August 22, 2019 Practical Tips: the Most Powerful Prayer and Fast for Travelers Our body lives by eating food. Similarly, our souls consume information coming from the senses. There can be not only physical but also informational…
August 21, 2019 Caressing the Head of a Murderer: a Story of True Love We live in two different worlds at the same time. When we come to the Church to work and worship our Lord, we enter into…
August 21, 2019 What Do We Expect Heaven to Be Like? What an exciting Question! I was once with a 15- year-old boy who was dying in the middle of the night after a long…
August 21, 2019 Why Aren’t Women Allowed In The Altar? Why do priests keep women out of the altar? Why are there places in the church that are forbidden for women? Is a woman…
August 20, 2019 The Icon of Sophia, the Wisdom of God (of Kiev) There are a number of icons depicting Sophia, the Wisdom of God, in the Russian Orthodox Church, namely, in Kiev, Novgorod, Vologda, Tobolsk, Moscow,…
August 20, 2019 Should Orthodox Christians Let Their Children Associate with Unbelievers? “We have a problem: our son is friends with a boy next door. His parents are totally worldly people—they don’t go to church, they…
August 19, 2019 Why Do Farmers Bring Their Produce to Church for Consecration? Adam’s sons were the first to start bringing some of the fruit of the ground as an offering to God (Gen. 4:2-4). Since Moses, the…
August 19, 2019 The Tale of Three Sons There was once a man who had three sons. One day, the first son came to his father and said, “Dad, everyone knows you’re…
August 19, 2019 The Glory of the Divinity Hidden by the Humanity By His Transfiguration, the Lord showed His disciples how He was going to come on the last day in the glory of His Divinity…
August 18, 2019 The Narthex as a Dynamic Place of Transformation The icon of the Fest of Transfiguration‚ which we celebrate on August 6th‚ is a beautiful metaphor for the union and the reconciliation that Christ brings…
August 18, 2019 How Saints Raised Their Children There were saints who raised their own children to become saints, too. Their experience clearly confirms a favorite saying of Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of…
August 17, 2019 Elder Joseph the Hesychast: Spiritual Journey Our natural state is darkness in comparison to divine grace. How much more so when the gloomy demons approach us, which are dark by…
