Fasting

Life is Different During Great Lent

Life is Different During Great Lent

04 March 2009

Archpriest Peter Jackson

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 ...

About Great Lent (Part I)

About Great Lent (Part I)

03 March 2009

Protodeacon Andrei Kuraev

The Creator gave people a great gift – the gift of anger. Remember this: “God of anger and sorrow”? Thus anger or hate is a gift. It performs the same function in a man’s soul that immunity does in a ...

If Church Were Our Job

01 March 2009

Archpriest Geoffrey Korz

As we begin Great Lent, it is helpful to call to mind the story of the man who objected to his priest that the lives of the saints - all-night vigils, perpetual fasting, and sleeping for only a few ...

Forgiveness Sunday

28 February 2009

Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

Forgiveness is not the same as finding excuses for the actions of another. Making up excuses for the actions of another person is not forgiveness, but judgment, thinly veiled with a search for ...

Great Lenten Epistle of Bishop Alexander of Buenos Aires and South America

28 February 2009

Bishop Alexander (Mileant)

It's useful to remember here the story of how two women came to confession to a famous ascetic elder. The first of them was burdened by one terrible sin, for which her conscience troubled her ...

Great Lent

28 February 2009

Priest John Parker

Lent is a time for us to venture out of our living rooms and comfort zones, to move away from the television, to suspend the mail-order DVDs and endless, mindless video games in order to worship God, ...

The Science of Forgiveness

28 February 2009

Archpriest Andrew Harrison

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 ...

To Care for the Heart

28 February 2009

Archpriest Stephen Freeman

It is of the greatest sadness that our modern world has come to think of forgiveness in largely forensic, that is legal, terms. Either a person is guilty or innocent. If I have offended a person I ...

Forgiveness Sunday Our Reunion as People, Family Church

27 February 2009

Archpriest Thaddaeus Hardenbrook

When we approach Forgiveness Vespers, many times we look forward to the joy and lightness of the mutual love and forgiveness exchanged there. But sometimes there are attempts to block our path. “It’s ...

The Sunday of the Dread Judgment

The Sunday of the Dread Judgment

21 February 2009

Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

The way to damnation is surprisingly simple: every time a man turns away from God and toward a television set, silences the voice of conscience and knowingly chooses sin, walks past someone in need, ...

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