October 20, 2017 12 Thoughts of Athonite Elders on How to Stay Healthy and Defeat Your Diseases 1 When we give ourselves to Christ, then our spiritual organism is in peace, which allows our organs begin to function naturally. They all…
October 13, 2017 How Can I Defeat the Passion of Laziness? “Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise, which, having no captain, overseer or ruler, provides her supplies in the…
October 12, 2017 Seven Stories and Parables for the Week: Issue 4 There was a young boy who was walking with his parents in the woods one day. He saw a clean brook. He drank some…
August 10, 2017 How to Keep the Church Typicon According to St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco The divine services and rites of the Orthodox Church, having as their foundation one typicon and preserving commonality in all that is substantially…
July 26, 2017 How to Set Up a Personal Commemoration Book What follows is directions on how to set up a private commemoration book for use in one’s private prayers…
June 26, 2017 Twenty Suggestions when Preparing Your Children for Confession and the Holy Communion Although the Confessions of adults are sometimes tiresome, the Confessions of children and teenagers are still the most difficult for me. “I did not…
May 12, 2017 Advice on Ways to Form an Orthodox Conscience Here are the ways in which we can cooperate with God’s grace and form this conscience within ourselves: 1 . We are to have…
March 28, 2017 “I Never Learned that in Catechism!” of Some Things We often Forget about Our Faith Half a decade ago, the few converts to Orthodoxy were usually individuals who wanted to marry an ethnic Orthodox Christian. Catechetical preparation for reception…
November 30, 2016 When Are We to Fast: Midnight-to-Midnight, or Vespers-to-Vespers? I have been confused about the fasting regulations; I understand them with regard to what we can or cannot eat on certain days, but…