October 21, 2020 Will Our Children Keep the Faith? The Catastrophe of Modern Education I have already written on multiple occasions of the urgent necessity of creating Orthodox parish schools in America. Our…
August 28, 2020 Saint Paisios of Mount Athos on Parental Blessing The greatest treasure for people living in the world is parental blessing. Similarly, the greatest blessing in the life of a monk is that…
August 17, 2020 Marital Relations During a Fast The Church definitely instructs us to abstain from marital intimacy during a fast, but we must understand that there are always nuances. There are…
June 19, 2020 Practical Tips: How to Make the Right Choice of an Orthodox Spouse? First of all, you should figure out what Orthodoxy is for him/her. To begin with, it is enough to look at the pages of…
June 9, 2020 Do We Need Monogamy in Today’s World? Myth Monogamy is outdated. Religious demands for loyalty made sense when there were no effective remedies for unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, and…
June 8, 2020 Don’t Put Pressure On Your Child All who go to church must be in love with Christ so that others can notice it. Do we not say: “Love cannot be…
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…
