March 9, 2018 Lenten or not: How to Read Ingredient Labels during Great Lent Back in the day, there were no canned foods, chemically cloned flavors, hermetically sealed wrappers, governmentally required labelling, the FDA, Food Police and trace…
March 9, 2018 What on Earth Can I Eat Since the Church Forbids Eating Meat, Fish, and Dairy During Great Lent? The first question which presents itself during the Lenten season is one of cuisine: “What on earth can I eat since the Church forbids…
March 1, 2018 The History and Development of Great Lent In the seven weeks approaching Pascha, the Orthodox fast and pray during a season that we call, “Lent.” Lent is a practice that has…
February 26, 2018 Words of Guidance for the Second Week of Great Lent During this week the holy Church continues to exhort us to fasting, prayer, penance, charity and other efforts of virtue, opening also to the…
February 23, 2018 The miracle of Saint Theodore and the boiled wheat Today we remember the miracle of Saint Theodore and the boiled wheat. Fifty years after the death of Saint Theodore, the emperor Julian the…
February 22, 2018 “Broke the Fast!”: How Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh Violated the Rules Sometimes it happens like this: a person tries to keep the fast, but then he falls and feels that he has defiled his whole…
February 20, 2018 The Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts as One of the Greatest Masterpieces of Orthodox Piety and Liturgical Creativity The joyousness which accompanies the performance of the Divine Liturgies of St. Basil the Great and St. John Chrysostom was regarded by the early…
February 15, 2018 Your Guide to Prostrations during Great Lent During Lent we make more prostrations. That’s a process that begins by making the sign of the Cross, then bowing down, resting your knees…
February 12, 2018 Cheesefare Week: In Great Lent VS Outside of Great Lent Cheesefare week, the last full week before Great Lent begins, is an “in between” week liturgically in the Orthodox Church. Each day is “kind…
May 16, 2016 Paschal Priests’ Sermons: “I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life” By Fr. Andrew Lemeshonok We have forty days of joy ahead of us, and that is such a temptation! It is a…
