Patron Saint Slavas: Confusing the Serbs?
For those who come to the Orthodox Faith as adults, often amid families who are outside the Church or even hostile to it, the idea of a special family feast day marking the date of entry into the...
View ArticleScotland the Brave
The Cross of Saint Andrew - the blue and white emblem of Scotland's patron saint - is believed to be the oldest continuously used flag in the world. Simple in its design, it has withstood centuries of...
View ArticleAnswering Main Street
We offer you an article written by Fr. Geoffrey Korz, Managing Editor of Orthodox Canada and the Dean of All Saints of North America Orthodox Church in Hamilton ON, Canada. Some years ago, I had the...
View ArticleWe Have Complete Freedom – and That’s the Challenge
The Saints repeatedly tell us that each of us has complete freedom in our choices to respond to God, or to reject Him. It is strange then, that in our modern day, we have become almost enslaved to the...
View ArticleWhat Orthodox Families Must Do to Keep the Kids Orthodox
It is common in Orthodox parishes to find faithful people asking, why aren’t more kids coming to church? It’s an important question, since it raises two deeper issues: firstly, where will the Church in...
View ArticleHow Should I Pray?
It seems like a simple thing, yet one of the most frequent questions raised by Orthodox Christians is the basic question, how should I pray? Every Orthodox Christian should have a daily rule of prayer,...
View ArticleSt. Brendan’s Journey & Immigration
The sixth-century Orthodox monk, Saint Brendan, was perhaps the first Orthodox Christian to set foot on Canadian soil, and as such, is the first of the saints of North America. Saint Brendan is known...
View ArticleFaith in Everyday Life: A Practical Guide
Many people experience a disconnect between their faith and their "secular" life. Yet faithful people recognize that, just because we are outside the church temple, our Christian life does not stop,...
View ArticleTradition and the Spirit of the Times
Perhaps the greatest struggle for the Orthodox Christian in our times is acquiring the mind of the Fathers - not just ancient Church fathers, but those throughout the centuries who have testified to...
View ArticleScotland the Brave
Celtic Christian worship was in most ways very similar to the life of Orthodox parishes today. What is very clear, Celtic Christians had far less in common with the free-wheeling nature worship one...
View ArticleSaturday Night Fever?
Spending Saturday evening - or more specifically, one part of Saturday evening - at a Vespers or Vigil Service, prepares Orthodox Christians for the central Holy Mystery of our lives: Holy Communion.
View ArticleOn the Time and Place of Confession
God doesn't ask everything of us, but He does ask something: that we take part in the spiritual struggle against the tendencies so strongly reinforced in our age of hedonism, and prepare ourselves like...
View ArticleKeep Christ in Christmas … by Removing Gifts?
First of all: DON’T PANIC. This article is not an attempt to suggest that you or your children should go without gifts or gift-giving this Christmas. Quite the opposite. Gift-giving has for centuries...
View ArticleThe Nativity Icon
It was not until the bitter dispute over the Arian heresy that the Nativity of Christ was instituted as an independent Feast Day. The physical birth of our Lord becomes the principal issue in the...
View ArticleWhy Does Our Faith Fail? The Answer Can Be Found In Marriages, Businesses
Just as marriages and businesses make the same mistakes over and over again, so too can we as individuals when trying to put our faith into practice.
View ArticleVirtual Orthodoxy: Living a Myth
The main point is this: If our Orthodox faith is not actually lived out and strengthened by the holy services, it is nothing more than fakery and self-deception.
View ArticleSurviving Great Lent – and Flourishing
Without physical food, we can soon find ourselves physically drained. Without spiritual food, the effects are not always immediately visible - but they are much longer lasting and far-reaching.
View ArticleAll In God’s Time
A priest I knew once said that it was never appropriate to have a clock in the altar: we should keep liturgical time based on the schedule of Heaven.
View ArticleHas Nothing Changed?: On the End of Great Lent
How can we redeem the failures of our spiritual life as Christians? Where can we find hope amid the broken pieces of a Christian life, half-lived?
View ArticleAfter the Fast
In the post-Lenten season, we are blessed if our lives have been changed, and can return to that place we have left behind at the Fall: Paradise, and communion with Christ. The very same tools which...
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