April 23, 2019 702 0 Does Wine Turn into the Blood in Case of the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts? The Orthodox Church holds an amazing and sublime service called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts during the Great Lent. This Liturgy is ‘abridged’,…
April 21, 2019 448 1 Lord’s Entry into Jerusalem in Various Christian Denominations Christians have celebrated the joyful holiday of the Lord’s Entry into Jerusalem since earliest times with exceptional splendor. There isn’t any Christian nation which…
April 14, 2019 1167 0 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 1086 0 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 982 2 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 810 0 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 509 8 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 107 0 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 1746 3 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 160 0 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…