May 26, 2021 Growing Colder in Faith after a Few Years in Church: Is This Normal? “I used to enjoy prayers, fasts, lengthy services and pilgrimage trips, but suddenly everything changed. Why?” Reason One. Doubts I believe that growing colder…
May 24, 2021 Why Don’t Temptations Go Away? In homily 69, St. Isaac reminds us that temptations to sin come upon all people, even the “perfect.” Quoting freely from St. Macarius of Alexandria,…
May 21, 2021 The Remains of Some Saints Have Decayed to the Bone. Why Do They Still Call Them Incorruptible? In truth, not all of the saints’ relics are incorruptible. Uncorrupted remains of the body are one out of many criteria for canonisation as…
May 18, 2021 Why Do Children Kill Children? Today we see more and more school psychologists and various psychological practices for children and adolescents appear both in our country and abroad. However,…
May 16, 2021 Why Does the Priest Use a Trikirion during Paschal Liturgy? The question refers mainly to the Archbishop’s service. Among the objects used by the celebrant bishop during the service are candlesticks of a particular…
May 10, 2021 Cremation and Non-Orthodox Family Question: “A lot of Orthodox are converts to the faith. Inevitably, we will have situations within the family that would seem to be at…
May 5, 2021 Does Hades still Exist? Q: I recently heard a priest who said that hades no longer exists, because in our hymns, we say that Christ destroyed hades by…
April 23, 2021 Standing for Hours at the Lenten Services Exhausts Me So Much that I Can no Longer Think Straight. Is Anything Wrong with Me? Different degrees of the described state are familiar to everyone. Moreover, well-known and authoritative clergymen did not hesitate to describe similar experiences in their…
April 16, 2021 How Much Black Should Be Worn during Church Worship? How might Newton have influenced the liturgical tradition of the Church? The answer is not the apple. It was not the fall of the…
April 15, 2021 “What If an Unconfessed Sin Comes to Mind when I Come to the Chalice after Confession?” The long-term practice of obligatory confession established in our church, besides the obvious advantages, has led many people to view confession not as an…
April 13, 2021 Omens, Signs and Dark Periods in Our Lives — Is There a Connection? Listen to this article Throughout human history, people have been looking to omens and indications from God and asking for them. Why? When we…
April 6, 2021 “Add Evil to the Glorious of This World” — What Are We Praying for during the Lent? The Great Lent changes the regular course of a believer’s prayer life. Distinct Lenten prayer and worship direct our minds and hearts towards a…
