Divine Liturgy (meaning common work, common service, or common action in Greek), or Eucharist (thanksgiving), is the focal point of the life of the Orthodox Church. Holy Fathers define it as the Sacrament above all sacraments or as the Sacrament of the Church. It is the source of all, and it is the final destination [ ]

Prayer is a conversation with God and it is the essence of the life of all angels in Heaven and all the saints. It is the very heart of all virtue – faith most of all. Without prayer it is impossible to conceive and understand mysteries of Orthodox faith, of the world we live in, [ ]

The Great Feast of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ – Easter or the Holy Pascha, represents the starting point of Orthodox understanding of the sanctification of time. It stands at the center of Orthodox liturgical life, at the center of that segment of time that the Orthodox Church calls a year. We are [ ]

It was St. Sava who introduced the ritual of the baptismal Slava, or Patron Saint’s Day, into practice on a liturgical basis. Since the time of St. Sava, this ritual and its accompanying customs gradually assumed the form it has today. The present aspect of this ritual was finally formed by Mihajlo, the Metropolitan of [ ]

The Orthodox Church is one, holy, catholic and apostolic, as we confess in the Creed, i.e. in the Symbol of Faith. It is the communion (Gr. koinonia) of the holy since all its members are united in Christ, through the Holy Spirit. There exists a ceaseless unity in prayer between the visible, earthly, part of [ ]