December 9, 2020 Do Not Disfigure the Divine Image or How a Saint Healed Other Saint’s Mother Venerable Peter the Hermit of Galatia lived during the IV-V century. He was able to perform miracles, just as Christ did, so that even…
December 8, 2020 Fasting in the Fast Lane: Is It Okay to Watch TV Series during the Fast? Well, off the top of my head, I was going to ignore this question since the answer seemed self-apparent. But let us try…
December 7, 2020 Where Is the Kingdom of Heaven? Luke 17: 20-25 1 Tim. 5: 1-10 Once the Pharisees asked the Lord Jesus Christ, “When will the Kingdom of God come”? The question…
December 7, 2020 The Feast of the Entrance and the Protoevangelium of James Much of the hymnography adorning our Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple causes the raising of eyebrows—talk about Mary being…
December 6, 2020 Human: The Divine Image or Dust of the Ground? Lecturer of the Kiev Theological Academy Andrey Muzolf reflects. For many people, the above two characteristics are incompatible. Not for the Orthodox, who in…
December 6, 2020 Why Is St Alexander Nevsky Depicted Wearing an Ermine Mantle? Dmitry Trofimov, head of the Tsargrad creative workshops answers. Indeed, it is unlikely that the holy and right-believing Prince Alexander Nevsky wore a mantle…
December 5, 2020 God’s Providence Is Inscrutable A story of a monk who prayed about knowing God’s inconceivable ways Instead of humbly bowing before God, inscrutable in His ways and actions,…
December 5, 2020 Practical Advice on Information Impoverishment as a Way of Fasting Informational fasting is no less important for a modern person than fasting in food. Indeed, gorging on information or, one might even say, “information…
December 4, 2020 To the Deniers of the Clergy People have been asking me how I would respond to someone who claims that that the clergy is not necessary and that they do…
December 3, 2020 Did the Mother of God Enter the Temple? Confession of a Doubter A friend once told me about an article on one religious website on the feast of the Entrance of the Most Pure Theotokos into…
December 2, 2020 Elder Porphyrios of Kafsokalivia: Three Examples of His Exceptional Perceptiveness Spiritual writer Pavle Rak shares his memories of the elder whom he and his family knew in person. Let me start with a story…
December 1, 2020 What Is the Purpose of Prayer? A Few Words about Constancy If we look closely at the holy angels, we will notice several particularities: 1. Angels exist to do the will of God. They are…
