It appears that I’m back where I was a fortnight ago: looking through the saints of the coming week, I found another ‘Virgin-Martyr’ of t...

Depending on which part of the Orthodox tradition you belong, the Gospel on the Sunday before the start of the Lenten Triodion could eith...

At this time of the Feast of the Meeting of the Lord, I’ve managed to piece together an inspiring story of struggle against persecution t...

‘For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, the...

Please find attached the text of my talk about how we work out, from Scripture, the date of Christ's Birth with an overview of how the Fe...

The Old Testament Book of Tobit is the account of a man called Tobias who sets out on a journey to reclaim money lent to an acquaintance....

Please find attached my article on the subject of the Proskomedie.

Selected parts of 'The Life of St. Alban and St. Amphibalus'

New Martyr, Passion Bearer.

So Christ is ascended…into heaven! Now we are in expectation, along with the apostles, of the coming of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter. I...

John 9, 1-38 It's a scene of great tumult: a group that possesses the earthly power to stone our Lord for blasphemy is all ready for the ...

We find people commemorated on Sundays of the Pentecostarion who are no longer what they once were, yet we still seem to label them

The short answer is that they are not dead|: . Mark 12:27; Luke 20:38-Jesus makes it very clear here that God is not God of the Dead but ...

‘With faith and love draw nigh’…the words of the Divine Liturgy that call us to receive Holy Communion. Was it faith? I’ve read that the ...

'Bright' and 'Monday' are two words we don't often think about using together in our age, when Mondays mark the weekly return to work for...

Call me nosey, but I think the story of St Mary of Egypt throws up a number of questions alongside her answers.

The Orthodox Church has a very different approach to The BIble than the Western Church. If, like me, you were brought up to go to Church,...

On Friday I attended a liturgy of the presanctified gifts. Even though it was completely in Church Slavonic...

Maslenitsa (Russian: Мaсленица, Ukrainian: Масниця, Belarusian: Масленіца; also known as Butter Lady, Butter Week, Crepe week, or Cheesef...

For those of you who are interested in a fuller account of how the Orthodox Church practises fasting,let me refer you to The Lenten Triodion