Meditation – St. Dumitru Romanian Orthodox Monastery

Knowing how to die and rise for Christ

Post author:sfdumitru
Post published:March 31, 2023
Post category:Icon from Within (Mar./Apr. ’23)

On the fourth Sunday of Great Lent, we read the Gospel of the healing of the epileptic son. We have this image of the Lord Who descends from Mount Tabor…

The Victory of God

Post author:sfdumitru
Post published:March 31, 2023
Post category:Icon from Within (Mar./Apr. ’23)

Crossing the Red Sea, fresco, 6th cent., Catacombs of Via Latina, Rome On the Sunday of Orthodoxy, we celebrate the victory of the true faith against all heresies, which in…

Following Christ

Post author:sfdumitru
Post published:January 31, 2023
Post category:Icon from Within (Jan./Feb. ’23)

The Sunday of Adam's Expulsion from Heaven is an opportunity of repentance. After the fall, as Saint Maximus the Confessor says, people fell ill from ignorance of the cause of…