Recently Transcribed Episodes

Food, Faith, and Fasting
Eating in a Chaste Manner

Episode date: May 25, 2011
Transcript published: February 06, 2013

Welcome to another edition of Food, Faith, and Fasting. Last time we met, we were talking about the importance of choosing nutritious foods to fortify the body to allow the physical body to be a helper and an aid to the soul, so as to allow them to both work together to ascend toward God. Today we are going to continue on this concept of spiritually minded eating and returning to allowing the act of eating and drinking to be an act that takes place in our daily lives to glorify God.

Today we are going to focus on the aspect of portion control. How much food does our body really need to be satisfied? In fact, this is interesting, because…

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Food, Faith, and Fasting
Nourishing the Body to Serve As an Aid to the Soul

Episode date: May 11, 2011
Transcript published: February 06, 2013

Welcome to another edition of Food, Faith, and Fasting. Last time we met, we were talking about the importance of eating in a spiritually-minded manner. We were returning to being more mindful of why we are eating, the act of eating. We were reminding ourselves about the importance of prayers before and after a meal.

This time we are going to continue to build upon this act of spiritual eating and focus on how we nourish the body to serve as an aid to the soul—“true, proper nourishment that our bodies need to be healthy, to prevent chronic diseases, to manage diseases if we have them, such as diabetes and high cholesterol,…

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The Morning Offering
Suffering in the Salvation of Humankind

Episode date: January 24, 2013
Transcript published: January 30, 2013

Elder Ambrose of Optina Monastery said:

We should not forget that in our age of sophistication, even little children are spiritually harmed by what they see and hear. As a result, purification is required and this is only accomplished through bodily suffering. You must understand that paradisal bliss is granted to no one without suffering.  A person has salvation, not only by his good deeds, but also by his patient suffering of various griefs, illnesses, misfortunes and failures (Luke 16:19-31, Mark 8:31-38, Romans 6:3-11, Hebrews 12:1-3).

Jesus Christ gives us the power which is needed for…

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Ancient Faith Today
Faith and Celebrity

Episode date: January 13, 2013
Transcript published: January 14, 2013

Kevin Allen: Welcome to Ancient Faith Today. We’re Orthodox Media’s live listener call-in program on contemporary issues through the lens of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Her holy Tradition. We’re streaming live right now and will be taking calls. The lines are open, and the call-in number is 1-855-AF-RADIO. That’s 1-855-237-2346. Our chat room is now open at ancientfaith.com/ancientfaithtoday. You can also in the future check us out on Facebook, and while you’re there give us a “like”; we appreciate that.

Our sponsor tonight is museum-quality Legacy Icons. Check out…

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A Word from the Holy Fathers
St Mark the Ascetic: Taking Up the Cross With Joy

Episode date: December 21, 2012
Transcript published: December 27, 2012

The text I would like to address today is a small saying attributed to St. Mark the Ascetic, sometimes known as St. Mark the Monk or St. Mark the Hermit. He was a great ascetic of the Egyptian Desert who lived in the 5th Century, who was himself a disciple of John Chrysostom, the golden-mouthed; whose divine words are often the subject of our consideration here in these broadcasts.

St. Mark the Monk, having become a monk in his 40th and having been tonsured, as tradition says, by St. John, spent the remainder of his life, some 60 years or so, in the Egyptian Desert in Nytria in lower Egypt. Renowned even among his contemporaries, he…

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