September 4, 2018 125 0 A Walk with God: Why Is it Helpful to Pray while Walking? We live in stressful times. This is both good and bad. Researchers have shown that a certain level of stress is good for us….
July 8, 2018 781 1 St. John Chrysostom on Motherhood and Mother’s Prayer As someone who studies motherhood and theology and who has five children myself, fellow Orthodox mothers often ask me if I can point…
June 8, 2018 164 0 What comes after Silence in Prayer? Silence comes gradually in prayer. This is our first stage in seeking a union with God. It is this silence where you are able…
May 29, 2018 41 0 Bringing Children to God through Prayer As Orthodox parents, our most basic task is to bring our children to a sense of the truth, of the real-ness, of God. This…
May 15, 2018 94 2 What One Should have in One’s Head While Praying Question: Your blessing, Father. A lot of books mention that we are strongly advised against imagining the Lord, the Theotokos, or the saints while…
February 26, 2018 228 0 Reasons Why Orthodox Christians Repeat the Same Prayers Many Times Our life is full of repetition. It makes us who we are. For example, we are alive because we repeat the basic function of…
January 23, 2018 48 0 Fifteen Commentaries Concerning Prayer 1. Prayer is a specific activity that must be a part of a person’s life. It is, as the catechism says, “a lifting of…
December 22, 2017 117 0 Why Do We Hear the Word “Rejoice!” in Akathist Hymns? As a genre of Christian hymnography, an akathist is special not only because of its structure but also because of its joyful mood. It…
December 19, 2017 585 0 Akathist Hymn to Saint Nicholas, Great Wonderworker Kontakion 1 O champion wonderworker and superb servant of Christ, thou who pourest out for all the world the most precious myrrh of mercy and an inexhaustible sea of…
December 15, 2017 217 0 The Earliest Known Prayer to the Mother of God So far, the earliest known prayer to the Virgin Mary is known as “Beneath thy compassion” (Greek: Ὑπὸ τὴν σὴν εὐσπλαγχνίαν). The earliest text…