Celebrating Christ’s Ascension & Leaving Pascha
… the Paschal season, like all seasons (including someday Coronavirus season), comes to an end and we will soon stop singing Christ is …
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Contemplatives in Confinement: 3 Lessons Learned While Battling Coronavirus
… guest that hangs around for three to five days, the coronavirus is a squatter that moves into your home and decides to ransack the … recurs randomly. I mostly sat around like a slug. My coronavirus experience occurred during the first two weeks of May, when most …
“I Am The Bread of Life!”
… several times during the week as well. And since the Coronavirus pandemic, I’ve seen how so many people are missing regularly …
Contemplatives in Confinement: New Habits to Keep, Post-Pandemic
… more than I have in the past three years combined. The coronavirus has forced us into our homes and into each other’s paths. As our …
The Spiritual Benefits of the Pandemic
… the grocery store could put them in danger of getting the coronavirus. We can organize a distancing block party for the children of 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, …
190. Great and Holy Saturday Morning: Vesperal Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil
… Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-orthodox-holy-fire/holy-fire-lit-as-orthodox-easter-bells-echo-over- …
Being Faithful in Dark Times
… race has been Death. The lock down for the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic can be a time of anxious waiting. It reminds us of the …
A Time of Waiting, A Time of Hoping
… Orthodoxy will be celebrating Palm Sunday. The COVID19 (coronavirus) pandemic has impacted many of us directly or indirectly. The …
Contemplatives in Confinement: Be Careful What You Pray For
… it be a mere accident?” In our current season of coronavirus, unexpected circumstances are the new normal. With our activities … things. My hubby and I mostly work from home, and thus the coronavirus has not radically altered our daily schedules. Still, in addition …
Being in Communion: What Are you Afraid Of?
… Wolfe, who wrote a wonderful guest post about fear and the coronavirus. Here is Laura, in her own words: Laura E. Wolfe is the author … neurosis, but a wonderful gift of maturity. The new coronavirus has not changed that fact that you and I do not know the hour of …
The Best of Times
… away from the monastery, fearing they might introduce the coronavirus to the monks. Depriving themselves of the Holy Mysteries, they …
174. How to worship and pray at home: Let’s get focused
… neither close churches nor cancel services” due to the coronavirus. Over here, however, most Orthodox churches are for all intents …
Contemplatives in Confinement: Where Did My Digital Minimalism Go?
… and loss of the senses of smell and taste can be a sign of coronavirus. The Tokyo Olympics have been postponed. And Tom Hanks and Rita … to nurture my relationship with Him. Yet in this era of coronavirus my errands are limited, with no travel time to and from church. I …
Being in Communion: How to Create Culture during Coronavirus, part 1
… has descended upon the world. Creating Culture During Coronavirus I wanted to share some thoughts about how to create culture during …
The Coronavirus and the Cross of Christ
… to Orthodox Christians but also to the entire world: the coronavirus, in the shadow of which modern life has all but collapsed … to find and to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. And the coronavirus is by no means an exception to this immutable reality, it has by no …
173. Coronavirus and the Orthodox Church
… to church, even if it’s open. The latest research says Coronavirus spreads easily through the air and also on what we touch. Despite … this one. If all that doesn’t keep you busy till the Coronavirus has left us, I don’t know what will… Subject 2: Can disease be …
“Grace to help in time of need”—The Cross, the Christ, and the Coronavirus
… place in history. Our vulnerability in the wake of the Coronavirus has many reeling: but Jesus knows all about it! He feels for …
The Pandemic Upon Us
… become known that one of their fellow parishioners got the Coronavirus while attending the Liturgy? We clergy need to protect our …