February 21, 2020 Help for the Departed Souls from Commemoration at the Liturgy (Saint Gregory the Great’s legend of a monk who died during his epitimia and was forgiven after thirty-day commemoration) Prayers, commemoration charity work performed…
November 1, 2019 Is It Necessary to Celebrate the Birthday of The Deceased Person and The Day of His Death? Is It Necessary to Celebrate the Birthday of The Deceased Person and The Day of His Death? Usually people just request a memorial service…
October 30, 2019 How to Commemorate the Dead Outside the Church: Is It Possible to Pray with Your Own Words? Is It True That There Is No Hope for Salvation for Suicides, People Who Died Unbaptized, Or for Those Who Were Ardent Atheists During…
October 28, 2019 Can One Speak with the Dead and Ask for Their Help? As almost to all questions concerning the afterlife, there can be no single answer. It is no coincidence that saint Anastasios of Sinai says…
August 27, 2019 Death, The Beginning of Glory Why does the Church celebrate the Dormition (i.e., literally death) of the Mother of God? Why are the days of memory of the saints…
August 21, 2019 What Do We Expect Heaven to Be Like? What an exciting Question! I was once with a 15- year-old boy who was dying in the middle of the night after a long…
August 9, 2019 Several Provisions on Toll Houses There is a contested concept of toll houses in the Orthodox Church. Perhaps, every Orthodox Christian has had to consider how he or she…
July 5, 2019 Where Do Departed Unbaptized Infants Go? Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:14). Everyone in his…
March 2, 2018 An Overview of Memorial Saturdays of Great Lent Saturday is the day which the Church has set aside for the commemoration of faithful Orthodox Christians departed this life in the hope of…
October 26, 2017 The Significance of the Rituals Connected with Death and Dying in the Orthodox Church Theological and scriptural grounding It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for…
