What do you do when the world’s evil crashes into your life? When grief, anger, and confusion threaten to overwhelm you?

The world offers empty platitudes or calls for vengeance. But the ancient, unchanging faith of the Orthodox Church offers something radically different: a path to authentic victory.

The Leavetaking of the Feast of the Cross unveils the power hidden within the Church's prayers—the same power that compelled saints like Ignatius of Antioch to face wild beasts with joy, declaring, “I am God’s wheat, and I am ground by the teeth of wild beasts that I may be found the pure bread of Christ.”

We journey back to the very moment the True Cross was discovered by St. Helen. This wasn’t just a historical event; it was a revelation of a permanent reality: the Cross is God’s “invinci ...