Our Faith

Prayer. Private and in Church.

07 July 2009

Today one can hear opinions such as it is better to pray by the prayer book and in the Church (because it is better to go by the way the Church shows us, rather than by the way that is invented by ...

What’s in a name? Sometimes, encouragement

06 July 2009

Priest Barnabas Powell

When my priest advised me, a few months before my conversion, to choose a patron, I asked for a complete list of every saint with a brief description. He suggested I reread my Bible and pick someone ...

The Garments of Salvation

02 July 2009

Krista M. West

All too often the liturgical garments of the Orthodox Church are simply taken for granted. They are a portion of our ecclesiastical tradition little understood and seldom considered by the laity. We ...

Living in the Liturgical Cycles of the Church

25 June 2009

Reader Daniel Olson

The Church sets before us the ideal of daily services, and in earlier times this was not just an ideal, but a norm; this was the standard practice of the Church. But in our time, and especially here ...

Orthodox Christians in the Workplace (Part II)

22 June 2009

Priest David Moser

In any work environment, there is informal interaction with coworkers in which almost every topic is discussed. Is it appropriate to "push" your own religion in these discussions, and how ...

Prayer: The Test of Everything

21 June 2009

In the Orthodox Church we are taught that the life of faith is dependent upon progress in prayer. Those who grow in the grace of God thus do so because their prayer is genuine, while those who “lose ...

Summer Reading

19 June 2009

Archpriest Thaddaeus Hardenbrook

Along with daily reading of the Scriptures, we should be reading books that motivate us spiritually in a way that is practical and applicable to our lives. The reading of spiritual works that are ...

What is Blessable As an Icon?

18 June 2009

Hieromonk Vladimir (Lysak)

One of the great difficulties that I believe the Orthodox Church has always had is control over her iconographers. More than ever, especially today, icons are being painted without understanding, and ...

How Often Should Orthodox Christians Receive Holy Communion?

15 June 2009

Archbishop Lazar Puhalo

If we search the canons which the Holy Spirit has given us through the Holy Church, and the teachings of our Holy and Godbearing fathers, then we will find that with one accord and as if with a ...

Orthodox Christians in the Workplace (Part I)

11 June 2009

Priest David Moser

Some of the practical conflicts have to do with the daily cycles of Church life: such things as fasting, prayer, and holy days. When we strive to keep the fast, it suddenly seems as though there is a ...

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26 September

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Epistle of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

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