May 1, 2020 “You Will Go Out and Say that There Is No God. Because If You Won’t…” One poor old woman had two children: a son and a daughter. The son became a monk, and the daughter, because of poverty, committed…
April 30, 2020 Both Sorrow and Joy Can Serve for Salvation “Two monks once fell into a grave sin. But, in time, they repented and said: “Well, what benefit have we received by leaving the…
April 29, 2020 How to Pray for Love: The Priest’s Opinion To begin with, in brief: for a Christian, praying for love always means praying for the family, and the prayer can be as simple…
April 29, 2020 Orthodox How To: Why Do We Sing So Much? Why do we sing so much? It’s hard to find anything in Orthodox worship which isn’t sung. This is because traditional Jewish services were…
April 28, 2020 He Was Supposed to Play Christ in a Tailcoat On Easter – but Instead of Blasphemy, the Incredible Happened This wonderful story with the participation of the once famous actor Alexander Rostovtsev happened about a century ago. Soviet Union. A campaign of religion…
April 28, 2020 Radonitsa. Why Did Christ Not Do Away With Physical Death? One week after Easter, the words “Christ is risen – He is Risen, indeed” still reverberate in our ears. People usually go to the…
April 26, 2020 The Good Unbelief of Thomas In one of its hymns, our Church calls the unbelief of Thomas “good”. Understandably one would wonder – is there good and bad unbelief?…
April 25, 2020 Descent into Hell: Where Is It in Scripture? Question: Where in Scripture can one find verses that the Savior brought up from hell all the righteous and repentant? Answer: About the Savior’s…
April 24, 2020 The Great and Holy Feast of Pascha at St. Elisabeth Convent The feast of feasts, the solemnity of solemnities! See how it was celebrated at our convent this year in the photo blog:
April 24, 2020 Questions You’ve Always Intended to Ask about Orthodox Worship but Never Got Around to It I originally intended this to be a short introduction to a new series on the Divine Liturgy, but somehow it got out of control,…
April 23, 2020 How Should One Understand the Words “In the Beginning Was the Word”? Question: How should one understand the words “In the beginning was the Word”? Answer: In the first verse of the fourth Gospel, of the…
April 22, 2020 About Witnesses and False Witnesses Christ is risen! The gospel today speaks of the first disciples of the Lord, and the book of the Acts tells how they first…
