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…
October 12, 2020 We Need to Pray with Every Prayer About different prayers Luke 4: 22-30 Ephesians 6: 18-24 Finding the best way to pray often becomes a topic of debate. The apostle says:…
October 9, 2020 Controversy around the Prayer of the Cherubikon Сatapetasma Prayer Cherubic Hymn is among many believers’ favorite chants of the Orthodox liturgy. Some even tend to consider that moment to be the…
September 9, 2020 Importance of Repetition A Protestant friend asked me: How can you pray the same prayers all the time? Isn’t it limiting and monotonous? We’re certainly not expected…
July 10, 2020 The Usual Beginning of Prayers This article will deal with the topic of the usual beginning of the divine services. What is the meaning and purpose of these initial…
July 2, 2020 Troparion and Kontakion to St. Alypius of Kiev Caves Troparion to St. Alypius You depicted the images of saints on tablets / as the artful painter, O all-praiseworthy Alypius, / you wrote the…
May 11, 2020 Praying in the Difficult Times Have you ever gone through (or presently going through) a really difficult time in your life? It could be injuries from an accident or…
May 2, 2020 Akathist to Saint Matrona of Moscow Kontakion 1 Chosen by the Holy Spirit of God from thy swaddling clothes, blessed eldress Matrona, thou didst receive bodily infirmity and blindness from…
