March 13, 2019 What Do We Mean When We Say “Prayer?” As Great Lent is approaching let us take some time to dwell on prayer. Lent is usually a time of greater concentration on our…
March 13, 2019 Simple Tips on How to Keep Lent in Your Family Let’s be honest: how do we moms feel when we suddenly realize while we are in Liturgy, that the Gospel reading for the Sunday…
March 12, 2019 Some Key Points of the Orthodox Christian Way of Fasting The sacred and venerable discipline of fasting in the Orthodox Church, linked to both the Old and New Testaments, is a tradition which continues…
March 12, 2019 “To Avoid Sins, You Should Think About Their Consequences!” Brothers, why are we so susceptible to sin? That is because we don’t consider its consequences. We want to taste the sordid sweetness of…
March 11, 2019 Great Lent: the Time to Put Your Life’s Worries aside Just yesterday we Orthodox were called by Christ to forgive one another as part of Forgiveness Sunday and our preparation for entering into Great Lent . Lent is…
March 11, 2019 “The More Spiritual Effort You Make, the More You Get!” I hope that everyone has at least heard that “there is no salvation without humility.” All emotional and bodily pleasures are regrettably opposed to…
March 10, 2019 The Day Before Great Lent The last preparatory week before the Great Lent is over. It has an alternative name — Meatfare Week — due to the fact that…
March 10, 2019 Forgiveness Sunday Tomorrow we enter the holy days of Great Lent, and the Church calls us to ask forgiveness of one another with repentance and humility…
March 8, 2019 Why Grumbling Diminishes All Your Patience Have you noticed how often we find ourselves grumbling about this or that? It seems that it is our nature to complain about…
March 8, 2019 Can I Leave Church Immediately After the Lord’s Prayer, If I Don’t Plan to Take Communion? If you choose to leave the church at any moment during the Divine Liturgy, no one is going to hold you back. The thing…
March 8, 2019 Why Do Some Icons of St. Matrona of Moscow Portray Her with Open Eyes, While Other Icons Portray Her with Closed Eyes? Icon painting is based on the canon, that is, the rule. On the other hand, we have to deal with lots of issues all…
March 7, 2019 How Am I Supposed to Learn to Love God? Question: I am trying to learn to love Christ. I know with certainty that I believe in God and believe in Christ, but how…
