Hieromonk Athanasius (Deryugin)
All these hymns—“Now the Powers of Heaven”, the Cherubic Hymn, and “Let all mortal flesh keep silence”—remind us that the Heavenly Powers participate in worship with us.
Alexei Tereshchenko
Growth of Bible sales in the West is a symptom of a great thirst. It is the sign that spiritual hunger cannot be satisfied by any visible sweetness of the world.
Fr. Peter Heers
Today, it's time to discuss economia.
Nun Kallista (Golik)
The daily cycle of services is, one might say, the “liturgical clock” the Church has lived by day after day for many centuries. The daily cycle took shape in monasteries, though there was a time when laymen observed it daily as well.
Theophan Casad
I became certain that it is truly very difficult for an Orthodox person to reside in the USA and Denmark. It’s basically the same as if you swim against the tide of society.
Alexey Tereshchenko
The modern Western world has built a system in which there is simply no place for Christ. Laws written supposedly for the sake of “safety” and “tolerance,” in fact, have created a cage into which the Truth does not fit.
If you know at least a little bit about how Church worship is organized, any “average” parishioner burdened with work and family duties can add some elements of the Church’s worship to his home rule and thus be able to stay in the rhythm of the Church.
Nun Cornelia (Rees)
Fr. Joseph Gleason is an Orthodox priest from rural Illinois who moved with his wife and eight children to Rostov the Great, Russia. How has his family adapted, what is it like for them in Russia, and what he would advise others who are contemplating a similar relocation—these are the topics of our conversation.
Fares Abraham
Christian leaders in Israel declare that Christian Zionism is putting the church in danger.
Dmitry Zlodorev
Many young Americans are searching for guidance and sanity in an increasingly chaotic world. By God’s grace, they discover the Orthodox Church—a place that is not afraid to speak the truth. And they are drawn to it.
Sergei Mudrov
Orthodoxy is actually one of the three faiths, whose representatives have the right to teach the foundations of their faith at secondary schools.
Hieromonk Chrisostomus (Filipescu)
If he’s fat—he’s a glutton; if he’s thin—a penny pincher.
Bishop Theodosius (Ivashchenko)
At the moment, a man or woman seeking to pray in an Orthodox Church in Ukraine may be violently driven out of it during divine services with batons and tear gas. One risks being beaten, poisoned, or prevented from entering because schismatics seized the church during the night and changed the locks.
Archimandrite Epiphanios (Theodoropoulos)
If the Greeks passed on Christianity to others, they were repaying a debt, not rendering a service—for who first brought Christianity to them? Was it not Paul, a Jew? Why then do we speak only of the service of the Greeks? And finally, if Christianity was written in the Greek language simply because it was widely known, that fact lays upon the Greeks an obligation, not a privilege!
Conrad Franz
In this part of our interview, Conrad Franz talks about his own path to Orthodoxy, Orthodox media, the demographics of the Church in the US, and the conversion blooming deep in the heart of Texas.
Priest Tarasiy Borozenets
Any technology is subject to moral evaluation: does it destroy human dignity, substitute living relations, or infringe on the freedom of the personality?
Metropolitan Saba (Isper)
Today's pastoral reality clearly shows that families are coming to the faith at a rate equal to, if not greater than, that of single men.
Jesse Dominick
The 84-year-old elder, who holds a doctorate in history, receives regular information about the situation in Ukraine through the Union of Orthodox Journalists.
I came to love going to services on this holiday, and then going to visit my closest friends—this tradition appeared by itself.
Very Rev. Fr. Vladimir Vranic
True primacy must be exercised in the spirit of the Eucharist—as service, not control; as love, not jurisdiction.
