January 23, 2019 271 0 How to Pray: from Books or with Our Own Words? Many believers have developed a great love for the prayers found in our prayer books. In our prayer books we find collections of prayers,…
January 18, 2019 136 0 May a Service Be Held Outside of a Church? What Does One Need for That? Church traditions require that a Divine Liturgy must be celebrated in a church on a designated and consecrated Holy Table or at least on…
January 17, 2019 139 0 Theophany Eve: Is It Possible Not to Eat Anything All Day? The tradition to abstain from food for a day or more has existed since Old Testament times. All Jews were required to fast before…
January 2, 2019 182 0 Orthodox Priests on How We Can Know the Will of God In the course of our lives, we are often faced with the choice of how to proceed, which path to walk down, and not…
December 22, 2018 101 0 How to Bring Some Light into “Deserted” Church Here’s something I hear from time to time: “I’d like to join the Orthodox Church, but I visited a local church and it just…
November 25, 2018 260 0 Quick Confession: What if I Did not Have Time to Name All My Sins? Question: I prepared for Confession, and wrote my sins on a piece of paper. In the church there were lots of people, and the…
November 23, 2018 139 0 Church Reading: What Makes This Ministry so Important? Sometimes people say, “I am just a reader,” as though this were a petty or insignificant ministry. However, when the reader (whether tonsured or…
November 23, 2018 998 0 Let’s Make a Shadow Play This Christmas! As soon as the Nativity Fast begins, the anticipation of Christmas is literally spread in the air! This becomes especially evident in church: subdued…
November 21, 2018 101 0 How to Be Canonized? There is a joke that says, “To become a saint, you’ve got to die first.” In fact, that joke is one hundred percent true….
November 16, 2018 156 0 How to Form an Orthodox Conscience An Orthodox Christian conscience is created by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ acting within us. It is difficult to form this conscience….