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I mean the fee for each name of a person you include in the moleben (so that at the certain part of the service the priest says for example "have mercy oh Lord on your servants John, Mary, Peter, [...] etc." It is a standard practice in the Bulgarian and Russian orthodox churches. The...

Hello to everybody, I wanted to ask if anyone has a certain moleben service in his/her parish where names of relatives could be included in the prayer service for the required fee. The moleben was recently introduced in the Russian Orthodox Church (Synod meeting from 13.10.2022) . It is...

I never had defined preferences, including height. This specific situation hit me for the first time in my life, as I never had a similar encounter before. Still, asking the elders solved the issue as always. Thank you all for your advice.

Hello everybody, I have this specific "issue" which I cannot solve by myself. An old lady ("yaya") from my parish wants to introduce me to a young girl which also visits the same parish. The aim is initial friendship and later courtship purposes (if things turn out well). There is only one...

Marius, as for the inappropriate contentography addiction, I believe I can be of some help with my personal experience. Now, my addiction was with a different carnal sin, but the same rules still apply. I was a ravenous glutton and by gluttony I mean extreme binge eating every day. I started by doing the...

Hello again everybody, I honestly don't know what's happening and would like the ones of you who are orthodox and already married to shed some light on the matter. Long story short: since my last post I resumed going to church in my closest parish and together with that i resumed seeing a girl...

^^^ And THIS folks is what basic everyday Orthodoxy is! I've been coming to this forum from time to time, reading similar posts, and I'm absolutely amazed to see what kind of parish life you american othodox live. You all seem to have post-service gatherings for chatter and so on and you...

Hello everybody, I was wondering if you burn incense at your homes and if so, how do you do it? As far as I know, you must walk around the rooms with it as it burns, chanting a troparion and making the sign of the cross at every wall. Still, I could be wrong.

Update: i just made a visit again, managed to talk to aunt Ilyana in private and things were grimmer that I thought. It seems he has started bringing prostitutes in the apartment's other rooms and she had overheard women expressing discontent at why an old woman is in the place(it is her home...

Please pray for my aunt Iliyana. I have been visiting her from time to time since she's a distant relative of mine. The woman is in her early 80s, lives very poorly with hardly any furniture left and as her legs are immobile, she's always lying on her bed. Her health has gotten very unstable as...

You have made the right decision, getting yourself back to Church will be the only way forward. Like yourself, I have a similar episode of falling away from church life. Right now I'm still struggling to get back the way it was before but it's definitely harder than it was when I first joined...

I humbly ask all of you to pray for a fellow orthodox christian from my home town. The story started like this: He turned to Christ somewhere in his 30s, while married and with two children. However his wife soon left him while taking the kids in the process due to his agressive "hyperdox"...

I described the situation but since I know the archimandrite from long ago, he didn't give me any new advice on this matter in particular. I just read the "Let God arise..." prayer and 90th Psalm multiple times until everything calmed down. It's amazing how quiet everything was in the last...

Small update: so I got to the monastery and the archimandrite gave me a new prayer rule. I did a confession and managed to keep the fast for a few days now with the morning and evening prayers added. The resistance however is unbelievably fierce. I already fell to agressive gluttony twice which...

Thank you all very much. Currently I'll have only the weekends free, as I am just starting an obligatory post-graduate training program. There's a monastery near the city I was thinking of visiting every weekend, do any type of physical work they always offer and participate in the daily cycle...

Hello everyone, it's been quite a while since I last posted here. I've come to a problematic situation where I've almost completely fallen away from the faith. I spent two years of zealous Church life where I did my best to live as an Orthodox christian. Church services, all-night vigils, daily...

Please pray for Maria - a sick grandmother and the three orphans Petya, Martina and Hristo. All of which live on her minimal pension.

I finally graduated by the Lord's mercy. Thank you all for your prayer support. Glory to God!

Tomorrow, 3rd of October, is my last state exam (Civil law). If I pass first phase, I will be scheduled for a face-to-face examination somewhere between 6th, 7th or 8th October next week. If anyone has the time, please pray for me.

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