April 12, 2021 An Icon has Started to Exude Myrrh in the Seletsky Monastery The image has been painted by one of the monastics. An icon of the Most Holy Theotokos recently began exuding myrrh in the Seletsky…
April 9, 2021 Sign of the Cross: How Is It Made by Different Denominations? Part Two The church continues her Lenten journey to the New Passover of Christ giving this week special attention to the Holy Cross of the Lord…
April 9, 2021 The Title Panel of the Holy Cross in Rome — a Relic or a Forgery? Historian Timothy Kitnis weighs the evidence on both sides The discovery of the Holy Life-bearing Cross took occurred in 326, when the Byzantine empress…
April 6, 2021 Why Do Liberal Leanings Meet a Suspicious Reaction at Church? We, the Orthodox, are often reproached with being conservative. “Why cannot you open up more? Why are you still clinging to the middle ages?”…
March 21, 2021 Jvari Monastery in Georgia Jvari (translated as “Cross”) is a monastery of the Georgian Orthodox Church, located 21 km from the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi. It is located…
March 16, 2021 The Fraternity of the Seven Hermits There is a community, considered one of the oldest on the Holy Mountain. They were last seen by a young monk, who was in…
March 7, 2021 Zočište Monastery: Serbian Shrine in Kosovo where Albanians also Pray “I hardly know anyone who would not be healed here,” says the abbot of the monastery. Black chickens roam in the courtyard of Sts…
March 1, 2021 The Drug That You Watch I find nursing homes depressing, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. I wonder, though, if others share my reason. It’s not the…
February 26, 2021 Autocephalous Church Over the centuries, the Church founded by Christ has expanded the area of its presence and increased the number of its communities. The small…
February 22, 2021 How Long before Political Correctness Brings Animal Rights Fighters to Start Questioning the Bible? The fine balance between protecting animal rights and attacking humans. People whom we would now call activists have existed in all times. They are…
February 10, 2021 Autonomous Church In the previous article on church structure, we briefly talked about the exarchate, as the lowest level of church self-government, not including, of course,…
February 10, 2021 “What Can the Righteous Do?” I sometimes find that it is very depressing not to live under a rock. If I lived under a rock, I would not know…
