Bringing up children

The Beginning of the School Year: Some Questions for Parents to Think About

02 September 2009

Accompanying our children’s education, there are some other areas with which parents need to concern themselves in relation to students’ spiritual and moral lives. Below are a few questions for ...

Redeeming the Time: What to do on Saturdays and Sundays

25 August 2009

Archpriest John Shimchick

I realize that due to our inability to serve more than one Sunday divine liturgy it is sometimes difficult to fit in some activities that get planned on Sunday morning. But if we allow our children ...

Training Up a Child: Educational Options for Orthodox Christians

10 August 2009

Bishop THOMAS (Joseph) of Charleston, Oakland and the Mid-Atlantic

In recent times, there has been much discussion among Orthodox people regarding how we should raise and instruct our children, which is a good thing, since, as St. Theophan the Recluse tells us, “Of ...

Building an Orthodox Christian Home

29 July 2009

In 2009, the accelerating rate of change, the spinning pace people keep, and the lack of quiet is an enemy that contends for our souls and the hearts of our children. We don’t know how to be still or ...

Courting Disaster

20 July 2009

Archpriest Geoffrey Korz

Orthodox youth display largely the same sexual activity, pregnancy, and abortion rates as other North American youth. So-called "Orthodox" countries such as Greece and Russia have the ...

Raising Children in the Orthodox Faith

19 March 2009

Fr. John-Mark

In the same way, any child who grows up surrounded in an atmosphere of prayer in the home will, almost certainly, find himself drawn into that pattern of regular and effortless prayer. By ...

Children and Prayer

20 October 2008

Abbot Theodosius of Optina

"I wish, children, to talk to you about prayer. Do you know how to train yourself to pray? First, you must pray just a little, but as often as possible. Prayer is like a spark: in time it can ...

Junk food for the soul

16 October 2008

Television is an almost precise spiritual equivalent of junk food. The entire content of its programming is unedifying, un-nourishing, opposed to sound mental and emotional health, and filled with ...

An Orthodox View on Child Abuse

08 October 2008

Even more widespread in our society is the emotional abandonment of our children. Children are not "wanted", they are a "burden," it is not "fashionable" to have ...

“Blessed Are the Pure in Heart for They Shall See God”

18 September 2008

Parents are for the child the first door to the Kingdom of God. By the way the parents live a godly life, they provide the first example of God’s love and care. Saint Theophan the Recluse (The Path ...

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News

23 October

Metropolitan Hilarion: Filaret Denisenko Was and Remains a Schismatic

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk Meets with Pope Francis

22 October

Archbishop Clement: Nationalists are Already Killing our Priests and Capturing Churches

21 October

Joint Statement of the Serbian and Antiochian Orthodox Patriarchates

“Kiev Patriarchate” declares Kiev Caves and Pochaev Lavras to be under Philaret

20 October

Most Orthodox Christians Support Decision to Sever Communion with Constantinople - Patriarch Kirill

Statement of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

19 October

Delegation of the ROC attends “Bridges of Peace” meeting in Bologna

18 October

President Dodon Proposes Hosting Pan-Orthodox Council in Moldova

Century-old Ukrainian Chapel Destroyed to Build Church for Schismatics

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