February 27, 2019 126 0 Some Tips That May Be Useful When Crisis Come When a serious issue or a crisis comes into your life, how will you deal with it? For most of us it is a…
February 18, 2019 87 0 The Meeting: a Modern Day Miracle In Our Monastery Sisters who work in church shops scattered around Minsk often chance upon genuine miracles. The Lord lets them meet amazing people who remain in…
February 8, 2019 142 0 The Burden of Decisions: Helping our Teenagers to Navigate in Their Life Over the past several decades the external pressures and challenges associated with parenting teenagers have been varied. Whether it was the introduction of rock…
January 29, 2019 160 0 Some Ideas on Welcoming and Retaining Those Who Had Left the Church A newspaper reporter was interviewing the mother of a large family of children. The reporter asked her the difficult question, “Which of your children…
January 22, 2019 499 0 A U.S. Christian Moved to Russia to Protect His Children from Moral Decay “Whether rightly or wrongly I saw a trend toward an increasing intrusiveness by the government in America to dictate what my children could and…
January 9, 2019 195 0 Personal Story: the Mystery of Conversion and the Long Way to It I often hear stories from people I’ve met along the way about the path that lead them to Orthodoxy. More often than not‚ these…
October 12, 2018 7418 1 A List of 10 Unique Features of the Gospel of Mark 1) A well-known phrase was mentioned in the Gospel of Mark: “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath” (Mark…
October 3, 2018 661 0 15 Quotes of Spiritual Guidance by Saint Macarius of Optina 1. Faith is the foundation of all goodness you need both in this life and to secure a good fate in the future everlasting eternity….
October 3, 2018 173 0 How One Should Read the Holy Scripture in the Right Way Perhaps one of the most memorable verses in the New Testament comes from the Prologue of St. John’s Gospel, “ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος,…
October 2, 2018 136 0 Parable of the Day: What Has Sin in Common with Dirty Laundry? Dirty laundry needs to be washed sooner or later. You can dump the dirty clothes into a huge vat to postpone the unpleasant moment…