Reflections on the statement offered by the Orthodox Church in America’s Synod of Bishops on Marriage, Homosexuality, and Gender.

Completely have trust in God, leave everything in His hands, and believe that His love will act for your own benefit. Then God will take care of everything, because there is nothing He cannot do; everything is easy for Him. The difficult thing is for man to decide to humble himself and leave everything to God’s providence and love.”

-St. Paisios

An Orthodox Response to the Overturning of Roe V. Wade

"Anything That Doesn't Lead to God is a Waste of Time" -St. Paisios the Athonite

All of this devastation has been met with a lot of pain, anger, and agony. Pain for the families…anger over the sin and the brokenness of our country…and agony over the tremendous loss of life that our country has experienced over these past several years. Whether it is the mental health of our youth which has been severely damaged…the ease of obtaining weapons capable of such destruction…or the failure we as adults and a society, who have slowly removed the knowledge of God from our everyday life, it is apparent that there is something that is inherently broken in our world.