Some people do not turn to God, or do not go to church, because they think they are not good enough. They feel that they must reach a certain standard of spiritual integrity or visible piety before they can honesty direct them to God and try to pray.

First and foremost children are the greatest blessing in life for any married couple and indeed are a gift from God. So the greatest gift parents can pass onto their children is to lay the foundations for them to know and accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour. To do this, parents need to live and follow our faith, after all Orthodoxy is a way of life.

The purpose of the Great Fast (or Lent) for Orthodox Christians, simply stated, is to recover the vision of Christ that was given to us when we first became his sons and daughters. From the beginning, this has been an essential part of the life in Christ for two reasons.

The tradition of the Orthodox Church and its characteristically spiritual dimension are existential par excellence, constituting a dynamic context for any endeavor to becoming personally. As such, our tradition is relevant to this most noble contemporary quest for ‘something spiritual’, in a society deprived of soul and ethically disoriented. This is an aspect reflected, for example, in what we call the spiritual warfare.

The tradition of the Orthodox Church and its characteristically spiritual dimension are existential par excellence, constituting a dynamic context for any endeavor to becoming personally. As such, our tradition is relevant to this most noble contemporary quest for ‘something spiritual’, in a society deprived of soul and ethically disoriented. This is an aspect reflected, for example, in what we call the spiritual warfare.