March 19, 2018 466 0 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 48 0 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 28 0 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 183 0 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 54 0 “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 32 0 “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 826 2 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 5986 2 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…
March 13, 2018 2912 3 Patriarch Tikhon’s 1918 Letter to Lenin Patriarch Tikhon was head of the Russian church during the revolution, and courageously condemned what he saw as a demonic attack on a Christian…
March 13, 2018 192 0 The Wonder-Working Lydda Icon According to Tradition, the Apostles Peter and John were preaching in Lydda (later called Diospolis) near Jerusalem. There they built a church dedicated to…