Articles for category: Essential Reading

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH

An appeal to the Ecumenical Patriarch to turn back from attempting to unite with the Roman Catholics, only to divide the united Orthodox (1964).

January 19, 2025 by Fr. Epiphanios Theodoropoulos
Ecumenism, Essential Reading, Other faiths, Translations from Greek

PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW SOLD OUT HIS BROTHER

Protopresbyter John Diotis presents the Patriarch’s own words which show that he stabbed Metropolitan Onuphry and the canonical Ukranian Church in the back.

December 9, 2023 by Protopresbyter John Diotis
Essential Reading, Translations from Greek

INTERVIEW WITH BLESSED FR ROMAN BRAGA

Fr. Roman talks about his early years, God and the devil, prayer, the mission of Orthodox Christians in America, his arrests and imprisonment in Pitesti.

October 22, 2023 by Orthodox Witness
Essential Reading, Orthodox models

The “Jesus Prayer”: 11 quotations from the Saints

The “Jesus Prayer”: “the lifeline of the soul and of the body”, the “foundation of perfection”, a “spiritual weapon” and the “source of all good works.”

December 11, 2020 by Orthodox Witness
Essential Reading, Prayer, Translations from Greek