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…
May 10, 2020 Saint Paisios of Mount Athos on Lack of Maternal Love Today, children “starve” for lack of maternal love. They do not even learn the mother’s native language, because the mother spends whole days at…
February 27, 2020 Children and the Lent When I was a child, the beginning of the Lent was marked by our going to our village church, where we changed white towels…
February 16, 2020 They Want Me To Go To Church Not So Much For My Sake As For Their Sake A child once told me, “Father, I would like to go to church in the morning. I really want to go.” “Great,” I tell…
January 21, 2020 Why a Child Is Not the Center and Meaning of a Family In Orthodox circles, it is often heard that the meaning of creating a family is childbearing, and for those who cannot have children, there…
January 17, 2020 The High and Holy Calling of Being a Wife An excerpt from “Glory and Honor: Orthodox Christian Resources on Marriage,” edited by David and Mary Ford, St Vladimir’s Seminary Press. Why do people get married?…
December 27, 2019 Archimandrite Andrew (Konanos): If a Child Smokes, Parents Should Blame Themselves If a sinful man looks up to God and says, “My God, I have sinned before You, I have made such a sin. Punish…
December 22, 2019 Fr. Andrew (Konanos): How Not to Turn the Children Away From God Think about how free Christ was, how freely He dealt with His disciples. When some of his followers left him, he said to his…
December 17, 2019 Saint Theophan the Recluse: How to Keep Righteousness in Family Life The Attitude of The Mother-In-Law to A Newly-Married Daughter-In-Law However, I am writing to you to ease your concerns; “what kind of person she…
December 3, 2019 What a Christian Child in Russia Struggle with Today? The relationship between religious children and the world, or rather between children from Christian families and their non-religious peers, is a challenging topic. The…
