February 11, 2019 “If Anyone Comes to Me and Does not Hate His Father”: Are We Really Called to Hate? Do you hate your father? Do you hate your mother? Christ says: “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and…
February 11, 2019 “The Mindless Hearts”: a Personal Encounter with the Boarding Home for Adults with Special Needs How do you meet someone who is able to shift your views and opinions radically – someone who can change the angle, the breadth…
February 11, 2019 Q&A: What Orthodox Names Can I Name My Children? There’s no list of what are and aren’t Orthodox first names, at least not in the Canons of the Church. However it is a…
February 10, 2019 “I Take Your Sin On Myself”: What All-Forgiving Love Means There are testimonies of all-forgiving love of the great abbot of Optina Pustyn Monastery towards weak brothers and members of clergy who would sometimes…
February 9, 2019 9 Main Principles of the Modern Missionary Work in Orthodoxy I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. (John 4:35). The Holy Orthodox…
February 8, 2019 Spiritual Father’s Advice: “How Do I Deal with Non-Christian Colleagues?” Are Affirmations Sinful? Q: Dear Father Andrew, I’d like to know if affirmations (i.e., short statements containing a verbal formula, which is repeated multiple times…
February 8, 2019 The Burden of Decisions: Helping our Teenagers to Navigate in Their Life Over the past several decades the external pressures and challenges associated with parenting teenagers have been varied. Whether it was the introduction of rock…
February 8, 2019 How Christians Should Use Their Free Time in Terms of Modern World Most probably the inventors of the internet‚ which modestly started as a small information sharing network‚ did not hope‚ even in their wildest dreams‚…
February 7, 2019 An Orthodox Response to the Abortion Tragedy Happened in New York This Homily was given at a Baptismal Divine Liturgy on the Sunday after Sanctity of Life Sunday (2019), after the State of New…
February 7, 2019 Why Does Orthodox Church not Use Musical Instruments? A reader of our blog has asked us recently in the comments to the post concerning musical instruments in the Bible (see the mentioned…
February 7, 2019 British Photographer Alys Tomlinson and Cinematographer Marie-Cecile Embleton Make a Film About Our Convent Alys Tomlinson is a photographer from London and the author of Ex-Voto Project dedicated to expressions of gratitude to God that can be seen…
February 6, 2019 The Divine Liturgy: The Facts that You Didn’t Know The Divine Liturgy is the most important divine office. There are countless articles and books describing it. In the same way that the Liturgy…
