September 19, 2018 The Girl Who Could Have Not Been Born or How Mother of God Helps Our Contemporaries The Most Holy Theotokos helps not only half-legendary people from ancient times but also us: we just have to ask. Priests of our Diocese…
September 19, 2018 Top 10 Facts About Archangel Michael 1. The name Michael in Hebrew means “Who is like God” (Mîkhā’ēl), i.e. there is no one like God. 2. He is titled…
September 18, 2018 How and What for to Become a Reader? Question: “How does one become a Reader, and what does a Reader do?” Answer: We learn a great deal about what it means to be…
September 18, 2018 Do We Really Need so Many Rituals in the Church? Compared to the contemporary worship of most Protestant churches and post-Vatican II Roman Catholic churches, the worship of the Orthodox Church seems overly-formal, complicated,…
September 18, 2018 If You Want Your Children to Change, Change Yourselves She thanks the Lord not only for joys but also for sorrows. Anna has had more than her fair share of sorrows in the…
September 17, 2018 A Convert Problem that Orthodoxy in America Faces Today The Orthodox Church in the United States has problems. One of the problems the Orthodox Church currently suffers in this country is a lack…
September 17, 2018 Who Brings Us to Christ? Growing up I was blessed to have many mentors and guides in the Faith. One of my role models was, and continues to be,…
September 17, 2018 Fr. Andrew (Konanos): “We All Get What We Ask For” There was a young man who asked God to teach him to love the whole world impartially, without seeking his own profit. He wanted…
September 15, 2018 What Should You Ask God For? There lived an ascetic who asked the Lord to grant him knowledge of many revelations and mysteries. One day, on the road leading to…
September 14, 2018 Reflections on the Feast of the Elevation of the Cross The Feast of the Elevation of the Cross does not primarily commemorate the crucifixion of Christ. That saving event is commemorated every year on…
September 14, 2018 How to Mark Our Time on Earth: the Ecclesiastical New Year in the Orthodox Church Have you ever noticed the ways we mark the passage of time in our lives? Since my “day job” is in a university, I…
September 14, 2018 Turning Developer into Water: a Personal Story about the Miraculous Power of the Cross This story was told to me in 1987 by Hieromonk Theophylact from Pskov Caves Monastery, previously known as Konstantin Nikolayevich Belyanin who had been…
