January 22, 2021 What Is the Magisterium of the Orthodox Church? Very often the Orthodox hear the following question: “What does your Church teach on this or that issue?” Where can the Orthodox faithful find…
January 21, 2021 Spirit-Suffused Matter and the Ubiquity of the Demonic In one part of the rite for hallowing water in the Orthodox baptismal service, we read the following: “The priest then blesses the water…
January 9, 2021 What Is the Meaning of Twelvetide, and How Should Be Celebrate It? The Nativity of Christ is the second most prominent feast in the Orthodox Church’s liturgical calendar after the Pascha, and as such, it is…
January 5, 2021 The Custom of the Christmas Tree For many people with a secular outlook, decorating the Christmas tree is the essence of Christmas. In Greece, this custom was imported from abroad…
January 1, 2021 When Did Orthodox Christians Begin to Read Morning Prayers? A Christian’s morning should always begin with prayer and thanksgiving to God for the past night. Opening the Orthodox “best-seller”, known as a prayer…
December 31, 2020 The Mysteries of Worship before Christmas Christmas is the second most significant feast of the Church year. It is no coincidence that people sometimes call it the Winter Pascha. In…
December 30, 2020 Are You Comfortable? Recently I was reading a foreign-language newspaper (well, the English part of it) and there was an article in it about the church. My…
December 16, 2020 Christmas Fast Is Time for Change Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanich) dwells on the important things to do during the Nativity Fast 2020 – 2021. What is our life filled with? Usually…
December 5, 2020 Practical Advice on Information Impoverishment as a Way of Fasting Informational fasting is no less important for a modern person than fasting in food. Indeed, gorging on information or, one might even say, “information…
November 7, 2020 How Can We Best Honor our Departed Loved Ones? We often see the relatives of the deceased spending large sums of money on luxurious monuments and other such attributes in their desire to…
October 17, 2020 The Word, the Mind, and the Heart: Some Practical Tips on Prayer There is a thing called tacit or mental prayer when the praying person, having gathered his mind inside his heart, from there, not audibly,…
October 16, 2020 Where Have the Prayers in the Divine Service Disappeared? “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people” (1 Tim. 2: 1). Following the Apostle’s…
