Temperance and Living in the Moment – Great Lenten Retreat Week Two Welcome to our second week of our Great Lent retreat, with temperance and living in the moment as our virtues to grow in. This is the second article in our Great Lent retreat series. So if you missed last week’s article on Humility …
Humility and Justice – Week One of our Great Lenten Retreat. Great Lenten Retreat Last year we did a great decluttering challenge for Lent, to focus on detachment. This year we are going to do a seven week series on the virtues! We will start with the four cardinal virtues and a relatable virtue for …
The Dormition Fast begins August 1st, and lasts through to the Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God. The BadgerDad wrote an excellent article on the details of the Dormition Fast, which you can read here. In it there are various prayers poignant to this period, as well as a bit about the …
.This week’s article on the Trinity icon is co-written by Kyleshka and the Badger Dad. Who’s Rublev? Andrei Rublev, (pronounced “Rooblyohff), a monk from Holy Trinity Monastery, is the iconographer behind the most popular icon of the Holy Trinity. We do not know many of the details of his life. But here is what we …
The Theotokos is ready to help your make your prayer life great again (through the Rosary and other Marian prayers)! This is the third and final week in our Great Lenten series on deepening your prayer life. The first week we talked about praying with our Guardian Angel. And last week we discussed spicing up …
Icon corners are where it is at! Last week we talked about how to make your prayer life great again with your guardian angel. This week we are talking about deepening our prayer life with icon corners! Great Practice Two – Spice Up Your Icon Corner So before we can talk about how to improve …
“Penance, Penance, Penance” -Angel to the Fatima Children, 3rd Vision, July 13, 1917. (Source: http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000626_message-fatima_en.html) A Brief Public Service Announcement From Kyleshka, TheBadgerDad, Little Fox and Little Badger of The Byzantine Life: Stay safe and well, brothers and sisters! May the Lord grant that our Churches continue the Apostolate of the Great Commission and bring …
Make your prayer life GREAT again this Great Lent. This week we are going to talk about one of three ways to deepen our prayer life. And now is the day to start! That’s right. It doesn’t need to be Clean Monday, Holy Thursday, or Pure Monday to start some new prayer practices. The day …
Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory Forever! August 1 to August 15 marks another special season in the liturgical calendar of the Byzantine Church. A season dedicated to preparing with prayer and penance a heart like our Blessed Mother, the Holy Theotokos. We try to create a heart like Her’s because on August 15 the Theotokos …
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