June 4, 2019 Patron Saint’s Day at the Men’s Rehabilitation Center The festive liturgy was served at the church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “The Inexhaustible Chalice”. On that day…
June 3, 2019 Consumerist Attitude: How We Misunderstand What We Believe in Why are men so preoccupied with heaven and hell? Especially, hell? Why are so few preoccupied with Jesus? They have some incoherent notion of…
June 3, 2019 Fr. Philip LeMasters: “We Must Obey in Order to See!” Christ is Risen! Seeing is believing. There are many things in life that we will not accept unless we see them with our own…
June 3, 2019 Particles of Relics of Holy New Martyrs Grand Princess Elisabeth and Nun Barbara Brought to Minsk from New York A reliquary containing the right arm of the Holy New Martyr Grand Princess Elisabeth and a particle of the relics of Nun Barbara will…
June 2, 2019 “Your Joy No Man Taketh From You”: How Are We to Feel Joy of Resurrection in This Cruel World? On Easter Eve, I congratulated all readers of my blog on the Resurrection of Christ. I wrote, “Every year of our God-given life, the…
June 2, 2019 Obedience to the Church: Is It Necessary? Question: “Is an Orthodox Christian obliged to follow all that the Church teaches, or is there some leeway that is left to individual choice?”…
June 2, 2019 “Love Trumps Death!”: a Word of the Spiritual Father of St. Elisabeth Convent Word of the Spiritual Father of St Elisabeth Convent: Hell is a lonely place where there shall be no God – ever. It’s a…
May 31, 2019 Stop Saying “Glory to God for All Things!”: a Personal Story of a Hardened Atheist A testimony offered by Hieromonk Synesios: “A few years ago, I was the parish priest of St. Vasileios church (Piraeus) and was called to…
May 31, 2019 How Reason and Logic Become the Important Elements of Our Spiritual life I was trained as an engineer so I have an orientation to viewing things from a logical and scientific perspective. But this view…
May 31, 2019 Why Do the Orthodox Baptize Infants? To baptize children or not is a question many Christians ask. The Orthodox are frequently criticized for baptizing children. There are lots of Christian…
May 30, 2019 Sign of the Cross: How Is It Made by Different Denominations? Many Christians denominations practice making the sign of the cross. How is it made and how do they explain it? Orthodox Church. The Orthodox…
May 30, 2019 Is the Kingdom of Heaven Really Within You? In Scripture Jesus tells us “The Kingdom of God is within you.” (Luke 17:21) How do we know this? We know it when…
