January 15, 2021 Filioque in Brief We were recently asked the following question: “Why is it so wrong to say that the Spirit also proceeds from the Son, if He…
January 15, 2021 St. Seraphim and the Storms: “Struggle Continues Weather We Like It or Not” At the highpoint of the storm this week, I went into the house and divested myself of raingear. From where I sat in the…
January 14, 2021 A Smile that Warms Hearts. Bethlehem Icon of the Mother of God The icons of the Most Holy Theotokos have always been revered by the Orthodox Christians with particular ardency. There are many different images of…
January 14, 2021 The Meaning of Circumcision in the Old Testament and the Circumcision of Christ Luke 2: 20-21 Colossians 2: 8-12 The full life of a Christian begins with the baptism. In the church of the Old Testament, circumcision…
January 13, 2021 The Martyrs of Lyon In 2017, the Russian Orthodox calendar was replenished with a group of saints who struggled in the cause of God in Gaul and other…
January 13, 2021 The History and Tradition of Nativity Scenes The beautiful tradition of putting up a nativity scene on Christmas exists in many homes. Nativity scenes are models of the Bethlehem cave, and…
January 12, 2021 Joseph the Betrothed + James the Brother + The Family of Jesus Joseph the Betrothed of the Virgin Mary Don’t believe those Christmas card pictures with Joseph as a handsome young guy. Earliest tradition says Joseph…
January 12, 2021 Why Do Members of the Clergy Wear a Beard? If you asked a person in the street to describe an Orthodox priest, they would almost certainly mention the beard, even though they might…
January 12, 2021 Grigory Zhuravlev — the Unknown Russian Nick Vujicic Think of a man without arms and legs, living a full-fledged creative life. For most people this is our contemporary Nick Vujicic, an Australian…
January 11, 2021 Why Did the Son of God Appear in a Humbled State? In the ways of Divine Providence, the Lord God found a means of revealing Himself to people so that the fire of His Divinity…
January 10, 2021 Dimitri Kuntsevich Shares Memories of His Acquaintance with Archimandrite Gregory (Zumis) — The abbot of the Dochiariou monastery, Archimandrite Gregory (Zumis), was a hard-working man who loved simple monastic work. For many Athonite monasteries, a…
January 10, 2021 Athos Is a Place of Daily Work and Constant Prayer Our mosaicists, who by the grace of God had a chance to work at the Docheiariou monastery, saw it like this:
