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[English Edition / Theology]

What is the Church?

W. J. Lillie

What is the Church? What does the Church express? How is the unity of the Church expressed? What is the content of the unity and universality of the Church? What does the expression ‘the visible unity of the Church’ mean in the context of the Ecumenical Movement and what does this involve?

[English Edition / Theology]

On Psalm 50

Fr. John Whiteford

Is Psalm 50 a Messianic psalm? Why does the psalm culminate in animal sacrifice? How should we incorporate this psalm in our daily prayers? Fr. John Whiteford talks about one of the most often-read psalms.

[English Edition / Theology]

Why do we address the Cross in prayer directly as if to a person?

Archpriest Andrew Nikolaidi

For many Orthodox Christians, beginning to explore the treasury of Christian prayer and trying to delve into the meaning of the prayers, upon reading the prayers to the Cross the question may arise: “Why do we address the Cross, the Wood, in prayer directly as if to a person?”

[English Edition / Theology]

On the special dedications of the seven days of the week: when and to whom to pray

Natalia Goroshkova, Archimandrite Nazary (Omelyanenko)

Every believer should go to church on Sundays in order to participate in the Divine Liturgy. Inasmuch as the Resurrection of Christ is the hope of all men we especially honor this day. It is best of all to spend this day after the Liturgy in charitable deeds: visiting the sick, helping those in need, and visiting the elderly. It would also behoove you on Sunday to devote a few hours to reading the Holy Scriptures and saying some prayers.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

“He sought the most important thing—prayerful union with God”

Elder Iliy on St. Silouan the Athonite and the importance of prayer

Olga Orlova, Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin)

Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin), spiritual father of His Holiness, ascetically struggled on Mt. Athos for more than ten years in one of the sketes of St. Panteleimon Monastery—the Old Russikon. Namely there, at the mill just a few decades earlier Venerable Silouan the Athonite carried out his obedience. In 1967 the book of his life and teachings became a spiritual guide for the now-revered elder, then novice Alexei of the Pskov Caves Monastery

[English Edition / Theology]

Preconditions for Orthodox Participation in the Holy Mysteries

Elder Joseph of Xeropotamou

As all of us should know, and hopefully do know, that just because we are formally Orthodox does not mean we have the right to participate in the Sacraments, or Mysteries, of the Church, but rather, there are preconditions to participation—that is, we are called to prepare ourselves to receive grace and meet the Lord through these Mysteries.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Way of All Flesh—What happens to the soul after death

Part 1

Archpriest Oleg Stenyayev

Why is earthly life is so valuable to us? What does a soul experience as it separates from the body? What are the aerial tollhouses? What is life, and what is death in the Orthodox understanding? These are the topics of a series of talks with Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev, which we will be translating for our English language readers.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

On Suicide

Nun Barbara (Khopovo)

Father John of Kronstadt once said: "If anyone should see a departed person in a dream or while awake (the latter case is extremely rare), then he must read the Psalter or the Holy Gospel for the repose of this person for forty days. He must light at least the smallest wax candle for the repose of the soul of the departed and pray for him until the candle burns out. If a person is busy and cannot pray for long, then he may do so piecemeal, by day or by night."

[English Edition / Theology]

Byzantine Creation Era Calendar

According to the Church's calendar, developed during the Byzantine period and based on Biblical chronologies, September 1/14 marks the beginning of the ecclesiastical year. Specifically, September 1/14, 2016 marks the beginning of the year 7525 from the creation of the world, God having created 5509 years before the Nativity of Christ.

[English Edition / Theology]

Creation and Freedom

Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon

For St. Gregory the Theologian, the significance of freedom does not lie in a mere possibility among choices but in the potential for a transformed and transfigured life.

[English Edition / Theology]

Apocalyptic Angels and Unworthy Servants

A Discourse on the Sacrament of the Priesthood

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

The priest is the apocalyptic angel of the Lord God Almighty, and, beholding our preceptors, holy and pious pastors, we, modern priests, are summoned in unity with the hierarchy our own hearts to edify, and human souls to heal, not for the sake of filthy lucre, not for the sake of vainglory, but to the glory of the Lord, Who, gazing upon us from Golgotha’s Cross, Divine strength gives us to bear the candle of the priesthood unto our victorious end.

