December 1, 2022 Nativity Fast: Why Fast More than the Early Christians? On November 28, we entered the Nativity Fast. Although it is somewhat less strict and less intense than Great Lent, its duration is the…
November 8, 2022 Who Sang at the Ancient Divine Services and How? History of the Eight Ecclesiastical Modes The history of liturgical singing begins in the Heavenly world, where the angelic ranks sing praise to God. Their song originates from before the…
October 25, 2022 The Locus of the Image of God in Man: the Body, the Soul, or Both? The Scripture teaches us that God created man in His image: “in the image of God He created him” (Genesis 1:27). But what constitutes…
October 11, 2022 The Story Behind the Jesus Prayer The Jesus Prayer is a treasure of the Holy Tradition of the Orthodox Church. It reaffirms in succinct form the two central tenets of…
October 10, 2022 My Miracle of Healing by the Prayers of Saint Sergius of Radonezh It happened to me in August 2006. I was on holiday at my summerhouse near Sergiev Posad, working on my novel “Last Link.” Unexpectedly,…
September 27, 2022 Curious Facts about the Cross What Does the Image of a Cross with Branches Mean? At church, we can often see the image of the Cross of the Lord…
September 13, 2022 Why Does the Church Celebrate the New Year on September 14? The “canon” of celebrating New Year’s Eve on January 1 has firmly rooted itself in our minds. However, this is just one of…
September 7, 2022 Dealing with Pride Correctly Let us talk about pride, the most basic of human sins. The Venerable John Climacus in his book The Ladder of Divine Ascent wrote:…
August 30, 2022 Can Any Priest Be a Spiritual Father? The Origin of Spiritual Leadership in Ancient Christianity and the Modern Tradition Volumes have been written on spiritual membership, but this topic still attracts the interest of the laity and clergy. Not every ordained priest can…
August 24, 2022 Canon: the Most and the Least Known Genre among Church Hymns The canon is one genre in church hymnography with which we are perfectly familiar in practice, so this time we will talk about theory….
