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• Cults and Sects
• Funerals
• Devotions
• Ecumenism
• Fasting
• Forgiveness
• History
• Icons
• Inspirational
• Language

• Lent (Fasting)
• Liturgy
• Living
• Mariology
• Weddings
• Morals
• Nationalism
• Orthodox Unity
• Protestantism
• Prayer
• Ritual
• Sacraments
• Saints
• Sign
• Sin
• Theology

• Angels

  • St Michael:  Who is like God?

• Apostles

  • Peter, Paul and the Church: Seeing the Whole in the Part

  • The Fast of the Apostles: On being sent into the world

  • The Brother of God

  • St Andrew and St Clement: Apostolic Founders of Kyivan Christianity

• Bible

  • Fulfillment of the Prophecies of the Old Testament

  • The Septuagint

  • The Psalms and the Christian Life: Singing in the Reign

  • What the Gospel of Thomas Really Means

  • Gospel of Saint Thomas

  • The Gospel of Saint Thomas and Fear

  • The Scriptures and the Church

  • A Secretary who got the credit he deserved

  • The Urantia Book

• Calendar

  • Dates of the Feast of Nativity

  • Easter date

  • Calendar Questions: Out with the Old and in with the New?

  • Church Calendar and Date of Christmas Celebration

  • Happy New Year

  • Determination of the Date of Easter

  • The Theophany:  Seeing the Light

• Catholic

  • Relations Between the Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox Churches

  • Winnipeg to get two Ukrainian patron saints:  A vindication of the Pioneers

  • Catholics and Orthodox: Who does the West like better?

  • Additional Comment regarding St. Peter as head of the one True Church

  • St. Peter as the Head of the True Church

  • The Pope in Athens: Bewaring Greeks . . .

  • Saints Preserve Us:  The Vatican Gives Haloes to Ukrainians

  • Western Russophiles Nervous About Papal Trip to Ukraine

  • Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches

  • New Papal posturing: How many Ukrainian Cardinals are there?

  • The plight of Eastern Catholics in Russia

  • Ukrainian Catholics Have New Leader

  • Russians Unhappy about Papal Visit to Ukraine

  • The Virgin Mary in East and West

  • The Blessing of a Married Priesthood

  • Vatican Tries Back Door Approach To Moscow

  • Ukrainian Catholics Lose Leader: What Lies Ahead?

  • St Peter and the Petrine Ministry

  • Of Patriarchs and Patriarchates in Orthodoxy

  • Is The Vatican Getting Serious About the Orthodox?

  • Eastern Catholics and Orthodoxy: A Homecoming

  • The Upcoming Papal Visit to Ukraine: Quo Vadis John Paul II?

  • Papal Visit to Ukraine Revisited: The Real Agenda

  • Are There more Catholic than Orthodox?

  • Differences Between Catholic and Orthodox

  • Orthodoxy and the Protestant Reformation

  • Brest'-Litovsk 1596: The "Unia" makes us strong?

• Clergy

  • Becoming a Priest in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

  • The Blessing of a Married Priesthood

  • Of Patriarchs and Patriarchates in Orthodoxy

  • St Benedict, His Rule and Orthodox Laity

  • Female Lectors/Cantors

  • Calling to the Priesthood or Brotherhood

  • Single Bishops

  • The First Anglican Monk

• Communion

  • Inter-Faith Communion

  • In other Orthodox Churchs

  • Baptized Catholics and Communion in the Orthodox Church

  • Communion Practices

  • PREPARING FOR THE MYSTERIES

  • Eucharistic Terminology: Transubstantiation

  • The Last Supper and the Amputated Arm

  • Excommunication

  • Confession and Communion

  • The Life IN Christ

• Confession

  • Epitimia

  • Confession in the Orthodox Church

  • Lord have mercy:  Secrets of a True Confession

  • Confession and our Spiritual Father

  • The Life IN Christ

  • Confession and Communion

• Cross

  • Three-barred Cross

  • Explanation of the "Tryzub" or the Trident

  • Orthodoxy, Icons and the Incarnation: Ascending to God

  • The Teachings of St. Petro Mohyla

  • Crossing the Threshold: The Tree of Life and Its Fruit

  • The Power of the Sign of the Cross

  • Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross (Sept. 27)

