January 9, 2019 Christmas Memories from the Catalog of Good Deeds: “The First Liturgy in Adulthood and a Christmas Tree from the Country that Does Not Exist” Dear friends! The Catalog of Good Deeds team starts a new series of personal stories devoted to the Feast of the Nativity. Our brothers and sisters…
January 9, 2019 Personal Story: the Mystery of Conversion and the Long Way to It I often hear stories from people I’ve met along the way about the path that lead them to Orthodoxy. More often than not‚ these…
January 9, 2019 Prayer as the Reflection of Your Spiritual Life “Prayer is the test of everything; prayer is also the source of everything; prayer is the driving force of everything; prayer is also the…
January 4, 2019 Christmas Memories from the Catalog of Good Deeds: “Christmas Parcels from Abroad for Sunday School Students” Dear friends! The Catalog of Good Deeds team starts a new series of personal stories devoted to the Feast of the Nativity. Our brothers…
January 4, 2019 On the Spiritual Value of Silence and Quiet Question: “In the Old Testament we read that there is ‘a time to keep silence and a time to speak’ (Ecclesiastes 3:7). What is the…
January 4, 2019 A Unique Icon: the Expectant Mother of God Nowadays, we often call a woman who is expecting a child gravid, from a Latin word which means heavy. A much more apt…
January 3, 2019 How Unpracticed Faith Turns to Atheism Unpracticed faith—that is, faith without works—St. James writes, is dead. It has no transformative or sanctifying power; it is intellectual assent that descends into…
January 3, 2019 The Island of Tinos and Its Christmas Traditions Tinian people preserve their local manners and customs as sacred. Besides, many of those stem from ancient religious traditions. These customs survive mostly in…
January 3, 2019 The Sense and Role of the Great (Royal) Hours Canonical hours are a type of special, fairly brief divine offices that mark certain times of day, at which a certain important event of…
January 3, 2019 One of the Most Important Services: “The All-Night Vigil” Album Review The All-Night Vigil is one of the most important Services of the Orthodox Church. First, Jesus Christ Himself used to spend “all night in…
January 2, 2019 Orthodox Priests on How We Can Know the Will of God In the course of our lives, we are often faced with the choice of how to proceed, which path to walk down, and not…
January 2, 2019 Is There a Fate That You Can’t Avoid? The word ‘fate’ comes from the Latin word fatum, which broadly translates as ‘God’s judgment’. Therefore, the foreordained plan of our lives, which we…
