January 5, 2021 Is It All Right Not to Say the Prayer Rule, but to Listen to It instead? I cannot hear, Lord! How praying with the earphones is different from praying without Many years ago, when I was a student of at…
January 1, 2021 When Did Orthodox Christians Begin to Read Morning Prayers? A Christian’s morning should always begin with prayer and thanksgiving to God for the past night. Opening the Orthodox “best-seller”, known as a prayer…
December 21, 2020 Akathist to Saint Spyridon of Tremithus Kontakion 1 O holy hierarch and wonderworker Spyridon, who hast been glorified by the Lord! Celebrating now thy most honoured memory, with tenderness we…
December 1, 2020 What Is the Purpose of Prayer? A Few Words about Constancy If we look closely at the holy angels, we will notice several particularities: 1. Angels exist to do the will of God. They are…
November 7, 2020 How Can We Best Honor our Departed Loved Ones? We often see the relatives of the deceased spending large sums of money on luxurious monuments and other such attributes in their desire to…
November 7, 2020 About Prayer and Mending Relationships Let me share with you some examples of how heartfelt prayer can transform our lives. Both affected me directly and taught me one important…
November 6, 2020 Prayers for the Dead in the Bible and in Tradition Question: Where do we find any evidence that praying for the dead is a biblical? From what I have read it appears that the…
October 26, 2020 About the Importance of Morning and Evening Prayers Recently, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine said interesting words in one of his sermons. They were about the world trying…
October 17, 2020 The Word, the Mind, and the Heart: Some Practical Tips on Prayer There is a thing called tacit or mental prayer when the praying person, having gathered his mind inside his heart, from there, not audibly,…
October 16, 2020 Where Have the Prayers in the Divine Service Disappeared? “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people” (1 Tim. 2: 1). Following the Apostle’s…
