The following is a general guideline for approaching the chalice. Bear in mind that small customs change from parish to parish but this is the historic practice of the Russian Church.It is appropriate for those that are able to come venerate the parish icons (at least the center festal icon) during the communion of the … [Read more…]
Dear Parents, I was looking through several articles about guidelines for children in the Orthodox parish in order to share them as a way to educate and support our own community. However, each parish is a unique family, just like all of your families are unique, and will run in a way that works best … [Read more…]
“Mothers, be specially careful to regulate your daughters well; for the management of them is easy. Be watchful over them, that they may be keepers at home. Above all, instruct them to be pious, modest, despisers of wealth, indifferent to ornament. In this way dispose of them in marriage. For if you form them in … [Read more…]
The Rite of Forgiveness On the evening of Forgiveness Sunday, we celebrate Forgiveness Vespers. After the dismissal at Vespers, the priest stands beside the analogion, or before the ambon, and the faithful come up one by one and venerate the icons, after which each makes a prostration before the priest, saying, “Forgive me, a sinner.” … [Read more…]
Blessing of Homes We, as Christians, are engaged in a struggle to reclaim fallen nature for the Kingdom of God. We often talk about this in terms of our own salvation, but the Church, addressing all of creation in a wholistic manner, also reaches out and reclaims a bit here and a bit there of … [Read more…]