April 14, 2019 How Mary of Egypt Guarded Her 5 Senses and Reached Holiness The Fifth Sunday of the Great Lent is marked with the memory of Saint Mary of Egypt – the great sinner turned a greatest…
April 7, 2019 How not to Throw Yourself down the Ladder The fourth Sunday of the Great Lent is dedicated to the memory of Saint John Climacus (†649), a great Orthodox ascetic. St. John was the…
March 31, 2019 How Can We Bear Our Cross and What Does It Mean Exactly? The third week of the Great Lent is called the Week of the Veneration of the Holy Cross. We venerate the Holy Cross of…
March 24, 2019 St. Gregory Palamas: 9 Facts about the Originator of the Tabor Light Teaching We commemorate the great theologian and monk Saint Gregory Palamas on the second Sunday of the Great Lent. When we mention the name of this saint…
March 17, 2019 5 Greatest Heresies and How the Church Overcame Them There is an unusual and rare service called The Triumph of Orthodoxy held only once a year, on the first Sunday of the Great…
March 10, 2019 8 Important Things to Remember in Anticipation of Great Lent The Great Lent is near. It is time for every Christian to pause and think what he or she should give up for the…
March 7, 2019 13 Obstacles on the Way to Becoming a Priest Ecclesiastical hierarchy plays a very important role in the life of the Church. The Church cannot exist or perform Her salvific ministry in the…
March 3, 2019 7 Reasons for Pride and 7 Pieces of Advice on How to Cope with This Passion Pride is the most terrible passion in a human soul. It was because of pride that Lucifer fell. It was because of pride that…
February 28, 2019 What Gifts Were Granted to the Prodigal Son and What Do They Symbolize? The Church prepares us for the beginning of the Great Lent step by step. We have been reminded of Zacchaeus who was seeking Christ…
February 17, 2019 What Is Antidoron and What Is Its Origin and Meaning? Everyone who has been to an Orthodox Liturgy must have seen altar servers or the priest himself dispensing pieces of a special bread called…
February 9, 2019 9 Main Principles of the Modern Missionary Work in Orthodoxy I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. (John 4:35). The Holy Orthodox…
February 7, 2019 Why Does Orthodox Church not Use Musical Instruments? A reader of our blog has asked us recently in the comments to the post concerning musical instruments in the Bible (see the mentioned…
