June 16, 2019 498 0 Holy Fathers of the Church on Child Rearing Parents and teachers, keep your children free from whims, for if you don’t, they will soon disregard the price of your love, contaminate their…
May 23, 2019 610 0 Some Thoughts on Marriage: Which Sin Cannot Be Forgiven? Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery. These…
April 16, 2019 554 0 Some Christian Ideas on Raising a Real Man All parents want to raise their boy to be a person they could be proud of; a person who will become the head of…
March 19, 2019 193 0 Why Is It Forbidden to Get Married During the Lent? Longing for a source of joy that you’ve lost can make all other delights of the world seem unimportant. Everything has its time and…
March 13, 2019 260 0 Simple Tips on How to Keep Lent in Your Family Let’s be honest: how do we moms feel when we suddenly realize while we are in Liturgy, that the Gospel reading for the Sunday…
March 6, 2019 115 0 10 Wonderful Books that You Can Read with Your Little Christians The family where I work as a babysitter is very fond of reading. Just a couple days ago, a delivery guy brought some new…
March 1, 2019 171 1 “If I Were President Putin…”: How to Reduce the Amount of Divorces The Rev. Dmitry Smirnov is a handsome and appealing man who hails from Moscow bohemian circles. He is the chairman of the Patriarchal Commission…
February 21, 2019 160 1 How Your Daughter Can Help in Your Parish “But what’s my job?” shouted my indignant four-year-old daughter as we cruised down the frozen food aisle. Her nine-year-old sister was reminding me to…
February 21, 2019 277 0 About St. Luke of Ellada and the Grave Sin of Disrespecting One’s Parents St. Luke was born in Ellada (Greece) to a poor peasant family. He herded sheep and tilled land. He was marked by exceptional piety since…
February 13, 2019 86 0 How Are We to Teach Empathy to Our Children Today? How do we teach empathy to our children? In a society of “me, me, me,” it seems like an uphill battle to instill such…