March 23, 2018 Annunciation and the Call to Life-in-Death The Annunciation, linked with the Cross, is a flat out rejection of this Darwinian way of thinking. When I affirm that my life is…
March 22, 2018 How Fasting Helps Us with Prayer Like many other “second-order” virtues, fasting is spiritually beneficial principally because of what it enables us to do, or learn, or achieve, rather than…
March 20, 2018 Why Do Orthodox Men Love Their Church? Many men may not love church, but Orthodox men do. Frederica Matthewes-Green asks them why. In a time when churches of every…
March 20, 2018 Our Faces To Beam with Light As a Result of Great Lent We are accustomed to being guided solely by our personal experience. We do not have the courage to speak about the struggle and the…
March 19, 2018 An Icon Based on a Book: The Ladder of Divine Ascent in Iconography “One can climb – at once – to the 30th step by practicing humility and love. Because, love and humility surpass any virtue”. (Metropolitan…
March 19, 2018 About the Most Terrible Inabstinence of Great Lent If we understand Great Lent as the abstinence from lack of love, and not just from butter, then it will be a bright fast…
March 16, 2018 Great Lent Through the Eyes of the Old Testament Great Lent, my beloved brethren, begins today and will be completed in forty days on the Friday of Lazarus. As our Church introduces us…
March 16, 2018 Reader Services: When One Is Unable to Attend Church Services Excerpted from “The Typicon of the Orthodox Church’s Divine Services: The Orthodox Christian and the Church Situation Today”. …Archbishop Averky of Holy Trinity Monastery at…
March 15, 2018 “The Lord Wants Every Person to Be Saved and Knocks at Everyone’s Heart” Dear Mother Abbess, fathers, brothers and sisters! First of all, I would like to congratulate you all with the feast day, for today…
March 15, 2018 “Church Music Opens Up Gradually”: an Interview with Eugene Prokofiev, the Precentor of the Brothers’ Choir of St. Elisabeth Convent We met with Eugene Prokofiev, the young precentor of the Brothers’ Choir of St. Elisabeth Convent before their performance at the Lenten Concerts. Eugene…
March 14, 2018 Q&A with a Priest: How Should Breastfeeding Mothers Fast? Archpriest Andrew Lemeshonok, the spiritualfather of St. Elisabeth Convent, answers various questions of the parishioners. How Should Breastfeeding Mothers Fast? Can Toddlers Do…
March 13, 2018 The Meaning of Various Inscriptions on the Orthodox Cross The Third Sunday, and mid-point, of Lent celebrates the Holy Cross. In Orthodoxy the cross has always been a symbol of great victory and…
