Far from being a day of sorrow, the Ascension is a feast of joy and eager anticipation. We cannot think of the Ascension without remembering that Christ is returning to the Father to pour the Holy ...
By encountering the Slavic people through their own culture and language, they were able to win their love and trust and evangelize them. They did not impose foreign languages or strange customs upon ...
We are thus reminded that being “insiders” and members of Christ's Church in no way guarantees our salvation.
It may not be as pronounced as it is in the Roman Catholic Church, but the Orthodox Church also has the notion of the "seal of confession". That is to say, it believes that the confessor is ...
Man, as priest of creation, is not called to dominate creation, nor even to merely take care of it, but to offer it back to God. In this way, creation becomes far more than the means of man’s ...
Sometimes people come to Confession purely to discuss their spiritual development, but again this misses the point of Confession as the Sacrament of Repentance. Perhaps some people do this because ...
It is therefore the prayer of a murderer and adulterer that the celebrant of the Liturgy recites (and makes his own in prayer) as he prepares for the Holy Oblation. For sin lies not only in our ...
