Author: Nicholas Denysenko
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Thy Bridal Chamber: Holy Week in the Orthodox Church
NICHOLAS DENYSENKO — Participating in Holy Week is deepening our communion in the Lord, in his love.
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Lent: A Door to Renewal
NICHOLAS DENYSENKO — The purpose is for us to be with God, and for us to be restored and renewed, but not irritable and exhausted.
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Time of Troubles, Then and Now: Nicaea’s Confession “True God of True God”
NICHOLAS DENYSENKO — This anniversary of the council of Nicaea reminds us that its core message is not and was never about some messianic age that would be manifest in a particular empire, country, political party, or leader.
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Lent, Gluttony, and Lust
NICHOLAS DENYSENKO — The fulfillment put into us, that we seek, comes only from God and cannot be found in the world.
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Christ, Looking at You
NICHOLAS DENYSENKO — The holy fathers and mothers are looking at us.
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‘For I was Hungry’: A Testimonial to USAID
NICHOLAS DENYSENKO — The values I had learned as the grandson of immigrants who lived in poverty and in my native Orthodox Church – to honor human dignity and obey the Gospel imperative to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit and heal the sick, and tend to the oppressed (Mt. 25:31-46) – I saw…
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Our Gift to Christ
NICHOLAS DENYSENKO — It seems, however, that our song is all too often mere lip service to what we want to be true – that God sent Christ into the world to validate the political philosophies and kingdoms of our construction.
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Thanksgiving for Bearers of Hope
NICHOLAS DENYSENKO — The most powerful force inside me insists that God will remain God – the one who seeks the lost sheep to return them to the flock because of irresistible love.
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Amen Corner: War
NICHOLAS DENYSENKO — Christians have every reason to invest entirely in fervent prayer for the end of war and its humanitarian catastrophe.