S4E3: Overcoming Passions by Focusing on Christ – Wisdom from Saint Paisios

Icon Corner: Saint Gerasimos of Kefalonia – The Ascetic Wonderworker and Patron of the Island of Miracles

Today we turn to one of the most beloved modern saints of the Greek Orthodox Church: Saint Gerasimos of Kefalonia (also spelled Gerasimus). A 16th-century monk, ascetic, and wonderworker, he is the patron saint of the Ionian island of Kefalonia, where his incorrupt relics still perform miracles to this day.

S4E3: Overcoming Passions by Focusing on Christ – Wisdom from Saint Paisios

Today we’re going to talk about the inner battle with our passions—the deep-seated habits and inclinations that pull us away from God—and how Saint Paisios of Mount Athos taught a surprisingly simple yet powerful way to overcome them: stop staring at the sins themselves and fix your gaze fully on Christ instead.

S4E2: Historical Deep Dive: The Prophet Jeremiah

It was the late seventh century before Christ, and the kingdom of Judah was in a season of both reform and gathering storm clouds. The mighty Assyrian Empire, which had crushed the northern kingdom of Israel over a century earlier, was itself weakening and collapsing. Into that power vacuum stepped new players: the rising Babylonians under Nabopolassar and his son Nebuchadnezzar, the Egyptians under Pharaoh Neco, and the fading remnants of Assyrian influence. Judah, that small strip of land between these giants, found itself caught in the middle—politically vulnerable, spiritually adrift.

Saintly Synopsis: Fr. Seraphim Rose - Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future

Imagine, if you will, the quiet forests of northern California in the 1970s—a land of towering redwoods, remote monastic cells, and a small brotherhood of monks laboring to preserve the ancient faith amid the cultural upheavals of America. It was there, at the St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood in Platina, that a converted soul named Eugene Rose, who became Hieromonk Seraphim, took up his pen not as a scholar seeking fame, but as a watchman on the walls, sounding an alarm for the faithful.

S4E1: Historicl Deep Dive - The Prophet Daniel

Imagine, if you will, the dust and clamor of ancient Jerusalem in the early years of the sixth century before Christ. The kingdom of Judah, once vibrant under kings like Josiah who sought reform, had slipped back into shadows of idolatry and unfaithfulness. The prophets had warned—Jeremiah among them—that judgment was coming if the people did not repent. And it did. The mighty Babylonian Empire, under the ambitious and ruthless Nebuchadnezzar II, swept westward like a storm. This is the opening setting of one the historical view of the times when Prophet Daniel would enter the biblical texts, delivering some of the most notable prophecies of the old testament. Join us as we take a historical journey into the times of Daniel.