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I have not posted here in quite a long time. The forum is really different and I changed my user name from when I first joined so I'm still getting familiar with things. I home school my son who is now in 5th grade. I really need to up our Bible study and our approach to our religious...

Is it hard to make prosfora? How do you make the imprints on the top of the bread?

Is there a particular prayer or saint that intercedes for those unable to conceive a child? TIA

Hello, I was curious. Since Passover is March 25th this year, why is Pascha being celebrated so much later than Passover? I have tried googling this but I can't seem to figure out why such a long gap between Passover and Pascha. I always recall a week or two of a gap, not more than a month. TIA

Hi, So a few years ago I remember reading a great book by a Catholic author about how to discern the voice of God. I cannot recall the title or the author and I was hoping maybe to get some help here. In the book the author talked about how during prayer when we are intensely focused on Christ...

So, my husband and I recently got a juicer in order to juice greens. I'm actually looking forward to the Lenten fast this year because of it....lol I normally do look forward to it only for the spiritual renewal, but this year for the first time, I am looking forward to it for the spiritual...

Are there any Orthodox Churches named after the Prophet Zacharias? If so, where is located?

On another message board these questions came up and I'm interested in discussing it here. The person wanted to know if there is significance in the actual way Jesus died (Did it have to be a cross or could it have been any other method? If it had to be the cross, why?). She also wanted to...

Someone I know was looking for various Christian perspectives on a particular topic/situation and I wanted to seek some help here. The question had to do with occult items (pentagrams, twisted/inverted crosses, etc). The person wanted to know if having them around one's home (for example) is...

How do you teach your children to separate the sin from the person in order to judge the sin as sinful without hating/condescending the actual sinner? More specifically, how do you handle teaching a child about homosexuality when the child lives next door to two homosexual couples?

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I am teaching Sunday school (as I've mentioned before) this year. Anyway, I needed some help figuring out the Saints and Name Days for the various kids. So, the Name day for a child named Matheos is November 16th, would St. Matthew be the Saint associated with this name? I need to find an...

Is it acceptable for an Orthodox parish to observe the feast of Francis of Assisi?

So, I am teaching Sunday school this year for the Kindergarteners. The director of the Sunday school program wanted me to incorporate Saints into the curriculum so I figured I'd celebrate Name days this year for the kids and make the learning of various Saints more meaningful to the younger...

Regarding the dietary laws of the OT, is this something that should be honored in one's walk? Do you see it as a holiness issue? Since Jesus did not come to abolish the law, should we make the attempts to abide by the old laws in our lives?

I was raised in a somewhat dysfunctional Orthodox Christian home. While my mother tried to instill the tenets of the faith in me, she was human and weak and sick and she gave up when I was around the age of 7 or 8. That is the time she stopped bringing me to Church. I was crushed, I felt a...

So, what is meant when someone says they are "Greek Greek"? I struggle fitting in at times as a first generation American who married a non-Greek in my Church parish. I was speaking with another first generation American lady who married a Greek man and she told me her husband is "Greek Greek".

Is "na sas ziesi" the traditional saying when a baby is baptized??

So, I met a woman with her daughter at a local group in my area and we got to talking about various things including the school districts in our area. Anyway, I wasn't sure if she had other children, so I casually asked if it was just the 3 of them, "you, your daughter and your husband?" And...

It's been a few years since I've done the entire Lenten fast. I'm a little nervous especially since my son will still be eating meat and dairy throughout. I plan on introducing him to things like rice milk, veggie burgers, etc only on Fridays perhaps for now since he's only 4 1/2. How old...