Words of Spiritual Benefit
A word for every season — read, watch, be edified
Reflections, sermons and words for every season — read, watch and be edified.
The Joy of the Resurrection
What does the Resurrection actually change? Everything. In this conversation, His Eminence Archbishop Angaelos answers honest, searching questions about faith,…
A Word for Every Season
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Reading the Icon of the Resurrection
The icon of the Resurrection — the Anastasis — does not show the moment of rising, which no eye saw. It shows its meaning: Christ, blazing in white and gold, s…
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Repentance & Confession
Repentance is not self-hatred; it is homesickness. The prodigal son “came to himself” in the far country and remembered whose son he was — and while he was sti…
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“Be Still and Know”
“Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10). The Hebrew word for “be still” means to let go — to unclench the fists. In a city that never stops, stillness…
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The Meaning of Fasting
Copts fast for more than two hundred days a year — yet fasting is not hunger, and it is not a diet. It is freedom. We abstain from certain foods so that the bo…
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Prayer of the Heart
“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Twelve words — and the desert fathers built a whole life of prayer on them. The Jesus Prayer is no…