5. Beginning the God Pleasing Lent
With
God’s help we are beginning the Great Lent. We have to start to work on
ourselves, to set our thoughts in order. Our inner man should restore. All our
thoughts and feelings are devastated, tangled and crushed by the sin. How can
we live in such a condition and say that we are Christians?...READ FULL ARTICLE
4. Excerpts from Sermons: God Granted Us
a New Life
Often we
think that the Church is something external, like an organization, an
institution or a building. In fact, the Church is a new way of living, in which
God unites with us. We all become the body of Christ, and get the eternal life
in this union…READ FULL ARTICLE
3. Three Helpful Principles of Fasting
You ask
about guidelines for fasting and whether all the rules you have read about
amount to legalism. I will try to answer you as best as I can…READ FULL ARTICLE
2. Surviving the Great Lent... and
flourishing
Most of
us remember days in our life that have been so packed with activity that we
skip breakfast, lunch, or dinner - or even all three. As a result, we can end
up functioning for a whole day or more, depleted of energy, lethargic, or
depressed…READ FULL ARTICLE
1. The Who's Who of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete
As we
approach Great Lent, the time given to us specifically for repentance, the
Church gives us a whole host of images to help us. St. John of Kronstadt
teaches that: “Imagery or symbols are a necessity of human nature in our
presently spiritually sensual condition; they explain [by the vision] many
things belonging to the spiritual world which we could not know without images
and symbols”…READ FULL ARTICLE
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