August 21, 2018 Teach Your Children Well: the Greatest Danger Our Children Face Today All parents in every generation worry about their kids, and try to keep them safe. They not only do this by not letting them…
August 20, 2018 Rejoice, O Full of Grace: The Annunciation and the Role of Virgin Mary in Our Salvation Many people, especially those who are only in the beginning of their spiritual life, often like to think about the “last times”, the coming…
August 20, 2018 6 Things You Can Learn for 20 years of Being Orthodox Christian Today marks the 20th anniversary of my reception into the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church — the Orthodox Church. I was just 22…
August 20, 2018 The Rights of an Orthodox Priest I’m finally home from my running around all summer. It feels good to be (mostly) home for the next nine months. One of my trips early…
August 20, 2018 15 Quotations of Spiritual Guidance by St. Nicodemus the Hagiorite 1. God is the perfect good that we must love; sin is the utter evil that we must abhor and disdain. God is the…
August 18, 2018 The Spiritual Life and How to Be Attuned To It We keep preparing for the spiritual life but never embark on it. We are waiting for the best time or the most appropriate day….
August 18, 2018 Why Is Asceticism so Important in Orthodox Tradition? When God created Adam and Eve, He gave them two commandments: (1) to tend and keep the garden, and (2) to abstain from eating…
August 17, 2018 The Stairs to Holiness: The Entry of Virgin Mary into the Temple According to the Church tradition, Joachim and Anna, the pious spouses and the parents of Virgin Mary, fulfilled their pledge and devoted their child…
August 17, 2018 From the Liturgy of the Catechumens to the Liturgy of the Faithful In this commentary series on the Divine Liturgy I would like examine the original transition from the so-called “Liturgy of the Catechumens” (i.e. the…
August 17, 2018 Personal Stories of Our Brothers: Rescued From The Death Row Brother Oleg Krivenkov has passed away but many people still remember him and pray for his blissful repose. Here is his testimony of his…
August 16, 2018 How Should We React to the Sins of Others? A list compiled by Ugandan seminarian Kiberu George. Love sinners, but hate their deeds, and do not disdain sinners for their failings, so…
August 16, 2018 Our Icon Painters Have Painted a Full-Figure Icon for a Church in Canada An icon of Saint Mardarije of Libertyville and Saint Sebastian of Jackson will soon appear in the Church in honour of All Saints of…