  • Three Armed Cross

  • Elevation of the Cross

• Cults and Sects

Ukraine, Ukrainians and Jehovah's Witnesses

• Culture

Ukrainian-Russian Question
Our Cyrillo-Methodian Heritage:  Making sense of Slavic culture
I'm not Ukrainian.What does This Church Offer Me?
Faith and Culture: An Interaction
St George and the . . . Environment
Taras Shevchenko and Ilya Chavchavadze:  Christian Visionaries

• Death

  • Meaning of Parasatas and Panachida

  • Prayers for Departed Homosexuals

  • Funeral Practices

  • Dealing with the death of loved ones: When somebody needs a body

  • On Suicide

  • Orthodox Funerals

  • Orthodox Teaching on Heaven and Hell

  • Purgatory

  • St Demetrius and the Dead

  • A Grief Reserved: Christians in Mourning

• Devotions

  • Shrines, Pilgrims and Miraculous Phenomena:  "Taking a hike" for God

  • The Coming of the Holy Spirit: Pouring oil to overflowing

  • God is Very Much Alive:
    The Resurrectional Optimism of the Eastern Church

  • St John of the Ladder: When so many Rungs make a Rite

• Ecumenism

  • Orthodox Christian Information Center

• Fasting

  • Hunger for Righteousness' Sake: A "how to" of fasting
  • Reaching out to touch someone: Prayer and fasting as social ministry
  • The Olympics and the Great Fast: A comparison of training and judging techniques

  • Shopping, lights and neat toys: Is it beginning to look a lot like Christmas? 

  • The Fast of the Apostles: On being sent into the world

  • Crossing the Threshold: The Tree of Life and Its Fruit

  • A Great, Fast Approach to Environmental Protection

  • The Orthodox Version of "Fast Food": A Quick Byte of History

  • What's in a name?  Orthodox vs. Unorthodox Terms

  • Lent and Today's Christian

  • Mardi Gras and Lent:  Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler!

  • Spiritual Life during Lent

  • Proper Way to Perform a Full Prostration to the Floor during Lenten Services

  • Some comments on some of the nine Lenten questions

  • The Last Supper and the Amputated Arm

• Foregiveness

  • Some Thoughts on Foregiveness

• History and Church Relations (also see Orthodox Unity)

  • Lutherans

  • The Feast of Ukraine's Baptism: Witnessing to Christ today

  • Religious conflict between Kyiv and Moscow heats up: A punch-up at Poltava

  • St Sophia Cathedral and property rites:
    Bringing some wisdom to bare . . .

  • Sunday of Orthodoxy: Anathematizing anorexic spirituality

  • Christianization of Poland

  • Anchored in Christ: A celebration of Ukraine`s Pope

  • The Sacking of Constantinople

  • Ukrainian-Russian Question

  • Religion, war and terrorism: When making love is mandatory

  • A City of Sharp Contrast: Piety and Persecution in Paris

  • Differences Between Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox Churches

  • Pre-Christian Religious Beliefs

  • The Restoration of Ukrainian Church traditions: Of Russophiles and Nationalism

  • St Athanasius of Brest:  A Martyr for True Church Unity

  • The 950^th Anniversary of the Kyiv Caves Lavra: Everyone invited but the Ukrainians

  • Family of Orthodox Churches

  • Saint Volodymyr the Baptizer: Wetting cultural appetites for the Gospel

  • Saint Olha the Great: Never send a man to do a woman's job . . .

