May 6, 2019 How Can We Possibly Love Everyone? We are instructed by Christ to love our neighbors as ourselves, and even to love our enemies. There are always individuals who come into…
May 5, 2019 Living through the Feast of Feasts: the Paschal Reflections of the Catalog of Good Deeds Team Christ is Risen! With the coming of Great and Holy Pascha, the time of Great Lent is over comes to its end, too. We…
May 5, 2019 Orthodox Christianity: a Religion of Rules or Love? One of the things that newcomers quickly learn about the Orthodox Church is that it is a Church with various rules. Everyone who…
May 4, 2019 The Origins of the Bright Week and the Mystagogical Catechism for the First Christians It is Bright Week now. We continue to celebrate Easter during these seven happy days. Why is this week called Bright? How did the…
May 3, 2019 Spiritual Advice on Fighting against Your Anger How to root out Anger? 1. Pull back and think about it. The fathers speak of anger as a failure of rationality. Recall the causes of anger…
May 3, 2019 Top 10 Biblical Archaeology Discoveries Since 1945. Part One 1. Dead Sea Scrolls The initial seven well-preserved manuscripts were discovered by several Bedouin shepherds and then subjected to scholarly research in 1947. In…
May 2, 2019 Doubt: How It Becomes the Driving Force in Our Spiritual Life Sergey Averintsev wrote a wonderful poem about Apostle Thomas. He addresses Christ on behalf of the Apostle, asking him to show his wounds. The Apostle…
May 2, 2019 How Tornado Changed Its Direction in front of St. Matrona Chapel A tornado above the river Dnieper near the village of Volosskoye was formed in the afternoon of June 26. According to the eyewitnesses’ evidence,…
May 1, 2019 The Best Way to Preserve Your Paschal Joy This day has come! The solemn exclamation Christ is risen! has broken the silence of the spring night and filled our hearts with joy….
May 1, 2019 Is Raising Hands Allowed during the Divine Liturgy? Question: Is it proper for laymen to raise their hands in prayer during the consecration of the Eucharist and the Lord’s Prayer? Answer:…
April 30, 2019 “A Great Tumpet Will Be Blown”: What Does It Mean and Why Trumpet? From the prophecies of Isaiah: “It will come about also in that day that a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were…
April 30, 2019 Some Words about the Paschal Mystery of the Holy Fire The so-called “Holy Fire” is the name given to the fire that appears on ends of the candles of the Patriarch of Jerusalem and…
