February 11, 2020 Why Do Some Saints Have Square Halos? Indeed, we can see such images of saints, mainly of the Byzantine period, on the walls of ancient temples. Standing or kneeling figures with…
February 11, 2020 “I Was Offended and Decided to Leave the Temple Without Getting Baptized” – The Story of An Artist Who Painted More Than Fifty Paintings About St. Xenia of Petersburg One day, my life started to remind me of a broken record. One more spin, and it’s the same. It’s like you exist in…
February 11, 2020 The Marks of the Church: the Church as Apostolic We come at last to the final adjective in the Creed’s description of the Church: apostolic. The word “apostolic” comes from the Greek word apostello,…
February 10, 2020 The Icon of the Mother of God Assuage My Sorrows This image got its name after the lines from the following sticheron dedicated to the Mother of God, “Assuage the sickness of my greatly…
February 10, 2020 15 Drawings of the Life of Saint Xenia of Petersburg Drawings by Alexander Prostev. Source: https://foma.ru/15-kartin-iz-zhizni-svyatoy-ksenii-peterburgskoy.html
February 9, 2020 Fasting Twice a Week: Why the Orthodox Adopted Things Christ Condemned Question: “Christ gave a parable about the Pharisee and how he fasts twice a week (Luke 18:12). Why did the Orthodox adopt things Christ…
February 9, 2020 The Publican and Me One of the lessons of the Gospel Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee (Luke 18:10-14) is that humility is a virtue needed as…
February 8, 2020 Did the Apostle Paul Write the Epistle to the Hebrews? The reader at church normally announces, “Reading of the Epistle of the Holy Apostle Paul to the Hebrews” before reading this Epistle at the…
February 8, 2020 Saint Paisios of Mount Athos on Why Cancer Is So Widespread What People Have Achieved Today Culture is good, but in order for it to be useful, the soul must also be “cultivated”. Otherwise, culture…
February 7, 2020 Archpriest Andrew Lemeshonok: “We Must Learn to Say No to Sin!” We need to learn to say no to sin. If we start to doubt, we’ve already lost the battle. When one cuts off the…
February 7, 2020 The Meeting of the Bishop before the Liturgy The meeting of the bishop does not happen very often in the life of any parish, and there are some remote parishes that have…
February 6, 2020 15 Quotes of Guidance from Saint Anthony the Great 1. If we make every effort to avoid death of the body, still more should it be our endeavor to avoid death of the…
