November 2, 2017 178 0 Five Questions about Holy Communion 1. “Frequent Communion is bad for you.” This statement must be qualified. While the point of our lives as Christians is to enter into…
October 23, 2017 318 0 How Are Passions Born? Affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground, reasoned one of the friends of Job the Much-Suffering…
October 19, 2017 572 3 Why Are Musical Instruments Not Used in Orthodox Christian Worship? Q: Why Do the Orthodox not Use Musical Instruments in Worship? A: While there are parishes throughout the U.S. that have organs and use…
October 5, 2017 78 0 Why Do We Have Confession with a Priest Present? Question: If we can make confession to God without the priest, then why do we have confession with a priest present? Answer: In…
September 20, 2017 1011 0 Why are Unicorns Mentioned in the Psalter and Certain Antiphons? Question: In the antiphons of the feast of the Transfiguration I was struck by a reference to unicorns. What does that mean? Answer:…
September 14, 2017 1760 1 Happy (Ecclesiastical) New Year: Why Orthodox Christians Celebrate the New Year in September? The first day of September is celebrated as the Ecclesiastical or Church New Year by Orthodox Christians. It is also a day marked…
August 3, 2017 1486 0 St. Theophan’s Possible Assumptions Concerning Life on Other Planets From the Unpublished Collection of Letters by St. Theophan the Recluse: With great pleasure, I am ready to tell you a word or two…
March 28, 2017 823 0 “I Never Learned that in Catechism!” of Some Things We often Forget about Our Faith Half a decade ago, the few converts to Orthodoxy were usually individuals who wanted to marry an ethnic Orthodox Christian. Catechetical preparation for reception…
January 28, 2017 1539 1 Why Orthodox Christians Stand During Divine Services In performing divine services will it matter like the saints, Whom the God-inspired prophets Isaiah, Micah Daniel and St. John the Theologian saw “standing in the…