“Orthodox change nothing,” Father Sava adds. “The faith that was delivered to the saints,” Martin agrees. We pause before a ...

The various liturgical calendars in use throughout most of Christianity feature a happy coincidence in 2025: Easter Sunday will be celebrated on the same day in almost every Christian church, be ...

GERHARD RICHTER, now (at 93) the grand old man of German art, put the problem succinctly in 1964: “Art is not a substitute religion. . . But the Church is no longer adequate as a means of offering ...

St. Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church men’s club President Steve Popovich reaches for the the next hand-breaded cod fish to fry at the Monroeville church’s fish fry March 21.

Day,” addresses his 2022 Oscars controversy, in which he slapped Chris Rock onstage for making a joke about his wife Jada ...

The Akathist Hymn is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The Akathist Hymn, which is chanted on the first five Fridays of Great Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church (the first four in parts and the fifth in ...

It is chanted in all Orthodox Churches throughout the world during the five Fridays in Great Lent and constitutes a very concrete spiritual preparation for the Holy Week and Easter Services.

The countdown to the Orthodox Easter, or Pascha, the most important religious feast of the year, started on March 3, 2025, when Greece celebrated “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean Monday.” The date ...