September 25, 2017 The Question of Long Hair in Orthodox Christianity Question: How do you reconcile the Orthodox practice of clergy and monastics not cutting their hair with 1st Corinthians 11:14, which says: “Does not…
September 14, 2017 Happy (Ecclesiastical) New Year: Why Orthodox Christians Celebrate the New Year in September? The first day of September is celebrated as the Ecclesiastical or Church New Year by Orthodox Christians. It is also a day marked…
September 11, 2017 About the Particles Taken out During the Proskomedia “And there will be one flock and one shepherd” (John 10:16). Since ancient Apostolic times the Liturgy was served with one Bread (and…
September 7, 2017 Thoughts About the Office of Reader in the Orthodox Church My son, the first degree of the Priesthood is that of Reader. It behooveth thee therefore, to peruse the divine Scriptures daily, to the…
September 6, 2017 Understanding the Mystery and Meaning of the Eighth Day The Church preserves its identity thoroughly. 2000 years that passed did not manage to change the Gospel. It remains the same good news and…
August 30, 2017 Advice Regarding Prayer Before and After Work Everything that happens should lead us to God and say, “Nothing happens without God’s will; God knows what is good and profitable, and that…
August 29, 2017 How Should Orthodox Christians Study the Holy Scripture Properly? If a Christian does not refer to the Holy Scripture then his prayer, which is not united with the word of God, then it…
August 15, 2017 Why Are Orthodox Christian Priests Allowed to be Married? Apparently there is some confusion between the requirements for priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church, and the requirements in the Eastern Orthodox Church. In…
August 12, 2017 Why do Orthodox Christians kiss the hand of a bishop or priest? A few of our new inquirers have asked about the practice of kissing the priest’s hand. For people outside of the Orthodox Tradition (and…
August 10, 2017 A List of Orthodox Christians in Various Countries By Population The number of Orthodox Christians in the world, according to different accounts is somewhere between 125 and 180 million. It is often difficult to…
August 10, 2017 How to Keep the Church Typicon According to St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco The divine services and rites of the Orthodox Church, having as their foundation one typicon and preserving commonality in all that is substantially…
July 31, 2017 Suggestions of Athonite Elders Concerning Children’s Confession Hieromonk Pavel is an archondar of Dionysiou Monastery. For many years, he gives guidance to hundreds of laypeople who come from Greece, Cyprus and…
