March 28, 2018 Prince Vladimir Youth Association is Joining Ministry Efforts with St. Elisabeth Convent to help children with Special Needs This year The Prince Vladimir Youth Association is hosting the 3rd “School piggy bank” program to help the St. Elisabeth special needs orphanage in…
March 27, 2018 Reflecting on Orthodoxy and Today’s Culture What is the aim of life (death)? For Orthodox Christians it is salvation and eternal life with God. How are we saved? Paul tells…
March 26, 2018 3 Answers from Father Andrew: Is Great Lent Really to Blame for All Our Misfortunes? Archpriest Andrew Lemeshonok, the spiritual father of St. Elisabeth Convent, answers various questions of the parishioners. -Have you ever met people whose repentance was…
March 26, 2018 An Interview with a US Orthodox Priest, Who Moved with His Wife and 8 Children to Russia This is a translation, exclusively for Russian Faith, of an interview which appeared in Today, a Russian news site, with Father Joseph Gleason, an…
March 26, 2018 Why Do Seminarians Wear the Cassock? Question: Why do seminarians wear the cassock? Answer: Seminaries are a relatively recent thing in Church history. The first seminaries were established in…
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…