[English Edition / Theology]

Wait a minute, NPR: Catholics are the only Christians who seek the help of the saints?

Terry Mattingly

When you walk into any Orthodox sanctuary you are surrounded by sacred art of the saints – icons, or "windows into heaven." Orthodox worship is full of prayers to God, to Jesus and to the Holy Spirit, as well as prayers asking St. Mary the Theotokos (the "God-bearer") and the saints to join with the worshipers in appeals for God's mercy and healing.

[English Edition / Theology]

Why must a church have an iconostasis and curtain over the Royal Doors?

Fr. Andrei Chizhenko

In an Orthodox church there is no thing or action which does not carry meaning of spiritual weight. Even the iconostasis and curtain over the Royal Doors are full-fledged “participants” in the Divine services.

[English Edition / Theology]

Man in Creation: The Cosmology of St. Maximus the Confessor

Jesse Dominick

The theology of creation and salvation in Orthodox Christianity upholds the centrality and kingship of mankind while simultaneously embracing a cosmological vision that is largely absent in western Christendom. A common characteristic of all creation is corruption and death, and yet we are told that God is not the author of death, and that all of creation awaits its redemption through the revealing of the saints, when all of heaven and earth will be united to God. Within this framework, St. Maximus the Confessor is recognized as a theological and spiritual giant by the Orthodox Church. In his two troparia he is hailed as an “enlightener of the universe” and a “herald of the faith.”

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The cause of our misfortunes, troubles, and sufferings: our sins

Before the fall of our first ancestors, mankind was happy: living in Paradise in close union with God and showing child-like devotion and obedience to Him, they were in need of nothing, suffered from nothing, and were fully satisfied with life. Living in happiness, man openly poured out his soul before God with childlike love, receiving Divine help from Him for his development. Man knew neither sickness nor death. All of man's happiness was because he was close to God and God was with him. As a loving father, God appeared in Paradise and conversed with man, as with good, obedient children. All of the surrounding nature was subject to man, as to its king, as the image of the Creator Himself.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Anointing His Lambs with Oil and Wine

A Discourse on the Sacrament of Holy Unction

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

The priests, one after the other read prayers that the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, invisibly serving this Mystery by the hands of the clerics, according to our faith might touch His healing finger to the soul and body of those afflicted, deliver from all sorts of ailments spiritual and bodily, raise up in us a spirit of peace, vigor, joy, and strength, make our bodies into instruments of the creative will of God, sanctify our consciences and make peaceful our hearts.

[English Edition / Theology]

Jesus Christ: The Universal Person

Georgios I. Mantzaridis

The problem constantly faced by man is how to achieve fulfilment as an individual in a peaceful and united world: how to make room in his heart for all other men, and how to rejoice in the presence of others. Christ reveals the solution to this problem. Man, however, usually makes a mess of his life and loses it, without realizing the strength that lies hidden within him.

[English Edition / Theology]

Self-Defense

Fr. John Whiteford

Some claim that Orthodoxy does not approve of self-defense or firearms specifically, specifically attacking the "take your purse and buy" a sword verse from Luke that is often used in support of armed Christian self-defense. Some even go so far as to say, or at least strongly imply, that Christians shouldn't kill in combat/war. What is the Orthodox Church's teaching regarding a Christian's right or ability to hurt or kill others in self-defense? As soldiers during war? What about defending one's family from violence?

[English Edition / Theology]

Where Do You Worship?

Fr. Lawrence Farley

Given that our worship takes place in heaven it is not surprising to see so many icons on the walls around us, nor that we ask for the prayers of the Mother of God and the saints and angels. Since we have ascended to heaven, we find ourselves invisibly surrounded by the saints who also stand with us in heaven’s court. With what else should be adorn our church walls and icon corners but their images?

[English Edition / Theology]

How Intercessory Prayer Works in Christ According to the Bible

Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon

Does the Bible tell us to go ‘directly to Jesus’, or is there something else it reveals about Christian intercessory prayer?

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