Are the Orthodox About to Change Communion?

…  novel coronavirus pandemic has certainly disrupted liturgical life in the Orthodox …  no longer tenable, despite the challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic. What, then, have primates or synods said on the matter …  liturgical, and pastoral activities during the coronavirus pandemic. The document insists that Holy Communion is for the …

Hades is Embittered

In the great Paschal Homily of St. John Chrysostom, we hear the golden-mouthed preacher say this about the encounter of Christ with Hades (or Hell): He embittered it when it tasted of His flesh. And Isaiah, foretelling this, did cry: Hell, said he, …