The years went by, and the neophyte ardor cooled down imperceptibly. I learnt much about fasting, read intelligent, profound books, was no longer afraid of labels with egg powder, and my mother no ...
Most of us realize that prayer, fasting, and almsgiving are the three basic Christian and lenten necessities, but we often realize as well that we cannot keep the strictest lenten regulations of the ...
After all, the citizens of Jerusalem also wanted simple human happiness and completely reasonable things: freedom from the Roman occupiers, religious and national freedom, bread, and life for ...
Time and time again, over the centuries, it is to the writings of St. Gregory that the Church has turned in order to correctly understand how monastics and married, monasteries and parishes, are all ...
During this Lenten season it is common to talk about spiritual matters: how to fast, what to eat and what not to eat, how to pray, how many prostration to make... And this is fine and should really ...
But it is just as possible to burden yourself with easy food too. Try not to get obsessed with it. Also, there is no need to look for the abundant special fast recipes on the Internet. Perhaps one ...
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 ...
Believe it or not, part of the idea of fasting is to give us more time to dedicate to coming to services. If we are eating less, we should be doing less cooking and shopping, and thus have much more ...
On forgiveness Sunday the Orthodox Church prescribes that we ritually forgive each other. If all that we do at this service is ritually forgive by going through the motions, our ritual is empty. How ...
