It is impossible to understand the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts – its ritual, origin, and necessity – without love for the Mysteries and for the practice of frequent Communion. Say what you ...
Saturday or Sunday as a day devoted to God and family has given way to offering at best a few hours of each Saturday or Sunday. At worst, a “take it or leave it” approach whereby if worship can be ...
We know how it feels to be down-hearted. For some reason we may be sad and forlorn. We had been hurt by some event or person. Or maybe we are out of work, we failed an exam, or a blow to our pride ...
But wouldn't it be boring just to celebrate the resurrection 52 times a year? Wouldn't it just get routine? Wouldn't the resurrection of Christ Jesus cease to be special if you read ...
The real issue, however, is not one of obedience or disobedience to rules and regulations. If the Orthodox preserve the sanctity of the Eucharist as a supreme obligation, it is because of the often ...
More problematic is the fact that Orthodox Christians do so little reading of the Bible at home (there are exceptions, just enough to prove the rule). They have no idea of the context of a prescribed ...
It seems to me that the choice of Sunday for church school is not a very good one. Sunday is primarily a liturgical day; therefore, it should be Church-centered and Liturgy-centered. It would be far ...
