December 4, 2018 Children Ask about Church Life There are dozens of children’s questions concerning prayer, icons, and church worship… in general, everything related to life in the Church. We’ve collected…
December 4, 2018 Sisters of St. Elisabeth Convent at Christmas Market in New York New York greets Sisters from St Elisabeth Convent! As we continue our work supporting the Boarding Home for children with special needs,…
December 3, 2018 Shifting Our Focus: the Reason We Should Fast before the Feast of the Nativity On November 28th we begin the Nativity Fast. We fast before the Great Feast of the Nativity in order to prepare ourselves…
December 3, 2018 Q&A with a Priest: What Does It Mean to Be a Priest’s Wife? Question: Your blessing, Father. What should I do: my husband has become a priest but I’m not the right kind of a person to…
December 3, 2018 St. Theophan the Recluse on the Further Coming of Jesus Christ Having said that the Son of man shall come like the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto…
December 2, 2018 What Was the Fruit That Adam and Eve Ate? And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the…
December 2, 2018 “Mystical Supper” Album: Orthodox Liturgy Sung in the Language of Shakespeare The current album of liturgical chants in English language was recorded by the joint efforts of the Festive choir and the Monastic choir of…
December 2, 2018 The Question of Our Sins Commited before Baptism Question: I was Baptized five years ago. I have never been to Confession. I want to confess during the Great Fast. Is it necessary…
November 30, 2018 The Moment We Were First Called A homily for the Apostle Andrew, the Holy and All-Praised First Called (commemorated on November 30). Walking through this dark, cold morning, did…
November 30, 2018 Foretypes of Nativity: What Did Prophets Say about the Coming of the Savior? “The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them…
November 30, 2018 Christmas Memories from the Catalog of Good Deeds: “It Was in a Baptist Church that I First Learned about Christmas” Dear friends! The Catalog of Good Deeds team starts a new series of personal stories devoted to the Feast of the Nativity. Our brothers…
November 29, 2018 How Advent and Christmas Are Losing Their Sense in the Modern World So… they’ve taken Christmas out of Christmas and put it in Advent, and they’ve taken Christ out of Advent, except it’s not really Advent…
