Let God Arise: LIVE Q & A with Fr. Gregory
Every person asks questions. Here at Orthodox Christian Network we encourage it. Fr. Gregory Joyce blesses our OCN Community. Every other week Fr. Gregory goes LIVE on OCN Facebook and has a worldwide audience of questions and answers with viewers and supporters like you. We thank you to those that...
Celebrating September, Ήθη και έθιμα του Σεπτεμβρίου
Listen as Dimitris Karavasilis, host of True Life- a Greek production of the Orthodox Christian Network, offers a reflection to enlighten our daily lives with the light of Scripture and wisdom of the Church fathers. This week: Celebrating September. Ήθη και έθιμα του Σεπτεμβρίου Σ’ αυτή την εκπομπή παρουσιάζουμε ήθη...
Our Children Reveal Our True Priorities at Christmas
The Christmas season has arrived, and I find myself thinking about my most cherished memories from every Christmas prior. As a mom, I find it important to pass along as many of these treasured traditions to my children as possible. As I was thinking about this, I was wondering if...
The Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever
Our experience of living in North America today is very different than was the experience of living in Byzantium in the fifth century, or in Holy Russia in the nineteenth century—or even in post-Soviet Russia now in the twenty-first century. Every culture is different, and these differences profoundly impact on...
Traditionalism vs. Tradition
The late great scholar Jaroslav Pelikan once observed: “Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.” In Orthodox Christianity, to which the former Lutheran scholar Pelikan...
How the Monks Make Kollyva on The Holy Mountain
This article originally appeared here and is republished as part of OCN’s strategic partnership with Pemptousia. On the Holy Mountain, the abbots of the last hundred years are commemorated, as well as the priests and monks of the last thirty. Kollyvo is made every time an icon is placed in...
The Long Shadows of Byzantium
Every time I stand at the altar in our little church of St. Herman’s in Langley, B.C., I stand in the long shadows of Byzantium. That is, I find myself facing the processional cross which we keep at the back of the altar table. At the base of that cross,...
Pascha isn’t over yet!
While getting ready for bed on Easter Sunday, my older daughter began to get teary-eyed. After I tucked her sister into bed, she followed me out of the room, hugged me, and whispered, “Mom, I don’t want Pascha to be over.” I understood her sentiment. Growing up Catholic, we said...
In Praise of Old Women
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, the Church of England comes to the rescue. This summer a couple was married in the church of St. Mary’s and St. Martin’s in the town of Blyth in Nottinghamshire. After the Vicar, a lady named Kate Bottley, tied the matrimonial knot...
Customs for Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday
Ο Δημήτρης Καραβασίλης παραθέτει μια σειρά απο έθιμα για το Σάββατο του Λαζάρου καθώς και για την Κυριακή των Βαίων. Αυτά τα έθιμα είναι ζωντανά ακόμα και στις μέρες μας. Είναι σημαντικό να προσπαθούμε να διατηρούμε την παράδοση μας, μιας και αυτή είναι τόσο στενά δεμένη με την πίστη μας.
