June 2, 2020 Should Children Be Involved in Church Obedience? Kids look so sweet stepping out onto the ambo! How they try to do everything right, how tightly they hold candles! But few people…
March 31, 2020 St. Andrew’s Great Canon: a Rival Voice Every year during Lent we invite into our churches a great pastor, St. Andrew of Crete, and listen while he leads us in a…
March 3, 2020 How to Deal with Physical Fatigue During Worship? Practical Tips A divine service is not a pleasant concert, it is a prayerful effort. After the Fall, everything good is difficult for a person, and…
January 18, 2020 Two Great Blessings of Water on Epiphany One of the main liturgical highlights of the celebration of the Baptism of the Lord is undoubtedly the Great Blessing of Water. The first…
January 18, 2020 The White Vestry Depending on the day of the church year, we see vestments of a particular color in the church. On some holidays, the most significant…
January 17, 2020 What’s So Special about the Epiphany Eve Service? The great and bright feast of Epiphany is coming. It is called the Feast of Lights in liturgical texts because on this day the…
November 16, 2019 Eagle Rug As a Symbol of Bishop’s Ministry Orthodox worship is one of the richest Christian religious practices in terms of its symbolism. In addition to the liturgical texts and rituals, the…
November 14, 2019 11 “Naïve” Questions to a Priest from a Newcomer I am forty years old. I was baptized only recently, and I have been to a confession fewer times than the number of fingers on…
November 9, 2019 The Compilers of the Philokalia Answer the Opponents of Frequent Communion There was a certain crisis of the Eucharistic life in the Russian Orthodox Church during the Synodal era. People received communion only sporadically, on…
October 10, 2019 Is Poverty the Wages of Sin? Poor people have understandably always treated the rich with no particular fondness. This can be explained by the fact that the number of poor…
