March 2, 2020 Two Reasons Priests Love the Rite of Forgiveness On this, the first day of Great Lent, I ask your forgiveness for all I have done, both in ignorance and intention, to harm…
March 1, 2020 The Break in the Chain of Sin There is a phenomenon in spiritual life, known as the chain of sin in Orthodox ascetic tradition. Adultery gives birth to hypocrisy and lies,…
March 1, 2020 Say “I’m sorry” Even to the Departed Here it is in a nutshell: If you hesitate to come to Forgiveness Vespers this Sunday because someone you are mad at might be there…
February 29, 2020 Example of a Bible Scribe Error The Bible is the Word of God. It enjoys unquestionable authority for all Christians and is the main source of Christian teaching. However, being…
February 29, 2020 Saint Nikolai Velimirovich Explains the Sixth Commandment If you break a clay pot on the market, the potter will become furious and demand compensation. In truth, man is also made of…
February 28, 2020 He Combated Demons and Performed Miraculous Healings This venerable holy father is not renown due to his scholarly activities, teaching or preaching, or his high position in the Church, but for…
February 28, 2020 Disciplina Arcani You may sometimes hear that in the times of the Primitive Church there was a secret doctrine that was not available to all members….
February 27, 2020 “There Was Such a Choice: Either the Death of a Mother, Or the Death of a Child” – the Story of a Priest About Hopelessness and About a Miracle It happened a few years ago. In the evening after the service, about seven o’clock, I was walking from the altar to the exit…
February 27, 2020 Children and the Lent When I was a child, the beginning of the Lent was marked by our going to our village church, where we changed white towels…
February 26, 2020 Sister Joanna (Reitlinger) One of the last icons painted by Sister Joanna (Julia Reitlinger) was The Walking on Waters, and her whole life was, in fact, such…
February 25, 2020 What Did St. Ephrem the Syrian, the Author of the Most Famous Repentant Prayer, Repent of? All Orthodox Christians know Saint Ephrem the Syrian as an outstanding ascetic and one of the most authoritative interpreters of the Holy Scriptures in…
February 25, 2020 Where Does the Practice of Processions in Times of Public Disasters Come From? Whenever we face any public calamity, such as drought, or flood, or hail, which devastates our fields by God’s permission; or fires, or mudslides,…
