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…
January 4, 2020 Why Is the Litany for the Catechumens Omitted Sometimes? We can often find that in the everyday liturgical practice of a parish, the litany for the catechumens, and thus the prayer for the…
November 22, 2019 The Problem of the Third Hour Troparion Interpolation The Orthodox have celebrated the Liturgy for more than two thousand years. The Liturgy has gone through a great deal of development, evolution and…
November 8, 2019 Division or Addition? In recent decades, thanks to the active revival of church life, the Russian Orthodox Church has seen an increase in the number of communicants….
April 23, 2019 Does Wine Turn into the Blood in Case of the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts? The Orthodox Church holds an amazing and sublime service called the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts during the Great Lent. This Liturgy is ‘abridged’,…
April 19, 2019 Cherubic Hymn and Great Entrance: What (Not) To Do? The Cherubic Hymn is a preliminary or prefatorial chant to the Eucharistic Canon, which culminates in the transmutation (that is, a sacramental transformation) of…
April 5, 2019 Who Is Who in the Church, or Who Keeps the Worship Running Archimandrite Dositheus (Mikhailiuk), a professor of Kiev Theological Academy, on those who perform and participate in worship. Father, who are those people who perform…
April 2, 2019 When Is Communion Forbidden During the Lent and Why? There is no such thing as a prohibition of communion in the Orthodox Church. The Sacrament of Eucharist is the ultimate sacred ritual there…
March 7, 2019 8 General Rules for Readers in the Orthodox Church With all reading in Church, certain rules apply: 1. Never read while walking or moving around. 2. It is not necessary to make the…
February 6, 2019 The Divine Liturgy: The Facts that You Didn’t Know The Divine Liturgy is the most important divine office. There are countless articles and books describing it. In the same way that the Liturgy…
