April 21, 2019 Dying Like True Christians In the book “Everyday Saints” there is a section about a monastery in Russia which had fallen into moral decay. This was not long…
March 26, 2019 On Breaking and Cutting the Bread, or Why Did the Knife Appear? The knife has been used for cutting the Bread for a long time. Priests in Constantinople started to use it in the early 8th…
March 22, 2019 When and Why Did The Tradition of Giving Communion on a Spoon Arise? Archimandrite Alypius (Svetlichny) on the history and symbolism of liturgical utensils. What Vessels and Diskoses Were Used for the Eucharist After the Edict of…
March 20, 2019 Do We Know What the Chalice that Jesus Used for His Last Ritual Passover Supper Looked Like? Archimandrite Alypius (Svetlichny) on the history and symbolism of liturgical utensils. It is lamentable sometimes that there are so few descriptions and details in…
March 17, 2019 5 Greatest Heresies and How the Church Overcame Them There is an unusual and rare service called The Triumph of Orthodoxy held only once a year, on the first Sunday of the Great…
February 28, 2019 Saint Raphael: the Holy Shepherd of Brooklyn Sometimes there seems to be a saint who doesn’t really stand out, believe it or not. They are laborers in God’s vineyard, and their…
February 26, 2019 A Brief Overview of Orthodox History in Belarus Belarus accepted Christianity from the Byzantine Empire with the establishment of the first diocese (the Polotsk diocese) in 992, which is regarded as the…
February 25, 2019 The Image and Meaning of Fire in Orthodox Tradition I heard a sermon at a Liturgy in the Boarding Home. The priest likened human souls to vigil lamps filled with oil and waiting…
February 22, 2019 A True Story about the Uncovering of the Relics of Patriarch Tikhon From book “Everyday Saints and Other Stories” by Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov). One of the many mysteries of ecclesiastical life in Soviet times was what…
February 18, 2019 A List of 15 Most Biggest Local Orthodox Churches The Orthodox Church is a family of Local Churches, just like the Churches of the Galatians, the Ephesians, the Romans, the Thessalonians, the Colossians…
