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Flowery (Palm) Sunday began to be celebrated in Constantinople by the fifth century - a couple centuries after it began in Jerusalem and...

I remember listening in amazement in high school chapel at my Christian school as various guest speakers told of dramatic conversions...

I have had so many wonderful experiences with the sacrament of Confession, but I will tell you about two of my favorites. On February 29,...

When I was younger I did not want the mess, the noise, the chaos, or the financial burden of children. And I was under the impression...

The first time I remember seeing an icon was in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. I was taking a class in Israel my sophomore year...

We adopted our son six weeks after he had survived a premature birth at 25 weeks due to an overdose of cocaine. He was born at 1 lb. 14...

I have often heard or seen Dostoevsky quoted, “Beauty will save the world.” It is attributed to him as if it were his personal...

Several years ago, after very emotional struggles with infertility and two heartbreaking miscarriages, we began our first adoption. It...

In our family, we have four very intense children, two adopted with trauma histories, one with secondary trauma, one with a missing...

I have a hard time relating to the saints who knew they were going to be nuns from the time they were six - those saints who wanted to do...

The feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple (2 February) is one of the Twelve Major Feast Days in the Eastern Church, also...

The interior of a Byzantine Church should be a three dimensional icon; the Church is a model of the universe, a vision of the redeemed, a...

One Sunday after liturgy, I overheard a visitor to our church commenting on the iconography, “Why do the figures look so strange? They...

This past summer I was very blessed to be able to participate not only in another iconography class with the Byzantine School of...

Two intensive weeks of art camps have come to an end, and I am thankful for the experience. I kept enrollment to four students per camp...

I have just returned from a beautiful, powerful, intense experience where art and prayer were indistinguishable. I have come away with a...

Today at our last elementary art camp we read Beauty and the Beast – the classic fairytale that speaks of the great sacrifice required by...

Today in our third Tuesday of elementary art camp, we read Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, an African fairytale about a prince who...

With the collapse of Imperial Russia and the rise of the Bolsheviks in 1917, the art & prayer of icon painting was suppressed....

The Japanese have a gift for the pursuit of Beauty. It is apparent in their art, their fashion, their gardening, their tea ceremony. The...