March 28, 2019 Theotokos of the Sign: the Explanation of the Icon This is the icon most likely to confront any visitor to an Orthodox church or cathedral, as it is usually present in the upper…
March 28, 2019 On the Sharp Question of Female Priesthood Extract from “Orthodoxy and Western Christianity. Contemporary Protestantism. On Female Priesthood.” The issue of ordination of women arises from the Protestant attitude to priesthood…
March 27, 2019 “The Uncomfortable Book”: How Classical Literature Helps in Understanding Our Faith Thus, though exiled to the earth, we ascend to the heaven by love… – Valery Bryusov Apart from the works of spiritual literature, it…
March 27, 2019 On Finding Time for God, for Yourself and for Others during Great Lent As I prepared for my first confession some years ago, I was given a rubric that I still follow. It asks me to reflect…
March 27, 2019 Why Orthodoxy Is not a Religion According to Fr. Alexander Schmemann, Orthodox Christianity is not a religion. In his For the Life of the World, he wrote, “Christianity is in a…
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…
