February 15, 2018 31 0 A List of Last Minute Rules and Suggestions in Preparation for Great Lent To avoid turning Lent into hard and senseless weeks of diet, one should keep several simple rules. The aim of a fast is to…
February 15, 2018 339 0 Your Guide to Prostrations during Great Lent During Lent we make more prostrations. That’s a process that begins by making the sign of the Cross, then bowing down, resting your knees…
February 12, 2018 115 0 Cheesefare Week: In Great Lent VS Outside of Great Lent Cheesefare week, the last full week before Great Lent begins, is an “in between” week liturgically in the Orthodox Church. Each day is “kind…
February 9, 2018 247 0 Why Do We Abstain from Meat during the Cheesefare Week? Cheesefare Sunday received it’s name because the previous week we did not eat meat, but only dairy products, such as milk, cheese, etc., as…
February 9, 2018 88 0 How We Treat the Living Icons of Christ How would you respond to someone who destroyed or defaced a picture of one of your loved ones? You would probably be very upset…
February 5, 2018 80 1 Reflections Upon the Prodigal Son It’s no use to ask the Prodigal Son just how he ran away. He probably couldn’t tell you how he ended up in the…
December 1, 2017 83 1 The Start of the Nativity Fast: Why do we fast from foods? We have begun the joyous and holy Nativity Fast. The fast begins on November 28, or forty days before the Nativity in the flesh…
August 14, 2017 241 0 History of the Dormition Fast The Dormition fast was established as preceding the great feasts of the Transfiguration of the Lord and of the Dormition of the Mother…
June 12, 2017 601 0 What Is the Fast of the Apostles and How to Follow the Fast? Orthodox Christians around the world observe four fasting seasons during the year. Two of these—the Great Fast for the forty days…
April 14, 2017 172 2 The Meaning of the Great and Holy Friday Holy Friday, also known as Good Friday, Black Friday, Great Friday, is a holy day observed by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ…