March 3, 2020 How to Become Like Christ this Lent Forgiving is one of serious tests for people. Very serious, because at the moment a person forgives, he can become like Christ. In general,…
March 3, 2020 How to Deal with Physical Fatigue During Worship? Practical Tips A divine service is not a pleasant concert, it is a prayerful effort. After the Fall, everything good is difficult for a person, and…
March 2, 2020 Two Reasons Priests Love the Rite of Forgiveness On this, the first day of Great Lent, I ask your forgiveness for all I have done, both in ignorance and intention, to harm…
February 29, 2020 Example of a Bible Scribe Error The Bible is the Word of God. It enjoys unquestionable authority for all Christians and is the main source of Christian teaching. However, being…
February 28, 2020 Disciplina Arcani You may sometimes hear that in the times of the Primitive Church there was a secret doctrine that was not available to all members….
February 22, 2020 Proskomedia Particles The first part of the Liturgy is called Proskomedia (Greek: προσκομιδή – bringing). During this preliminary part of the Eucharist, clerics prepare bread and…
February 21, 2020 Help for the Departed Souls from Commemoration at the Liturgy (Saint Gregory the Great’s legend of a monk who died during his epitimia and was forgiven after thirty-day commemoration) Prayers, commemoration charity work performed…
February 21, 2020 What Is The Pledge? When a priest is being ordained, the bishop hands over to him the so-called Pledge (Greek: παρακαταθήκη), a particle of the Body of Christ….
February 15, 2020 The Triple Meaning of the Axios You can always hear a very ancient exclamation, most often in Ancient Greek – ἄξιος, which means “worthy”, during the ordination of the deacon,…
February 11, 2020 The Marks of the Church: the Church as Apostolic We come at last to the final adjective in the Creed’s description of the Church: apostolic. The word “apostolic” comes from the Greek word apostello,…
February 7, 2020 The Meeting of the Bishop before the Liturgy The meeting of the bishop does not happen very often in the life of any parish, and there are some remote parishes that have…
February 4, 2020 The Marks of the Church: the Church as Catholic Every Sunday we confess in the Creed that we believe in “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church”. But what do we mean when we…
