Our Faith

Strugglers Will Be Saved

05 April 2009

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 ...

A Call for Liturgical RenewalThe Liturgical Effectiveness of Pews

25 March 2009

admin

Are pews, which we borrowed not so very long ago from the Protestants and the Roman Catholics (who borrowed them from the Protestants) a liturgical accretion without consequences? Or, do pews (and ...

Reclaiming the Gospel

18 March 2009

Archpriest Paul Yerger

It is quite obvious from the weak participation in our liturgical services and in the personal lives of some members, that Orthodoxy is often failing to meet the spiritual needs of our people — in ...

How to Think About Love and Grow In It—Part I

16 March 2009

admin

The real meaning of the context in which we are using the word "love" becomes immediately apparent when we can distinguish between love and desire. To say that love is desire, or to love is ...

On the Importance of Prayer

15 March 2009

Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

We are often very successful at learning highly complex subject-matters, mastering very sophisticated skills, and becoming experts in our area of work or study. Yet, when it comes to prayer, too ...

He Who Conquered with Love (In memory of Metropolitan Laurus)

15 March 2009

Reader Alexey Axyonov

Suddenly I felt “it was good for me to be there”, my heart started singing with joy, feeling peaceful. At the same time I realized that the reason and the source of this joy was this laconic old man ...

Mental Imagery in Eastern Orthodox Private Devotion

12 March 2009

Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

Unlike Roman Catholicism, the Orthodox Tradition does not encourage the use of mental imagery. In fact, it almost appears to forbid sensory imagination during prayer altogether. In the words of one ...

A Pastor’s Thoughts on Confession and Communion

09 March 2009

natalya_mihailova

Every pastor in the Orthodox Church struggles with how often to expect the Sacrament of Confession from those in his parish who regularly approach the chalice. People years ago went to Communion once ...

Previous 1 … 239 240 241 242 243 … 260 Next

News

30 September

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill Contracted the Coronavirus

4th Plenary Session between ROC and Coptic Church Held

29 September

His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon Calls for Prayer for Those Facing Hurricanes Ian and Fiona

28 September

Patriarch Kirill: The Church Prays for the Fraternal Strife to End as Soon as Possible

Besides intellectual instruction, young people also need prayer, Patriarch Daniel says as new academic year begins

27 September

The Synodal Residence in New York hosts the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

Voluntary Blood Donation Takes Place in Churches in Serbia

26 September

The work of the Church in society is quiet, but full of hope and love, says the Director of Lumina Publications

25 September

Epistle of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

23 September

“The models par excellence are the great hesychast saints,” says Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Oradea

Other media

The Word of the Day

How to Deal with Sin

Ramblings of a Redneck Priest

Party Etiquette

Praying in the Rain

Humility By Accident