Rating: 7,3|Votes: 6

Prostrations at the Liturgy

Fr. John Whiteford

In the Orthodox Church, we make prostrations, or full bows to the ground, as part of our prayer life. Sometimes, prostrations are made even during the Divine Liturgy. But there are certain rules about this, and these rules are also subject to local practice. Fr. John Whiteford discusses a general practice concerning when prostrations are made at the Liturgy.

Rating: 9,7|Votes: 3

Mentally Deranging Power of Rock-and-Roll

Bishop Alexander (Mileant)

"Every day kids identify who they are by their rock stars. Their heroes influence their values. And their values influence who they are. Today’s young people don’t listen to rock music, they experience it. It is their identity".

Rating: 4,5|Votes: 4

St. Paul's only Friends in Athens: St. Dionysius the Areopagus and Damaris

Excerpt from H. V. Morton's, In the Steps of St. Paul

Henry Vollam Morton

Yet history has shown that Christianity has never been more triumphant than in apparent failure. The seeds had been sown. Paul could not know, as he gazed up at the temples on the Acropolis, that the day would come when the mighty Parthenon would be consecrated as a Christian Church dedicated to the Mother of God.

Rating: 2|Votes: 1

St. Gregory Palamas: The Gospel is Innate to Us

On Luke 6:31-36

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Though I have heard many arguments in favor of a literal interpretation of Scripture, rarely have I found biblical literalists to focus their read of Scripture on Christ’s commandments in Luke 6:31-36:

Rating: 4,4|Votes: 13

Some Miracles of Saints Cyprian and Justina

Commemorated October 2/15

When people want their desires fulfilled without God, because these desires are ungodly, they have in times turned to the devil through magicians and sorcerers. Here are examples of help from Sts. Cyprian and Justina in nineteen century Russia and twentieth century Greece.