So, in Lent, let us treat our use of the internet in such a manner that we seek to be ascetic in how often we engage in online conversations. We should begin by posting and commenting less. This ...
On Thursday of the First Week of Lent, during Great Compline, after Psalm 69, the Canon is sung. The Eirmosi are sung twice, at the beginning and end of each Song. Before each Troparion we make the ...
What exactly are we trying to accomplish during Great Lent? Is it simply to attend services and change our diet? Or are these a means to an end? If so, what is that end? 'Orthodoxy and the ...
Everything we do in the Church (and by ‘in the Church’, I don’t just mean the building but in communion with one another) is predicated on the goal of our salvation and what we understand by that ...
I had to apologize to someone Sunday night. In fact, I had to apologize to about a hundred people--one at a time, face to face. It was great. For Orthodox Christians, Lent begins differently than it ...
By the way, I would greatly recommend for those who do not yet know the Church canons well enough – try coming to Church on other days during the Great Fast, apart from Sundays and Saturdays. If ...
We all agree on some things: on the importance of icons, for example, rooted as they are in the doctrine of the incarnation. I believe we also agree that Orthodoxy is meant to permeate the whole of ...
You know, Orthodoxy represents a giant world, which absorbs many different things. There’s an incredible mystique: Orthodoxy has no limits, no “ceiling” – I mean an obstacle for going up. Remember ...
Taking up our cross may mean taking up whatever life presents us with and bearing it with humility and obedience, in union with Christ, as our sharing in the one perfect offering that Christ has ...
The Creator gave people a great gift – the gift of anger. Remember this: “God of anger and sorrow”? Thus anger or hate is a gift. It performs the same function in a man’s soul that immunity does in a ...
