July 3, 2019 138 0 How a Future Bishop Tried to Finish a Soviet School When I was in my final year at school in the late sixties, they were reluctant to give me the certificate because they knew…
June 27, 2019 1298 0 Can the Church Do without Deacons? Recently I overheard a conversation about deacons and someone opined that if there were no deacons in the Church no one would notice, and…
September 7, 2018 47 0 Priests Answer: Why Is Charity an Inseparable Part of Spiritual Life? It is not a secret that St. Elisabeth Convent is running various charitable project to support people in need. The Catalog of Good Deeds…
June 24, 2018 170 0 St. John of Kronstadt on the Burden of Priesthood “Dear brethren, priests and co-pastors of Christ’s flock! The greatest of callings has been entrusted to us from God. We are clothed with the…
June 15, 2018 120 0 Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen): “Giving Seminarians a Hope for the Future” His Eminence Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen) became Orthodox in the age of 19 having been received from the Episcopalian Church in San Diego at the…
November 30, 2017 656 0 “Can I Become a Matushka?” or a Few Notes on Becoming the Wife of a Priest It would be so wonderful if we could open a book, entitled “A Manual”, or even “The Ladder of Perfection”, which would describe in…
October 20, 2017 536 0 Impediments and Advice on the Priestly Vocation The following represents my own personal reflections and are not necessarily representative of anyone else’s opinions. I focus on the UOC-USA because it is…
November 1, 2016 143 0 The Orthodox Priest: An Icon of Christ In this holy season you could have a child ask you, “why was Jesus born as a boy? Why couldn’t St. Mary have had…
June 8, 2016 412 2 Origins of Orthodox Vestments: Ancillary Vestment Pieces Having surveyed the origins of the most significant pieces of Orthodox liturgical vesture, it now remains to consider a few auxiliary garments. Zone (Belt)…
May 17, 2016 810 0 Origins of Orthodox Vestments: Orarion, Epitrachelion, Omophorion From “The History of Vestments” It is with the omophorion that we come to one of the most debated topics in the study of…