  • Peter, Paul and the Church: Seeing the Whole in the Part

  • The Comeback King of Bulgaria: An Orthodox approach to government administration

  • Kozak Martyrs, Siberian Saints and Chinese Missionaries: Ukrainians do get around!

  • Winnipeg to get two Ukrainian patron saints:  A vindication of the Pioneers

  • Canada's first Ukrainian saint:  When loyalties collide

  • The Breath of the Spirit from the North:  Celts in Kyiv

  • Of Black Madonnas and Eunuchs: Ethiopia extends its hands to God

  • The Sword of the Spirit: 1,700 years of Armenian Christianity

  • Western Russophiles Nervous About Papal Trip to Ukraine

  • Ukrainian Evangelicals and Pentecostals in our midst

  • Are Ukrainians Insane? Opposing Current Political Correctness

  • Thou art Peter: Kyivan Christianity on the Rocks

  • Joie et tristesse lumineuse

  • Church and State in Ukraine: Some Current Issues

  • Swimming Against the Mainstream: Protecting Our Traditions

  • Vatican Tries Back Door Approach To Moscow

  • Ukrainian Catholics Lose Leader: What Lies Ahead?

  • St Peter and the Petrine Ministry

  • Kholm and Its Holy Legacy

  • Of Patriarchs and Patriarchates in Orthodoxy

  • Our Jewish Heritage

  • Is The Vatican Getting Serious About the Orthodox?

  • Missionary Destination:  Siberia

  • Eastern Catholics and Orthodoxy: A Homecoming

  • The Upcoming Papal Visit to Ukraine: Quo Vadis John Paul II?

  • Papal Visit to Ukraine Revisited: The Real Agenda

  • Nameday of Metropolitan Ilarion Ohienko

  • Kyivan Metropolitan Petro Mohyla and Church Unity

  • A Brief History of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

  • Ukrainian Trident

  • Lifting of the of the Anathemas of AD1054

  • Origin of the Word "Slav"

  • Russification

  • Use of the Word "Uniate"

  • Kyivan Catholics

  • Intercommunion between Byzantine Catholics and Orthodox

  • Spelling of Terms

  • A Bit of Polish History

  • Orthodox-Catholic Unity

  • The First Anglican Monk

  • The French Connection

  • A Royal Priesthood in more ways than one

  • Our Fathers among the Saints

  • An Apostle's doubtless sincerity

  • Feast of Royal Missionaries

  • Volyn - Bastion of Orthodoxy

  • St. Demetrius of Rostov

  • All Saints of Ireland

  • Orthodoxy and the Protestant Reformation

  • Orthodox Christian Information Center

  • Brest'-Litovsk 1596: The "Unia" makes us strong?

  • St Herman of Alaska and the Kyivan Missionary Vision

  • St Andrew and St Clement: Apostolic Founders of Kyivan Christianity

  • Orthodoxy and Canonicity:  Some Observations

  • Orthodoxy and Nationalism Today: Oil and Water?

• Icons

  • New Fruits of the Spirit: Two Saints and an Icon

  • We are Living Icons

  • Developing into the Image of Christ

  • Venerating Icons Written by Non-Orthodox

  • Icons of the Virgin Mary: Keeping our Mother's picture near and dear

  • Icon Corners

  • Orthodoxy, Icons and the Incarnation: Ascending to God

  • Ukrainian Orthodox Icons

  • The Last Supper and the Amputated Arm

  • New Martyr Nestor Savchuk

  • Faith and Icons

  • The Icon Corner: A "How To"

  • 13th Sunday after Pentecost

• Inspirational

  • MEMORIES OF AUGUST:  SOME ARE FUN
  • Joie et tristesse lumineuse
  • The First Cause - God
  • The "I ams" of Christ
  • Into 2000 - What`s Life Without a Living
  • The Eternal and Spiritual Qualities of the Scriptures
  • The Light of the World

