April 26, 2018 Over 1000 Children Baptized by Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia The Georgian people have again expressed their great love of and trust in His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia, bringing more than 1,000…
April 26, 2018 St. Luke of Crimea on the Importance of Gratitude The root of ingratitude is human’s greediness: no matter how much a person gets, it is not enough for him, he does not thank…
April 26, 2018 A Look at Pascha as a Way to Counter Today’s Cultural Denial of Death In recent months I have come to the conclusion that the best place to understand the significance of Pascha is in a cancer ward,…
April 26, 2018 The Importance of Attending Church Cycles of Services in Orthodoxy Nothing is so spiritually uplifting, and so rewarding then prayer before God in the Church. The Orthodox Church has a cycle of services, and…
April 25, 2018 Can I Eat Meat After Holy Communion? Question: Is it permitted to eat meat on the day I have partaken of the Holy Communion? Answer: First of all, let us…
April 25, 2018 A Resurrection Icon of Christ with Additional Scenes In the tomb with the body, in hell with the soul as God, in paradise with the thief and on the throne with the…
April 25, 2018 Reclamation and Redemption at the Men’s Farmstead of St. Elisabeth Convent Although I spent two years in seminary—and thus, in church services with a lot of men—I wasn’t prepared for the demographics inside the church…
April 24, 2018 Understanding Three Central Activities of the Orthodox Church through Holy Scripture During one of our Wednesday morning Bible studies, our group tackled the famous verse John 3:16, which reads: “For God so loved the world…
April 23, 2018 A Quiet Apocalypse The sound of the world around us generally qualifies as little more than noise. Almost nothing advertises itself as unimportant or something to be…
April 20, 2018 Iconography of the Myrrh-bearing Women The Gospel episode about the appearance of an angel to the women near the Lord’s Tomb, which shows the first evidence of the Lord’s…
April 19, 2018 Metaphorical References to the Holy Eucharist from Early Liturgical Texts Speaking of the Holy Eucharist, the Fathers and early liturgical texts of the Church have recourse to the metaphor of the flaming coal (anthrax,…
April 17, 2018 Pastoral Advice on Holy Communion during the Holy and Bright Week To partake of Holy Communion and to confess in the right way means to do this with the fear of God and humility in…
