March 21, 2022 St Gregory Palamas’s Doctrine of Divine Energies in Simple Terms The doctrine of the divine energies began to be developed by the fathers of the first centuries, but it was given its final shape…
March 20, 2022 Why Can’t You Just Have God in Your Soul? Why, in order to be a believer, it is necessary to adhere to some religion and to observe certain rituals? Can’t you just have…
March 19, 2022 Icon-cases Witnessing Miracles It is common to place icon in icon cases to protect the image from harmful environmental effects . Today we often hear abut icon-cases…
March 17, 2022 Where Can We Find God’s Grace? We often use this word, but do we always know what it means? How can we acquire the grace of the Holy Spirit? Can…
March 17, 2022 War through the Eyes of St Nikolaj Velimirovic Saint Nicholas of Serbia personally experienced the horrors of war. Together with the Serbian Patriarch Gabriel, he was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp…
March 16, 2022 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 47 Part 46 Father Paul Approaching the monastery, we could not even imagine that our stay there would be so warm and memorable. The descent…
March 15, 2022 He Took Tonsure at Sixteen, Spent More than 10 Years in a Prison Camp, and Was a Gifted Speaker We continue our series about the prominent elders of the Russian Orthodox Church who illuminated with the light of their righteousness the dark Godless…
March 14, 2022 Is It Necessary to Limit Marital Relations in Lent and How to Do It? Pastoral Advice The Church does prescribe limiting intimate relationships during Lent, but we need to understand that there are at least two sides to every story….
March 14, 2022 Iconoclasm and its Victims. What Happens when the Church Becomes Drawn into Politics? What made Byzantine Christians take up arms against one another in the stronghold of the Orthodox world of the eighth – early ninth centuries? …
March 12, 2022 Mythical Animals in the Bible. Who Are They Really? During Lent, many Christians over-read the Psalter and other books of Holy Scripture. The mention of dragons, unicorns, basilisks, and some other animals appearing…
March 11, 2022 Illumination in Church. Part 2 Light has unique symbolic meaning in worship and so do all the illumination tools used in church. In our previous article, we discussed candle…
March 10, 2022 The Achievements of Orthodox Priests and Monks in Science and Technology Few will dispute the significance of the Church’s contribution to European civilisation. After the fall of the ancient world, monks and priests took on…
