October 2, 2017 Praying to the Guardian Angel: Whom Christ loves, His Angels Love Too! It is a wonderful truth that the Angels in Heaven love our children – indeed, all children – and we can take great comfort…
October 2, 2017 10 Ways That Can Set Children Up for Moral Failure: An Orthodox Christian Perspective Life gets busy and we don’t step back enough to see what we might be doing as parents to hurt our children’s spiritual growth….
October 2, 2017 A Interview with a Priest Concerning Relics and Their Fragmentation The bringing of the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker from Italy to Russia triggered much discussion about the veneration of holy relics and…
September 29, 2017 A Short Video of the Liturgy on the Nativity Of Theotokos in St. Elisabeth Convent
September 29, 2017 Christian Athletics: The Struggle for the Kingdom The classic image of the Christian as an athlete of Christ is a little overplayed nowadays, in a culture obsessed with sports. I personally…
September 28, 2017 Godparenting 101: The Beginner’s Guide to Godparenting It is a known practice in the Orthodox Church that every person, child or adult, should have a godparent (sponsor) at the time that…
September 27, 2017 Is the Cross a Symbol of Death? Question: Is the Cross a symbol of death? An answer by Hieromonk Job (Gumerov): We refer to the Cross as life giving, because…
September 27, 2017 Why Does The Orthodox Church Have So Many Rituals? Do we really need church rituals, given that Jesus did not celebrate Liturgy and did not make the sign of the cross? Sergey Khudiev…
September 26, 2017 Life in a Sacramental World At the ordination of a priest, the consecrated Body of Christ is placed in his hands. He is told to “Guard this!” until the…
September 25, 2017 The Question of Long Hair in Orthodox Christianity Question: How do you reconcile the Orthodox practice of clergy and monastics not cutting their hair with 1st Corinthians 11:14, which says: “Does not…
September 25, 2017 The Story of the Icon of the Mother of God of Boyany The icon was painted in 1991 for the iconostasis of one of the local churches in honor of the Nativity of the Mother of…
September 22, 2017 Saints Joachim and Anna as an Example of Chastity in Family Life by St. John of Damascus Anna was to be the mother of the Virgin Mother of God, and hence nature did not dare to anticipate the flowering of…
