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Prayer for the Dead

27 April 2009

Therefore, we see panikhidas and prayer at home for the dead are beneficial for them, as are good deeds done in their memory, such as alms or contributions to the church. But especially beneficial ...

Why We Pray For The Dead

27 April 2009

Priest David F. Abramtsov

Just as we love and respect our living brethren, so do we love and respect those of our brethren who have departed this life. We express our love for our departed friends and relatives through ...

On How to Treat Others

26 April 2009

N.E.Pestov

People who are near you - that’s where you must toil. They are your grain field, your plot bestowed by God for you to cultivate. A person’s soul should be approached with care as if it was a ...

Break the Holy Bread, Master: A Theology of Communion Bread

15 April 2009

(Reidman) Schema-Archimandrite Avraam

In the sacral life of the Church, we may speak not only of natural bonds between humans, not only of the “gluten” inherent to humans and coming from within them, but also of the leaven of the Holy ...

The Service of Holy Unction

14 April 2009

(Reidman) Schema-Archimandrite Avraam

In receiving the sacrament of Holy Unction on this, the eve of Holy Thursday, we do much more than petition God to heal us of body and soul that we may enjoy the good things of this worldly life. We ...

The Course of Forbearance for the Orthodox Christian

08 April 2009

Archpriest Dmitriy Karpenko

A sincere but inexperienced person begins to believe that the thoughts of this or that Christian or even a priest is the truth said by God. If you do not react quickly to this delusion you run the ...

Living Liturgy: the Liturgical Method of the Fathers

07 April 2009

The Deacon says to all present, “In the fear of God and with faith, draw near!” and Eucharistic participation is expected from all—if not in fact, then at least in theory. (The Fathers, being ...

Strugglers Will Be Saved

05 April 2009

Archpriest Alexei Uminsky

The usual compromise that people choose of how to confess one's sins is a sort of a question-answer confession, which might as well be used for a "how to repent" manual. The penitent ...

Preparing for Confession

02 April 2009

Often, when children play in competitive games, one will call out “that’s a do over!” Haven’t we all, at more than one time in our lives, wished for that chance to undo the past and start over? This ...

Communion is not a Reward for “Good Behavior”

26 March 2009

Maria Abushkina

Average Americans do not know much about Orthodoxy, as a rule. They treat it as a sort of exotic, ethnic version of Catholicism. There are a lot of various confessions and streams of Christianity ...

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