How to Avoid Christmas Depression
The Eastern Orthodox Nativity Fast May Prevent Post-Holiday Blues
The ancient Orthodox Christian religion celebrates the Christmas holiday in a way that helps people cope with depression and experience the true joy of Christmas. People often feel deprived and lonely, in stark contrast to all of the pre-Christmas cheer. Others feel let down and weighed down by food and debt after the Christmas holiday. Continue reading
Tags: Christmas · Depression · Fast · Nativity · orthodox
I thought I should share this with you on the Thanksgiving Eve. The Akathist of Thanksgiving, a CD by the St. Ignatius of Antioch Antiochian Orthodox Mission in Madison, Wisconsin, was written by Archpriest Gregory Petroff in a Soviet Prison Camp. Continue reading
Tags: music · Thanksgiving
For a first comer in an Orthodox Church the thing that strikes the most is the richness of traditions that abound in the life of the faithful. It seems that we have a tradition for everything: the way we light the candles, the way we venerate the icons, the way we cross ourselves and so on. All conforms to some unwritten rules that are puzzling and difficult to follow Continue reading
We listen to the hymns and readings in Church, and two series of events are revealed before us: the Old Testament – and the New, as the type and the fulfillment, as the shadow and the truth, as the fall and the rising, as the loss and the gain. In the patristic writings and the hymns in the church services Continue reading
Tags: Bible · Old Testament
I recently came across this impressive book that features a collection of daily Bible readings according to the Orthodox Ecclesiastical Calendar.
So far nothing exciting, there are many like this. What is unique about this book is that it features commentaries from the Orthodox Fathers. This makes it a unique daily companion for the Orthodox seeker of divine knowledge. Continue reading
Tags: Bible · books · Holy Fathers · orthodox
When you go to the Book of Genesis, look for the Lord Jesus Christ there. The promise is given that the seed of woman shall bruise the serpents head (3:15). Then turn to Exodus and you find that He is the One, and the only One, that…
Starting Wednesday, November 12th join us for the new Gladsome Light Dialogues series “Christ in the Bible” that will continue throughout the lent until Nativity. Continue reading
Tags: Christ in the Bible · Themes for 2008
Most books about the Bible are principally concerned with how it came to be and what it meant in its historical context. But — as readers of Jaroslav Pelikan’s ”Whose Bible Is It?” will find — that is really only the beginning of the Bible’s story. Continue reading
Tags: Bible · Book recommendations · books
