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

How the Holy Light Descends Upon the Holy Sepulchre

Russian Abbot Daniil

May the blessing of God, of the Holy Sepulchre, and of all the holy places be with those who read this narrative with faith and love; and may they obtain from God the same reward as those who have made the pilgrimage to those holy places. Happy are those who, having seen, believe! Thrice happy are those who have not seen, and yet have believed!

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Does the Old Testament Endorse Slavery?

Fr. John Whiteford

Some ask, doesn't the fact that the Old Testament has laws that allow for slavery constitute an endorsement of slavery? Fr. John Whiteford discusses the Old Testament and slavery.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Orthodoxy is a Way of Life

A talk with Marilyn Swezey, the secretary of Bishop Basil (Rodzianko)

My interviewee has had an extremely interesting and unusual life for an American woman. Charming, intelligent, she looks some 15 years younger than she really is. And behind her there is a long life full of the hard labors of a noble, self-sacrificing person who seeks to see Divine providence in every turn of her life. Here she is: secretary of Bishop Basil (Vasily) Rodzianko, assistant to Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen), an expert in the Russian literature and arts, honorable parishioner of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Marilyn Pfeifer Swezey.

[English Edition / Church History]

The Travelling Hand: A 17th century royal martyr, Portuguese friars, a ruined Augustine church and a search that stretched on for over 25 years

Srinath Perur

The queen’s post-mortem travels may not be finished yet. Talks are on between the governments of India and Georgia, and who knows, it may not be long before Queen Ketevan’s travelling hand finally reaches home, 400 years after she left for Shiraz.

[English Edition / Church History]

Ramblings Of An Orthodox Hospice Shepherd

Alexandr Cvejkus

I awoke today with the remembrance of Archimandrite Cyprian in my head. For those who are unfamiliar with the name, Archimandrite Cyprian was the world famous iconographer of Jordanville.

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

On the Revival of the Veneration of Local Western Saints in the Orthodox Church

Answers to Questions in Recent Correspondence

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

The other question that I asked myself was why there were no longer any saints, no new saints, only these ancient ones. The source of holiness had clearly dried up. No-one was interested in holiness any more. We now lived in a different Civilization, with different values, alien to me. Why?

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

Defending the Synodikon

Fr. Lawrence Farley

The point of the Synodikonis to draw very thick lines in the doctrinal sand and say that if anybody in the Church crosses those lines and strays into heresy, they must either recant or get out, and it is precisely this approach to truth that is necessary and saving.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Why Do We Use Communion Spoons?

Fr. John Whiteford

In the Orthodox Church, Holy Communion is administered to communicants using a special spoon. Some have asked, doesn’t the 101st canon of the Council of Trullo forbid the use of Communion spoons? And why are the laity not allowed to receive Communion in the hand and from the chalice, as they did at the time of the Ecumenical Councils? Fr. John Whiteford answers these questions about the use of Communion spoons in our Orthodox Liturgy.

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

The Sunday of St Gregory Palamas

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

Why do we fast? Why do we make sacrifices? Why do we stand at long services? Why do we pray? To those of us who are beginning to doubt and waver after only two weeks of the Fast, the Church brings us an answer today.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Archbishop Joachim of Beroun: “Slavic peoples should stay together”

Archbishop Joachim of Beroun (the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia) talks about the life of this Local Orthodox Church, the difficulties it is faced with, the cooperation among the Slavic Churches and the destructiveness of schisms.

[English Edition / Church History]

“The Miraculous Icon of Our Lady of Sitka” Lecture

Fr. John Kowalczyk

On March 20, 2016, the Very Reverend John Kowalczyk, pastor of St. Michael’s Orthodox Church in Jermyn, PA delivered a lecture at Villanova University’s Connelly Center. The lecture is entitled "The Miraculous Icon of Our Lady of Sitka,” and is the first presentation in the Alaskan Exhibition Lecture Series:

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

Homily: The Tradition of Witness, the Witness of Desire

Rev. Gregory Jensen

But what we profess is not a philosophy, even if (in the hands of some) it has become an ideology. What we profess is not mere history. What we profess is human history transformed and transfigured to become Holy Tradition, the Voice of the Holy Spirit leading the Church from generation to generation.

[English Edition / Church and State]

Orthodox Churches clearly expressed their attitude to Ukrainian schismatics. Did Philaret understand?

Tamar Lomidze

Forgetting Christ’s commandments, embracing ethnophyletism, giving preference to a Caesar, serving Mammon—all of these are symptoms of a serious disease that has affected schismatics of the so-called “Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate” as a result of their falling away from Orthodoxy.

[English Edition / Church History]

On This Day: Last Russian Emperor Nicholas II Abdicated the Crown

Paul Gilbert

Nicholas II announced that ‘… for the sake of Russia I was ready to abdicate the crown in favor of my son but … came to the conclusion that in view of his illness I should abdicate for myself and for him too’.

[English Edition / Church History]

Tertullian and the Dangers of the Sectarian Mind-Set

Dr. David Ford

In our own times, with the Church's increased communications with other Christian confessions, including the recent meeting between Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and Pope Francis, and also considering the upcoming Pan-Orthodox Council which will speak to the Orthodox Church's stance in relation to other confessions, the temptation to adopt a sectarian mind-set is as strong as ever. To be sure, defense of Orthodoxy is necessary and blessed, but always with humility and love.

[English Edition / Church History]

Matthew: Date and Authorship

Seraphim Hamilton

The consensus understanding of St. Matthew’s Gospel is that it was composed anonymously at around 85 AD. There is no evidence for this, but it is the consensus. The arguments in favor of an early Matthean authorship are laid out herein.

[English Edition / Theology]

In Defense of Western Rite Orthodoxy

A Deacon of the Orthodox Church

In recent years, some Orthodox jurisdictions in the United States and Great Britain have accepted whole parishes that converted from Anglicanism or Catholicism to Orthodoxy. These few parishes have the unique distinction of providing Orthodox services in the "Western Rite"—high Church services somewhat rewritten to adapt to the Orthodox cycle of services. A deacon of the Orthodox Church, Eastern Rite speaks in defense of this practice.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

The World Loves its Own

St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

Concerning the truth and harmony between the teachings of the Fathers of the Eastern Church and Holy Scripture, and about the false direction of the ascetics of the Western Church and their writings.

[English Edition / Church History]

Were David and Jonathan Gay? A Critical Analysis of a Popular Assumption

Eric Jobe

There are any number of problems with this idea, but I want to offer a critical perspective on the issue in order to demonstrate that such an idea is not one that can be legitimately advanced from the realm of critical scholarship.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

His Grace Bishop John of Caracas and South America: My Challenge is to Heal the Schism and Return the Flock and Our Churches

What did our ancestors do to deserve such reverence, how will parish life change in the next 20 years, what problems are being faced today by Orthodox Christians in Latin America? These were the topics discussed by Bishop John.

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