August 12, 2018 235 0 Practical Advice on How to Avoid Lust In the Orthodox Church, there is a battle chest available, providing us with practical ways to resist sin and to actually defeat it. We…
August 10, 2018 57 0 Parable of the Day: Why to Waste Time with Prayer? A fisherman was ferrying a man across the river in his boat. The passenger was in a hurry and screamed, “Come on! I’m late…
August 10, 2018 183 1 Three Rhetorical Questions about Divine Liturgy I sometimes cannot help asking myself three liturgical questions whenever I visit churches which serve the Liturgy in the “classic” pattern I learned in…
August 9, 2018 282 0 How to Understand You Are Pure Enough A woman was reading the Book of Malachi: When she was reading Chapter 3, she was puzzled by verse 3, “And he shall sit…
August 9, 2018 332 0 A Personal Story about the Miraculous Help of St. Herman of Alaska Some time ago, in the 1990s, our parish invited a local “tree surgeon,” Leo M., to cut down a couple of dead trees in…
August 8, 2018 44 0 Parable of the Day: You Have to Live Here and Now! There was a carpenter — and a good carpenter he was, indeed — who liked to put everything off until a later time. As…
August 8, 2018 47 0 “Every Christian Is an Icon Painter!” We haven’t heard about iconoclasm for many centuries now. Icons are no longer destroyed, like they were in the 8th and early 9th century….
August 8, 2018 1408 0 The Fall of the Devil: Is It an Orthodox Belief? A friend wrote: “My kids want to know where we got the story of the fall of the devil… How he was originally an…
August 7, 2018 117 0 Parable of the Day: How Is Love Supposed to Unite Us? Here is a parable passed on to us by the Holy Fathers. Imagine a circle on the floor. In the middle of this circle…
August 7, 2018 129 0 How Could We Teach Our Children to Fast? Teaching children to fast is very basic in an Orthodox Christian upbringing, like teaching them to pray. The question of when and how strictly…