March 25, 2019 Spiritual Readings for Great Lent Lent seems like a long time at the beginning, but it can pass you by quickly, if you don’t make a point of…
March 24, 2019 St. Gregory Palamas: 9 Facts about the Originator of the Tabor Light Teaching We commemorate the great theologian and monk Saint Gregory Palamas on the second Sunday of the Great Lent. When we mention the name of this saint…
March 19, 2019 Why Is It Forbidden to Get Married During the Lent? Longing for a source of joy that you’ve lost can make all other delights of the world seem unimportant. Everything has its time and…
March 13, 2019 Simple Tips on How to Keep Lent in Your Family Let’s be honest: how do we moms feel when we suddenly realize while we are in Liturgy, that the Gospel reading for the Sunday…
March 12, 2019 Some Key Points of the Orthodox Christian Way of Fasting The sacred and venerable discipline of fasting in the Orthodox Church, linked to both the Old and New Testaments, is a tradition which continues…
March 11, 2019 Great Lent: the Time to Put Your Life’s Worries aside Just yesterday we Orthodox were called by Christ to forgive one another as part of Forgiveness Sunday and our preparation for entering into Great Lent . Lent is…
March 11, 2019 “The More Spiritual Effort You Make, the More You Get!” I hope that everyone has at least heard that “there is no salvation without humility.” All emotional and bodily pleasures are regrettably opposed to…
March 10, 2019 8 Important Things to Remember in Anticipation of Great Lent The Great Lent is near. It is time for every Christian to pause and think what he or she should give up for the…
March 10, 2019 The Day Before Great Lent The last preparatory week before the Great Lent is over. It has an alternative name — Meatfare Week — due to the fact that…
March 10, 2019 Forgiveness Sunday Tomorrow we enter the holy days of Great Lent, and the Church calls us to ask forgiveness of one another with repentance and humility…
