November 18, 2020 10 Mistakes On The Way To Marriage Why are people who wholeheartedly want to have their own family, children, often unable to build relationships? Why, having found their “soulmate”, do they…
November 17, 2020 Two Oaths In today’s world, people do not swear by anything. Our words are not taken at their face value any more. Words have been replaced…
November 17, 2020 A Unique Workshop Called “Dobrodel” for People with Disabilities For several years now, the Dobrodel workshop has been operating in our convent, where people with disabilities can find fulfilment. There’s a lot of…
November 17, 2020 Did Jesus Christ Teach Reincarnation? The misconception It is a common false belief that Jesus and His first disciples professed reincarnation, but that the Church prohibited this teaching at…
November 16, 2020 What to Do when Spiritual Life Becomes a Routine? Question: It worries me that I fulfil most of my duties as a believer, led by the principle “this has to be done”, sometimes…
November 16, 2020 Can You Be Too Virtuous? Is it possible to be excessively virtuous? The question might seem ridiculous and yet one can find in the Church Fathers comments saying even…
November 15, 2020 What are the Signs of Developing Pride? Answering a reader’s question, psychologist Alexander Tkachenko talks about identifying pride at its roots. I would view the development of pride as a path…
November 15, 2020 The Gadarene Demoniac Luke 8:26-39 Then they sailed to the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. And when He stepped out on the land, there…
November 14, 2020 Why Does the Orthodox Church Not Bless People to Stage Revolutions? This question was answered by St Paul the Apostle at the very beginning of Christianity. He explained that regardless of how bright the ideas…
November 14, 2020 The Hardest and Most Important Ascetic Labor When we think about the saints, we very often imagine their lives to be an unceasing movement from earth to heaven, a continual going…
November 13, 2020 The History and Meaning of the Catapetasma Almost every church has a curtain separating the central nave from the altar. Historically, such a curtain appeared even earlier than the actual altar…
November 12, 2020 The Symbolism and Splendour of Gold in Church Art (Part 2) Part 1 How did gold come to be used in church art? Why does it adorn the images of the saints? Is gold still…
