April 23, 2018 A Quiet Apocalypse The sound of the world around us generally qualifies as little more than noise. Almost nothing advertises itself as unimportant or something to be…
April 17, 2018 The Main Reason Why We Should Be Practicing Orthodox Christians Why do I do it? Why am I a practicing Orthodox Christian. It’s not because it’s the true faith, the oldest form of Christianity,…
April 11, 2018 “There Is no Death!”: a Short Paschal Sermon There is no death! You see?! And we need to live with this because life on the brink of a grave turns into hell….
April 10, 2018 3 Answers from Father Andrew: Why Did Jesus Have to Die in Order to Save Man? Archpriest Andrew Lemeshonok, the spiritual father of St. Elisabeth Convent, answers various questions of the parishioners. Why did Jesus have to die in…
April 2, 2018 3 Answers from Father Andrew: How Should We Interpret “God’s Wrath upon Sinners” in Psalter? Archpriest Andrew Lemeshonok, the spiritual father of St. Elisabeth Convent, answers various questions of the parishioners. How would you describe the joy that…
March 30, 2018 With the Saints Give Rest: People Whom We Can’t See Anymore but Continue to Love Earthly love is born in the same place where tears are born: in the eye. You’ve got to see in order to love. The…
March 27, 2018 Reflecting on Orthodoxy and Today’s Culture What is the aim of life (death)? For Orthodox Christians it is salvation and eternal life with God. How are we saved? Paul tells…
March 20, 2018 Our Faces To Beam with Light As a Result of Great Lent We are accustomed to being guided solely by our personal experience. We do not have the courage to speak about the struggle and the…
March 19, 2018 About the Most Terrible Inabstinence of Great Lent If we understand Great Lent as the abstinence from lack of love, and not just from butter, then it will be a bright fast…
March 16, 2018 Great Lent Through the Eyes of the Old Testament Great Lent, my beloved brethren, begins today and will be completed in forty days on the Friday of Lazarus. As our Church introduces us…
March 15, 2018 “The Lord Wants Every Person to Be Saved and Knocks at Everyone’s Heart” Dear Mother Abbess, fathers, brothers and sisters! First of all, I would like to congratulate you all with the feast day, for today…
March 9, 2018 Lenten or not: How to Read Ingredient Labels during Great Lent Back in the day, there were no canned foods, chemically cloned flavors, hermetically sealed wrappers, governmentally required labelling, the FDA, Food Police and trace…
