November 14, 2019 11 “Naïve” Questions to a Priest from a Newcomer I am forty years old. I was baptized only recently, and I have been to a confession fewer times than the number of fingers on…
November 13, 2019 Akathist to Saint Elisabeth The New Martyr Kontakion 1 Come, all ye who love Christ, and let us offer up a hymn of praise unto the martyred nun Elizabeth, who was…
November 13, 2019 Is It OK To Buy Secondhand Clothing? Do I Need to Sprinkle It With Holy Water? Of course, you may. We are not ashamed to buy a used car or an apartment in which someone lived before us, are we?…
November 12, 2019 Handmade Christmas Decorations You Have Never Seen Before Golden fall is ending, and shop windows start to be adorned with Christmas decorations. The Nativity fast is coming, as well as the Feast…
November 12, 2019 St. Paisios of Mount Athos: Injustice Gets God’s Wrath Injustice is a great sin. All sins have extenuating circumstances, but not injustice — it gets God’s wrath. How terrifying it is! Those who…
November 12, 2019 Ss. Spyridon and Nicodemus: Lessons from Their Lives (Lessons from their lives: a) labor should be combined with prayer; b) avoid idleness, and c) use three fingers when making a sign of…
November 12, 2019 On Single Eye The Lord said: “The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of…
November 12, 2019 Christmas Fairs on the British Isles 2019 Sisters of St Elisabeth Convent would like to invite you to visit our stalls at Christmas Fairs in the UK and Ireland, which will…
November 12, 2019 The Seven Deadly Sins: Envy Saint Basil the Great said it well: “There is no other passion engendered in human souls more pernicious than envy. It does less harm…
November 11, 2019 Akathist to Saint Seraphim of Sarov Kontakion 1 Our glorious God, in His infinite wisdom and inexhaustible mercy, has bestowed a holy wonderworker upon those of us struggling through these…
November 11, 2019 Why Did God Create the Tree of Knowledge? “And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the…
November 11, 2019 Top 20 Spiritual Tips by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphrius The Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Onuphrius of Kiev and All Ukraine, has turned 75 lately. Our Guardian Angel rejoices over our…
