April 28, 2020 Radonitsa. Why Did Christ Not Do Away With Physical Death? One week after Easter, the words “Christ is risen – He is Risen, indeed” still reverberate in our ears. People usually go to the…
April 26, 2020 The Good Unbelief of Thomas In one of its hymns, our Church calls the unbelief of Thomas “good”. Understandably one would wonder – is there good and bad unbelief?…
April 26, 2020 Connection Between the Icon and the Liturgy A museum is not the right place for the icon. The icon loses much of its meaning outside the church and liturgical space, because…
April 25, 2020 The Arian Prince Becomes Orthodox and Perishes on Pascha The Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church established the Feast of the Synaxis of Spanish and Portuguese Saints on December 28, 2018. The memory…
April 25, 2020 Descent into Hell: Where Is It in Scripture? Question: Where in Scripture can one find verses that the Savior brought up from hell all the righteous and repentant? Answer: About the Savior’s…
April 24, 2020 The Great and Holy Feast of Pascha at St. Elisabeth Convent The feast of feasts, the solemnity of solemnities! See how it was celebrated at our convent this year in the photo blog:
April 24, 2020 Why Is Easter Gospel Reading Not Related to Resurrection? The Prologue to the Gospel of John is read during the Easter Liturgy. It is a wonderful and theologically deep passage, but why is…
April 24, 2020 Questions You’ve Always Intended to Ask about Orthodox Worship but Never Got Around to It I originally intended this to be a short introduction to a new series on the Divine Liturgy, but somehow it got out of control,…
April 23, 2020 Iconography of the Descent of Jesus Christ into Hell The usual iconography of the Resurrection is actually a scene of the Descent of Jesus Christ into hell, which, according to tradition, took place…
April 23, 2020 How Should One Understand the Words “In the Beginning Was the Word”? Question: How should one understand the words “In the beginning was the Word”? Answer: In the first verse of the fourth Gospel, of the…
April 22, 2020 About Witnesses and False Witnesses Christ is risen! The gospel today speaks of the first disciples of the Lord, and the book of the Acts tells how they first…
April 22, 2020 The Prospects of Living Without Church: Online Confession and Communion as in the 4th Century A fragment of a conversation with Archbishop Theodosius (Snigiryov) of Boyarka, suffragan bishop under Metropolitan Onuphrius of Kiev and All Ukraine. In view of…
