October 15, 2020 Confession Has to Be Repentance, and not a Story about Your Life Often people write down too much in their notes. They go into excessive detail about something or other, which is not quite proper. There…
October 14, 2020 How Russian Icon Painting Glorified the Protection of the Mother of God For a long time the Protection of the Holy Virgin, or the Pokrov* has been especially revered in the Russian land. Notably, the early…
October 13, 2020 What Can and What Cannot an Orthodox Christian Do on Holidays? “Remember the Sabbath day,” or, in layman language, “you can’t work on holidays,” is perhaps the most “popular” commandment both in the church environment…
October 13, 2020 Saint Silouan the Athonite and His Experience of Confronting Demonic Powers Quite a lot has been said about him, and I’m unlikely to write something new here. When you read the lives or works of…
October 13, 2020 I Met an Angel at Jordanville Once I met an angel at Jordanville once. That angel took the time to correct and challenge me to see the beauty, the holiness, in every person…
October 12, 2020 We Need to Pray with Every Prayer About different prayers Luke 4: 22-30 Ephesians 6: 18-24 Finding the best way to pray often becomes a topic of debate. The apostle says:…
October 12, 2020 Saint Edwin of Northumbria, King and Martyr, and Saint Ethelburgh, Queen and Abbess of Lyminge By the time of the repose of St. Augustine of Canterbury in 604 there was only one kingdom in the whole of England that…
October 11, 2020 Elder Nikolay Guryanov’s Spiritual Counsels “Our life is blessed… A God’s gift… We have a treasure in us – our souls. If we preserve it in this temporary world,…
October 11, 2020 Do not Deprive God of an Opportunity to Save You Some time ago we received a difficult question, “How to overcome the fear of death”. We asked Archpriest Igor Fomin to answer this letter….
October 10, 2020 Bells of the Holy Danilov Monastery in Moscow Bells have been used In the Christian tradition since the fourth century. For ages bell-ringing has been a way to gather believers in the…
October 10, 2020 What is the Meaning of the Feast of Tabernacles? Q: “What is the meaning of the Feast of Tabernacles?” A: The feast of Tabernacles (or Booths) was one the three great feasts of…
October 9, 2020 Controversy around the Prayer of the Cherubikon Сatapetasma Prayer Cherubic Hymn is among many believers’ favorite chants of the Orthodox liturgy. Some even tend to consider that moment to be the…
