June 5, 2018 196 0 Steps of Repentance, or What Made Apostle Peter Sad? Why did Apostle Peter feel sad after hearing the Savior ask him “Do you love me?” for the third time? Why does the Greek…
April 2, 2018 133 0 A Coconut Fast: How My Children Began to Love Great Lent “A strict fast – well, it is just impossible for a modern person. Having such a stressful daily routine, people are not allowed to…
March 22, 2018 137 0 How Fasting Helps Us with Prayer Like many other “second-order” virtues, fasting is spiritually beneficial principally because of what it enables us to do, or learn, or achieve, rather than…
March 9, 2018 80 0 3 Answers from Father Andrew: What Kind of Music Is Suitable to Listen to During Great Lent? Question: May I listen to music during the Great Lent? What kind of music is suitable for this season? Answer: There is hardly…
March 9, 2018 184 0 Lenten or not: How to Read Ingredient Labels during Great Lent Back in the day, there were no canned foods, chemically cloned flavors, hermetically sealed wrappers, governmentally required labelling, the FDA, Food Police and trace…
March 9, 2018 82 0 What on Earth Can I Eat Since the Church Forbids Eating Meat, Fish, and Dairy During Great Lent? The first question which presents itself during the Lenten season is one of cuisine: “What on earth can I eat since the Church forbids…
March 2, 2018 74 0 An Overview of Memorial Saturdays of Great Lent Saturday is the day which the Church has set aside for the commemoration of faithful Orthodox Christians departed this life in the hope of…
February 22, 2018 118 0 “Broke the Fast!”: How Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh Violated the Rules Sometimes it happens like this: a person tries to keep the fast, but then he falls and feels that he has defiled his whole…
February 22, 2018 13 0 The Comparison between Great Lent and Christ’s Fast The didactic imitation of the fast of Christ during the time preceding the days in which the sufferings, the death and the glorious resurrection…
February 16, 2018 29 0 Forgivenes Sunday as Our Guide into Great Lent I miss Ash Wednesday, the Western liturgical churches’ entry into Lent. The ashes on the forehead in the shape of the Cross, the important…