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• Interview with Hadel Ma’ayeh: From the Heart Means All You Need is Love

  

  We are pleased to announce that Hadel S. Ma'ayeh, our HuffPo Passionista and author of From the Heart: A Journey of Love (Hope Life Press, 2014), has just... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 SPIRITUALITY

• Relics – 7 – The Blessed Virgin Mary

  

  Above is a reliquary showing a piece from the sash (ex fascia) of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ and Queen of heaven and earth. You can rea... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Relics – 6 – Jesus Christ

  

  Above is a small reliquary showing a fragment of the pillar to which Jesus Christ was tied during His scourging (ex columna flagellationis). Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Relics – 5 – St Seraphim of Sarov

  

  Above is a reliquary showing a bone fragment (ex ossibus) of the greatest of the 19th century startsy, the humble Saint Seraphim of Sarov. Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Relics – 4 – St Sergius of Radonezh

  

  Above is a reliquary showing a bone fragment (ex ossibus) of Saint Sergius of Radonezh, the humble, ascetic spiritual leader of Russia in the 14th century and... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Relics – 3 – The Maccabean Martyrs

  

  Above is a theca showing small bone fragments (ex ossibus) of the Holy Maccabean martyrs of the Old Testament (2 Macc). You can read more about their story here... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Relics – 2 – St Benedict Joseph Labre

  

  Above is a reliquary showing both a bone fragment (ex ossibus) and a piece of clothing (ex indumentis) of Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, the “holy hobo.” You can... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• From the Heart – A Journey of Love #4 Bestseller in Middle Eastern Poetry

  

  From the Heart - A Journey of Love by the Jordanian-American author and HuffPo Passionista Hadel S. Ma'ayeh (Hope Life Press, 2014) is now the #4 Bestseller i... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2015 SPIRITUALITY

• Coming Soon – Divine Light by Fr Richard Cannuli, OSA

  

  Hope Life Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming release of a new book of original stained glass window designs and mosaics titled Divine Light:... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2015 SPIRITUALITY

• Juha Roisko Interviewed at Orthodox Christian Network

  

  Juha Roisko, our Finnish author-photographer of the book Life (Hope Life Press, 2014) and trustee of Uspenski Cathedral in Finland, has just been interviewed... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2015 SPIRITUALITY

• Icon Drawing of God the Father

  

  This is the basic drawing of another icon that I am working on. It shows God our Almighty Father on His throne.And before anyone starts yelling that such an ico... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2015 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• From the Heart – A Journey of Love Called “great Recommendation”

  

  Hadel Ma'ayeh's book of poems, haikus and sayings From the Heart - A Journey of Love (Hope Life Press, 2014) has just been selected by Austin Roarers™ as a "... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2015 SPIRITUALITY

• Top 10 Posts and Pages for 2014

  Here are the top 10 posts and pages for 2014: Envy – Some Characteristics and Presentations Discerning Dreams, Revelations and Visions Discernment... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• On Icons – 14

  “At the crossing of the boundary into the upper world, the soul sheds – like outworn clothes – the images of our everyday emptiness, the psychic effluvia that... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• On Icons – 13

  “In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly; there, free of all images, the soul is fed in... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• A Small Gift for Christmas

  

  As a small gift for Christmas, from today, Monday, 22nd December, 2014 through Friday, 26th December, 2014, you can obtain a FREE copy of the Kindle edition of... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• On Icons of the Theotokos

  Iconography of the Theotokos has a private significance for each human being because it symbolizes his materiality, physicality, and the relation of this... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Our Author Juha Roisko with the President of Finland

  

  (Source: Helsingin Ortodoksinen Seurakunta) Here is our photographer-author Juha Roisko (above, extreme right; below, front, seated to the right) with the... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2014 SPIRITUALITY

• Icons Manifest the Existence of God

  God adorns Himself in magnificence and clothes Himself with beauty. Man stands amazed and contemplates the glory whose light causes a hymn of praise to burst... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Difference Between Dreams, Revelations and Visions

  Originally posted in 2012, I am re-posting the above herewith because of the ongoing number of questions that keep coming in on this subject. Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2014 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY