June 13, 2020 May an Orthodox Christian Celebrate Their Birthday? “It would be good to say a prayer to the Lord on your birthday. You should not just read it, but feel it” Bishop…
June 12, 2020 “Seven Times Shall He Rise Again” “So the Lord said to Joshua, ‘Rise up! Why is it that you have fallen on your face?’” (Jos 7:10) A man asked a…
June 12, 2020 The Desire For a Woman: Someone Else’s Wife vs. Your Own Wife Matthew 5:27-32 The apostle Paul continues to unravel the connection between the knowledge of God and morality. We find that after the coming of…
June 11, 2020 15 Quotations from Saint Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) Physical fast helps us to repent and be saved, because, as we have already seen, gluttony is the mother of all other passions and…
June 11, 2020 Why Do We Need Inscriptions On Frescoes and Icons? Text in church art provides a sacred passport of the image. If there is an inscription, there is an icon. If there is no…
June 10, 2020 Unknown Fact about a Known Icon According to some estimates, the number of venerated icons of the Blessed Virgin Mary is about seven hundred, many of them wonderworking – that…
June 9, 2020 Do We Need Monogamy in Today’s World? Myth Monogamy is outdated. Religious demands for loyalty made sense when there were no effective remedies for unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, and…
June 9, 2020 Pentecost: The Most Dangerous Time of All People often tell me how beautiful the Lenten and Pascha services are. I’ve never once heard anybody say, “O Father, I so much enjoyed…
June 8, 2020 The Oak of Mamre: Beginning Of The Revelation The episode at the oak of Mamre, recorded in Genesis 18, is one of the strangest and most mysterious in the scriptures. It has…
June 8, 2020 Don’t Put Pressure On Your Child All who go to church must be in love with Christ so that others can notice it. Do we not say: “Love cannot be…
June 7, 2020 The Cosmic Meaning of Icon Pentecost is a feast that encompasses all creation. After the Liturgy, there is a Vespers at which the genuflect prayers are recited. They are…
June 7, 2020 Simply Dying for Christ: On Pentecost Every great feast in the Orthodox Church witnesses directly and unequivocally to a miracle. The Day of the Holy Trinity witnesses to the miracle…
