January 2, 2020 The Sacraments and Rites of the Orthodox Church: What Is the Difference? To answer this question let us consult the Orthodox catechism. The word “catechism” in Greek means “teaching, instruction”. The term “catechism” in church literature…
January 1, 2020 The Necessity for Facts: Is Christmas a Fairy Tale? Four years ago, along I-94 west of downtown Milwaukee, these words were on a billboard sponsored by a local atheist group. I read that…
December 24, 2019 Why Are the Orthodox Divine Services So Different? Worship is at the heart of the life of the Church. The whole life of an Orthodox Christian is imbued with it, both private…
December 22, 2019 What Does It Mean When A Person Is Blessed Unto The Seventh Generation? God says to the Jewish people in the Old Testament immediately after He had led them out of Egypt, “I the LORD thy God…
December 17, 2019 Is the Septuagint More Reliable than the Hebrew Text of the Old Testament? In the “Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs” of 1848, which was a reply to the epistle of Pope Pius IX, “To the Easterns,” the…
December 14, 2019 Leaving the Church after the Lord’s Prayer If you want to leave the Divine Liturgy at any time, of course, no one will pull you back by force. What matters, however,…
December 10, 2019 Why Does The Book of Psalms Begin with Blessed Is the Man? Saint John Chrysostom called Psalms the words of the Holy Spirit. Saint Basil the Great said the following about it: … it is a…
December 6, 2019 How Does the Church Treat Organ Transplantation? The Orthodox Church is guided by two sources in its activities: Holy Scripture as the word of God and Church Tradition, which in fact…
November 27, 2019 Recommendations for Baking Prosphoras at Home We decided to prepare this piece in response to a comment to one of our blog posts. A reader complained that when he bakes…
November 15, 2019 I Want To Resign. How Do I Make The Right Decision? Question: Father, if my job is no longer satisfying, my health deteriorates, my team is uninvolved, and my management makes excessive demands, what should…
November 15, 2019 May Lay People Cense at Home? The book of the prophet Malachi says, For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name…
November 13, 2019 Is It OK To Buy Secondhand Clothing? Do I Need to Sprinkle It With Holy Water? Of course, you may. We are not ashamed to buy a used car or an apartment in which someone lived before us, are we?…
