Continued from (Part VII) The Iconostasis. The most prominent feature of an Orthodox church is the Iconostasis, consisting of one...
Continued from (Part VI) 2. The Church Building and its Servers. External Arrangement. Orthodox churches generally take one of several...
September 14 The Exaltation of the Cross is one of the twelve great feasts in the yearly Church cycle. It...
Continued from (Part V) Other Orthodox Communities in America. Albanian. Albanian Orthodox immigrants had been arriving in America for some...
The complete islamization of the Muslim world in process… In its 10th pastoral letter, the Council of Catholic Patriarchs of...
Continued from (Part IV) Orthodoxy in America. In the 18th Century, the great Orthodox Christian missionary work which began with...
Continued from (Part III) World Orthodoxy Today. Constantinople. The Patriarchate of Constantinople again, at least nominally, became independent after World...
Continued from (Part II) Notable Fathers of the Early Period. St. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage († 258). St. Cyprian, commemorated...
The anonymous writer at the marvelous French-language blog Moinillon au quotidien offers the following points of reflection on children and...
Continued from (Part I) Other Apostles. St. Barnabas. St. Barnabas, a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of...
The Holy Orthodox Church: Her Life and Teaching Compiled and edited by a monk of the St. Tikhon’s Monastery Preface....
… the warriors who take part in this unseen war are all who are Christians; and their commander is our...
In one of the Sunday Gospel readings we hear the parable of the Royal Son’s wedding feast. In a direct...
The Elder Porfyrios proved himself an anatomist and healer of both the human soul and human spiritual relations.He said to...
Connecticut’s 5th Century Church by John Gallager In the stillness of Cockaponset State Forest, southern Connecticut, near the town of...
On my own accord as a little boy I used to walk about a mile to the Baptist church that...
“He who mocks the poor, blasphemes his Maker (Creator)” (Proverbs 17:5). If you are wealthy, in what are you wealthy,...
“And it came to pass in the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord seated upon a high and...
In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Today we are keeping the Feast of the...
By Fr. Eric George Tosi Chairman of the Department of Evangelization Source: St. Paul the Apostle Orthodox Church There...
