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…
October 9, 2020 How an Orthodox Priest Saved Jews from the Holocaust The Holocaust is the mass genocide of Jews during the Second World War. During this time, the Nazis killed about 6 million people. The…
October 8, 2020 Why Doesn’t God Kill the Devil? We can feel the correctness of our faith, but we cannot always explain it or prove it to an unbeliever, especially to someone who…
October 8, 2020 The Shape of Things to Come These “forerunners” of the Antichrist also direct that world-wide process which the Apostle St. Paul called “apostasy” (II Thess. 2:3). The essence of this…
October 7, 2020 Joshua as a Prototype of Jesus Christ On September 1, according to the Julian calendar, the Church celebrated the memory of the Old Testament saint Joshua. There is a separate book…
October 7, 2020 The Devil Has Nothing to Respond to This and Flies Off Like a Streak Luke 4: 1-15 Ephesians 5: 25-33 The Lord Jesus Christ after His baptism spent forty days in the wilderness, “tempted by the devil.” The…
October 6, 2020 Is It True That Christ Was “Invented” by Cult Members Hundreds of Years before Christianity? In the 1st-2nd centuries BC, a religious group of Essenes lived in the vicinity of the Dead Sea, who wrote about the “Teacher of…
October 6, 2020 Details in Iconography: Understanding the Significance of an Earring An icon is, first of all, a holy image before which we stand in prayer. It is also a visibly expressed life experience of…
