow to the devil! "Thank God for all things!" It is too great for the one who tells it in every dan...

If during the Divine Liturgy we indulge in everyday concerns and our attention at this hour is entertained by them, leaving the praise of G...

Thou wast a divinely inspired instrument through which the Holy Spirit hath sounded forth unto us; for with a magnificent voice the sound of...

Let us not regard praise as an unimportant matter, but let our life exalt it before the mouth, and our behavior before the tongue. Then we c...

"If you do not have love for a person, then act as if you love him, and the Lord will give you love for your labors." - St. John C...

When you begin to correct a bad habit, then at least once, at least two, three times, at least twenty times you have transgressed the law, d...

St. John Chrysostom complained bitterly in his conversations that many communicants left the church before the end of the liturgy: they bare...

  “If you had lived in that golden time, when Jesus Christ visibly dwelt among men, would you not have prepared a bed for Him in your home, ...