February 16, 2018 Forgivenes Sunday as Our Guide into Great Lent I miss Ash Wednesday, the Western liturgical churches’ entry into Lent. The ashes on the forehead in the shape of the Cross, the important…
February 15, 2018 Personal Stories of the Clergy of St. Elisabeth Convent: Father Eugene Pavelchuk Fr. Eugene Pavelchuk: There is no Christianity without carrying one’s cross, i.e., without accepting God’s will and cutting off one’s own: Whosoever will come…
February 9, 2018 An Orthodox Man Dies while Saving a Homeless Man George Velikanov, an altar-server of the church of the All-Merciful Savior in Moscow, and the former first press secretary of the Orthodox “Mercy” social…
January 15, 2018 One Country Helping Another: An Orthodox Mission in Kenya Ruslan Yarotsky, a religion studies major and a former Evangelical pastor who is now an Orthodox missionary from Hrodna and the Director of a…
December 15, 2017 In the Passenger Seat: An excerpt from “A Pilgrim’s Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy” He was an Episcopal priest, but he was standing in an Orthodox church on this Saturday night and thinking about Truth. At the altar…
December 6, 2017 Personal Stories: Practice Makes Permanent! While coaching my daughter’s soccer team a few years back, I invited Katherine, an accomplished high school soccer player, to work with my ten-year-old…
November 8, 2017 Leif Eriksson: the First Orthodox Christian in America Most people are aware that the Norse explorer Leif Eriksson was the first European to reach America, some 500 years before Christopher Columbus,…
October 17, 2017 To Help the Helpers: an Interview with Bishop Panteleimon of Orekhovo-Zuevo The Right Reverend Panteleimon, bp. of Orekhovo-Zuevo, the Chairman of the Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Ministry, and the spiritual father of…
October 10, 2017 5000 Churches Built and 10000 Clergymen Ordained in the Past Six Years in Russia “There could not be such growth in the Church if there were no demand. That is why we feel so special when we place…
March 21, 2017 “Seek the Lord”: an Interview with Nun Juliania, the Precentor of the Festive Choir of St.Elisabeth Convent The Festive Choir of St Elisabeth Convent celebrates its 20th anniversary. It is a noteworthy date – a date to remember. There will be…
May 19, 2016 How we miss out on the most important thing – The Liturgy! What I would like us to talk about during this meeting is, perhaps, the same topic that we used to speak about last time….