• Language and Nationalism

  • Ukrainian-Russian Question

  • Days of the Week

  • Ukrainian Saints:  Heavenly people and uplifting culture

  • Our Cyrillo-Methodian Heritage:  Making sense of Slavic culture

  • National Culture, Nationalism and the Eastern Churches: Defending People's Rites

  • Swimming Against the Mainstream: Protecting Our Traditions

  • Taras Shevchenko - a Ukrainian Poet

  • Taras Shevchenko and Ilya Chavchavadze:  Christian Visionaries

  • Missionary Destination:  Siberia

  • Ukrainian Trident

  • More on the Issue of Language

  • On Nationalism

  • Our Contemporary Challenge

  • Russification

  • Nameday of Metropolitan Ilarion Ohienko

  • I'm not Ukrainian.What does This Church Offer Me?

  • Faith and Culture: An Interaction

  • Brest'-Litovsk 1596: The "Unia" makes us strong?

  • St George and the . . . Environment

  • Orthodoxy and Nationalism Today: Oil and Water?

• Liturgy

  • Royal Doors and Iconostasis

  • Ukrainian Orthodox rites

  • Tetrapod

  • Music to our Spiritual Ears:  Standing For What We Believe

  • The Meeting of the Lord:  God comes down to our level.

  • The Theophany:  Seeing the Light

  • The Brother of God

  • Instructions by Priests

  • Kneeling during the Lord's Prayer

  • Confession and Communion

  • Elevation of the Cross

  • Considerations Concerning the Sabbath

  • Eucharistic Terminology

  • Three Armed Cross

  • Spiritual Retreats and the Renewal of Christian Life

  • Feast of the Three Saviours in August

  • Happy New Year

  • Celebrating our Name Days

  • The Icon Corner: A "How To"

  • The Power of the Sign of the Cross

  • Festival of Gardening

• Living

  • The Olympics and the Great Fast: A comparison of training and judging techniques

  • St Valentine's Day and the culture of Playboy: Love by another name? 

  • Mission Statement

  • Tea Leaf Readings

  • Depression and Spiritual Help

  • Shrines, Pilgrims and Miraculous Phenomena:  "Taking a hike" for God

  • St Nicholas, sleighs and presents: The essence of the day all wrapped up

  • George Harrison: Fingers on the musical chords of the soul 

  • Shopping, lights and neat toys: Is it beginning to look a lot like Christmas? 

  • Days of the Week

  • Mindfulness of God in the workplace: Divine help in keeping perspective

  • St Phocas the Gardener of Sinope:  Flower power revisited

  • Pet companions in our life: Dealing with animal desires

  • St Euphrosynos the Cook: The kitchen as focal point of communion

  • Sex and the City: Faith to faith encounters

  • True Words of Christ

  • True Words of Christ (revisited)

  • St John of Suchava:  Pilgrimage as enduring theme of the Christian life

  • Timothy McVeigh and capital punishment:  A die for a die

  • Human sexuality and the Church: What we always wanted to know

  • God is Very Much Alive:
    The Resurrectional Optimism of the Eastern Church

  • Minimum Number of Children

  • The Teachings of St. Petro Mohyla

  • Literal Heaven and Hell

  • Respect Towards Other Religions and Faiths

  • Mourning

  • A Great, Fast Approach to Environmental Protection

  • What's in a name?  Orthodox vs. Unorthodox Terms

  • Swimming Against the Mainstream: Protecting Our Traditions

  • The Ongoing Tragedy That Is Chornobyl

  • Christianity and the Internet: Making the Connections

  • Drug Abuse:  A non-sporting view

  • St George and the . . . Environment

  • Palm Beach and the Widow's Mite

  • Orthodox Nativity and Western Christmas: Toward a Renewed Focus

  • The Birth of Christ and It's Impact

• Mariology

  • Ascension of the Mother of God

  • The Pochayiv Mother of God in America: The original Lourdes of the East

  • The Mystery Hidden from All Eternity

  • The Origins of the "Hail Mary" Prayer

  • The Protectress

  • Weeping Icons of the Mother of God: The Power of Tearful Love

  • Icons of the Virgin Mary: Keeping our Mother's picture near and dear

  • The Feast of the Dormition: Comparing an Assumption

  • Be it done to me according to Thy word:  She who is blessed among women

  • The Virgin Mary in East and West

  • Visitations

  • Concerning Faith and Works and the Holy Mother of God

  • Mariology and Infant Baptism

  • Martin Luther on the Mother of God

  • The Mantle of Protection

  • Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos (Sept. 21)

