April 27, 2021 Self-Pity: a Devil’s Trick Preventing a Person from Showing His Full Potential Nothing destroys a person like self-pity. We have all experienced this feeling in one way or another. It instigates depression, inhibits development, makes a…
April 26, 2021 “He Made a Man Out of Me “ From the Memories of Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain: “There once was a brother in our monastery; a carpenter by trade, whose name…
April 26, 2021 Monastic Tonsure: Second Baptism, or the Marriage of the Soul to Christ Speaking of the holy sacraments, I want to say something about the sacrament of tonsure. Is monastic tonsure a sacrament? Of course it’s a…
April 25, 2021 Palm Sunday: Where are You in the Crowd? Come away with me; let us leave our world and travel back together to the first Palm Sunday in the first century. Stepping out…
April 24, 2021 It is Not the Palm or Willow Branches That Are Consecrated, but the Christian holding Them “Many people celebrate holidays and know these holidays’ names. Often they do it without knowing the reasons why they are established” (St John Chrysostom)….
April 23, 2021 Standing for Hours at the Lenten Services Exhausts Me So Much that I Can no Longer Think Straight. Is Anything Wrong with Me? Different degrees of the described state are familiar to everyone. Moreover, well-known and authoritative clergymen did not hesitate to describe similar experiences in their…
April 23, 2021 Some Facts about the Liturgical and Church Life of Coptic Christians A primer on the liturgical and church life of Coptic Christians, prepared for the visit of a group of monastics of the Ukrainian Orthodox…
April 22, 2021 St Kassia and Her Creations, Still Heard at Today’s Divine Services The personality of Kassia the Hymnographer is relatively unknown, but the stichera and irmoi written by her are familiar to every church person attending…
April 22, 2021 The Royal Isographers — Who Were These People, and What Did They Do? We asked this question to Dmitry Trofimov, director of the visual arts workshops “Tsargrad” The royal isographers were the icon copiers or icon painters…
April 21, 2021 From Harlots to Saints: Imitating St. Mary of Egypt Last Sunday we celebrated the week of St. Mary of Egypt, recalling her life as a vivid example of the depth of repentance. But…
April 21, 2021 Where Has the African Church Gone? The disappearance of the church in northwestern Africa (the Roman province called Africa Proconsularis) during the Arab conquests of the late 7th – early…
April 21, 2021 Finding Freedom This week of Great Lent, the Church celebrates the memory of St. Mary of Egypt. The story of St. Mary is the story of…
