October 23, 2018 A Visit to the Not Indifferent Ones: a Personal Story about the First Meeting with Special Children Sometimes they only need physical contact. They are excited every time you touch or hug them. The feeling of having someone around makes them…
October 22, 2018 Parable of the Day: The Fed Up Sparrow A thunderstorm was over. There was a rainbow over the fields. A sparrow said: “I’m fed up with being colorless and…
October 22, 2018 What Do Charcoal and Christians Have in Common? Everything I know about fire I learned from being an Altar Server. Fire is hot, it can burn you, and boy it can be…
October 22, 2018 Q&A with a Priest: What If Doctors Say We Can’t Have Children? Question: Father Andrew, please tell us what to do. We’re married for more than two years now, and we had a church wedding. We’ve found out…
October 21, 2018 Veneration of Icons in the Early Church – Could It Be Possible? Question: “Isn’t the fact that there were controversies over icons well into the 9th century proof that the early Church did not venerate icons?”…
October 21, 2018 Who Is Satan? The Holy Fathers Explain Humor: once there was a poor young couple, and the husband served as a minister. He complained to his wife for breaking her promise…
October 21, 2018 What Is the ‘Fervor’ Used during the Liturgy? Fervor is boiling water, which is poured into the Chalice after the transmutation of the Holy Gifts. The boiling water is poured into the…
October 19, 2018 “You Simply Have to Love”: a Short Review on the Most Popular Album of St. Elisabeth Convent’s Choirs Nun Juliania, a choral conductor and Church composer, is well-known both in her home country Belarus and abroad. In the past years Nun Juliania’s…
October 19, 2018 “Infancy Gospel of Thomas”: Could Apostle Thomas in Fact Be the Author of This Apocrypha? Many people, especially those who are far from the Church and its many-sided life often blam the Church of Christ for the fact that…
October 19, 2018 Three Personal Stories about God’s Providence in Our Lives Life-Saving Splinter When Archimandrite Pavel Gruzdev was in a prison camp, he made it his duty to get up an hour before the…
October 18, 2018 Parable of the Day: The Court Attendants of the Lord At that time, Father Nazarius from Valaam Monastery arrived in St Petersburg. He knew the poor nobleman and came to comfort him. The nobleman’s…
October 18, 2018 Does the Sacrament of Unction Purify All Our Sins? Question: How true is it that, at the celebration of the Mystery of Unction, forgotten sins are forgiven? I hear this in every sermon on…