• Marriage

  • Attendant Roles in Marriages

  • Premarital Sex

  • Divorce

  • Orthodox Weddings

  • Human sexuality and the Church: What we always wanted to know

  • Minimum Number of Children

  • Marriage Vows

  • Sexual Morality

  • Single Bishops

• Morals

  • Conception during the Great Fast

  • Church's Stance on War

  • Involuntary Transgression

  • Premarital Sex

  • Sex and the City: Faith to faith encounters

  • Human sexuality and the Church: What we always wanted to know

  • The Unpardonable Sin

  • Masons and Orthodox

  • An Addendum to the Commentary on "Masons and Orthodox"

  • Sexual Morality

  • Palm Beach and the Widow's Mite

• Orthodox Unity

  • Oriental Orthodox Churches

  • Kyivan Patriarchate and Ukrainian Orthodoxy

  • Inter-Communion

  • Shroud of Turin brings Ukrainian Church leaders together:

  • Large Number of Jurisdictions in US and Canada

  • Canonicity

  • Anathema

  • Saints in our Home Churches: Dad, pray unto God for me! 

  • Western Rite Orthodox in our midst:  Ad Fontes!

  • Ukrainian Autocephalous Church

  • The Restoration of Ukrainian Church traditions: Of Russophiles and Nationalism

  • St. Paul, Sts. Priscilla and Aquila, and Ukrainian Orthodox Jurisdictions

  • Religious pluralism in Ukraine:  The Old Believers of Bila Krinitsa

  • Western Russophiles Nervous About Papal Trip to Ukraine

  • Church and State in Ukraine: Some Current Issues

  • Of Patriarchs and Patriarchates in Orthodoxy

  • Eastern Catholics and Orthodoxy: A Homecoming

  • Canonical Status of Patriarch Filaret

  • Kyivan Metropolitan Petro Mohyla and Church Unity

  • A Brief History of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

  • Brest'-Litovsk 1596: The "Unia" makes us strong?

• Prayer

  • AKATHIST TO JESUS THE ALL-MERCIFUL LOVER OF MANKIND

  • Prayers for the Dead

  • Hope for Departed Sinners

  • Spiritual Treasury of the Great Fast: The Prayer of St Ephrem the Syrian

  • Candles, incense and silent vigil: The liturgy of the heart

  • Changing them by Your Spirit: How to celebrate Pentecost every day

  • Prayers for Departed Homosexuals

  • The Origins of the "Hail Mary" Prayer

  • Shrines, Pilgrims and Miraculous Phenomena:  "Taking a hike" for God

  • Mindfulness of God in the workplace: Divine help in keeping perspective

  • Joining in the daily prayer of the Church: Spiritual happy hours

  • The Spirituality of the Jesus Prayer: A beginner's course absolutely free of charge . . .

  • Praying with Christ today: The Church's Liturgical Heritage

  • Icon Corners

  • St John of the Ladder: When so many Rungs make a Rite

  • Of Pilgrims and the Jesus Prayer: Amazing Grace

  • What's in a name?  Orthodox vs. Unorthodox Terms

  • Saint Theophane the Recluse:  Of Prayer and Fire

  • God is our Saviour:  The Name of Jesus

  • Confession and our Spiritual Father

  • St Benedict, His Rule and Orthodox Laity

  • Praying with uplifted hands 

  • Kneeling during the Lord's Prayer

  • Prayer Life of the Laity