March 26, 2019 Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony and What It Leads Us to C.S. Lewis, in his book Screwtape Letters, Chapter XVII, imagined a senior devil writing to a junior devil about how to tempt a certain Englishman: “One of our…
March 26, 2019 On Breaking and Cutting the Bread, or Why Did the Knife Appear? The knife has been used for cutting the Bread for a long time. Priests in Constantinople started to use it in the early 8th…
March 25, 2019 Annunciation: the Challenge of Rejecting our Self-Interest In both Eastern and Western liturgical traditions, March 25th marks a special event in the life of Jesus Christ: His conception in the womb…
March 25, 2019 Spiritual Readings for Great Lent Lent seems like a long time at the beginning, but it can pass you by quickly, if you don’t make a point of…
March 25, 2019 Convent’s Fathers Say: “Find Yourself and Find Your Own Way to Serve God” By Fr. Sergius Nezhbort Sometimes we have to embrace the reality and accept the circumstances of our lives as they are. It doesn’t mean…
March 24, 2019 “The Light of God’s Love”: Fr. Andrey Lemeshonok on His Spiritual Father Word of the Spiritual Father of St Elisabeth Convent. When I first visited Father Nicholas on Zalita Island, he was celebrating a liturgy. The…
March 24, 2019 “Every One of Us Must Carry that Light!” The Bible tells us that Holy Prophet Moses shone like the sun after his conversation with God. He had to cover his face to…
March 24, 2019 St. Gregory Palamas: 9 Facts about the Originator of the Tabor Light Teaching We commemorate the great theologian and monk Saint Gregory Palamas on the second Sunday of the Great Lent. When we mention the name of this saint…
March 22, 2019 When and Why Did The Tradition of Giving Communion on a Spoon Arise? Archimandrite Alypius (Svetlichny) on the history and symbolism of liturgical utensils. What Vessels and Diskoses Were Used for the Eucharist After the Edict of…
March 22, 2019 The Jesus Prayer for the Beginners One of the most important prayers in the Orthodox Tradition is the “Jesus Prayer.” It is not long or complicated, simply, “Lord Jesus…
March 22, 2019 Miraculous Salvation of Metropolitan Joseph by the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste We would like to present to our readers a story of the ever-memorable Metropolitan Joseph (Chernov; 1893–1975) about how he one day nearly died…
March 21, 2019 – “What’s Your Father’s Name?” – “The Satan!” A priest was walking down the street and met a five- or six-year-old boy. The boy was barefoot with soiled legs, disheveled hair, and…
