May 2, 2021 Some Facts about the Holy Thursday, the Passions and the Resurrection of Christ that You Might Not Know Known modern theologians Priest Awgustin Sokolowsky and Archpriest Andrey Tkachev talk about the last days of Christ’s passions and His Resurrection from a historical…
April 30, 2021 A Few Thoughts on Miracles and Judas Iscariot The story of Judas, which has long become a household name, is one of betrayal and despair. The word “Judas” is known even by…
April 30, 2021 The Price of Servitude A man of advanced age is sitting in the KGB interrogation chamber. He is a believer in God. The KGB officers have been trying…
April 29, 2021 The Washing of the Feet: a Brief History of the Rite According to the common belief, the rite of the washing of the feet, performed on Maundy Thursday, originated in Jerusalem in the 6-7 centuries….
April 29, 2021 St Luke of Crimea. Reflections on the Washing of the Feet The Last Supper of Christ is so mysterious, so deep and so infinitely important that our hearts become filled with trembling. During this Holy…
April 28, 2021 A Satanist at Church — a True Story with an Unexpected End I know this story from my friend Father Oleg. He is an archpriest and parson of a church in Omsk, Russia He had hired…
April 27, 2021 Self-Pity: a Devil’s Trick Preventing a Person from Showing His Full Potential Nothing destroys a person like self-pity. We have all experienced this feeling in one way or another. It instigates depression, inhibits development, makes a…
April 26, 2021 “He Made a Man Out of Me “ From the Memories of Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain: “There once was a brother in our monastery; a carpenter by trade, whose name…
April 26, 2021 Monastic Tonsure: Second Baptism, or the Marriage of the Soul to Christ Speaking of the holy sacraments, I want to say something about the sacrament of tonsure. Is monastic tonsure a sacrament? Of course it’s a…
April 25, 2021 Palm Sunday: Where are You in the Crowd? Come away with me; let us leave our world and travel back together to the first Palm Sunday in the first century. Stepping out…
April 24, 2021 It is Not the Palm or Willow Branches That Are Consecrated, but the Christian holding Them “Many people celebrate holidays and know these holidays’ names. Often they do it without knowing the reasons why they are established” (St John Chrysostom)….
April 23, 2021 Standing for Hours at the Lenten Services Exhausts Me So Much that I Can no Longer Think Straight. Is Anything Wrong with Me? Different degrees of the described state are familiar to everyone. Moreover, well-known and authoritative clergymen did not hesitate to describe similar experiences in their…
