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Holy Week for Teens and Children
If you are looking for ideas for Holy Week in your parish, here are two of my favorites.1) HOLY FIRE IN JERUSALEMGather a collection of videos of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem. That miracle is one many...
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Holy Week Kids Orthodox Chart
Download for free and print this helpful lesson in chart format HERE to remind your students about each day of Holy Week in the Orthodox Church. The PDF file is filled with icons and a short...
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Pascha Poem & Orthodox Craft Idea
How does one sum up the great feast of Pascha easily for kids?With a long white piece of paper, we made three folds and created our very own accordion Pascha card with original poem to accompany the...
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Pascha Basket
If you are looking for ways to keep "Christ" in your celebration of Easter, consider making anOrthodox Pascha Basketinstead of the typical egg & candy overload! Each of the following traditional...
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Pascha Greetings in 59 Languages
Practice your Paschal greetings in 59 languages! Pascha Languages Be sure to print and save this one!I share with you also this resource page toreflect on the numerous uses of the word PASCHAin Holy...
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PASCHA: The Red Egg
Here's a look at the pious custom of red eggs in the Orthodox Church for you and your families to enjoy. Where did the tradition come from anyway? It seems there are a few possible answers to this...
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Pascha Handwriting
Give a try at writing a new language! Ask your students to write "Christ is Risen" with the appropriate responses. Print the letters inside the white spaces of the following foreign languages inside...
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St Photini Samaritan Woman at the Well
Here you will find a worksheet to download for our Orthodox Christian Journal Project on a beloved Saint, Photini, the Samaritan Woman at the well whom the Orthodox Church commemorates on February...
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12 Apostles Activity
For the 'Apostles fast' in the Orthodox Church, and here's an activity to assemble the icon day by day until the feast on June 29/30. On the first day, the children will cut out and glue the icon of...
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Ascension Orthodox Worksheet
Download and print this worksheet for the upcoming feast of the Ascension of Christ. We will discuss how Christ appeared for the forty day period after Pascha, but at different times in different ways....
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Transfiguration Journey
UPDATE:WORKSHEETS & ICON available here for free download For this activity, you'll need a few blindfolds, a Bible, an icon of the Transfiguration, and a lot of trust! Our goal is to lead the...
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Dormition Word Search & Flashcards
Here's a word search and coloring activity for this year's feastday of the Dormition of the Theotokos on August, 15th. For a tougher challenge, complete the Dormition Crossword Puzzle. "O gracious...
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Lamentations of Theotokos
A beautiful tradition has been celebrated continuously in Jerusalem for over centuries, as well as in some of our local parishes. It is the service of the Lamentations to the Theotokos or Engomia in...
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Metamorphosis Transfiguration
. . Main Entry: meta·mor·pho·sisPronunciation: \ˌme-tə-ˈmȯr-fə-səs\ Function:noun___________________________________________________ Etymology: Latin, from Greek metamorphōsis, from metamorphoun to...
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Theotokos: Her Life in Mosaics
Did you know that in the history and tradition of the Orthodox Church we have more scenes depicted from the life of the Theotokos than anyone else? You might be surprised to learn that there are over...
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THE HOLY FATHERS SAY- No Masks in the Orthodox Church!
(A prophecy from Geronda Vasileios of Kafsokalivia, an assessment by Archimandrite Savvas Agioreitis, and followed with supplementary comments from this Gregory Decapolite channel) PLEASE CONNECT...
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Never Despair - Salvation through Repentance
Our world is in a very sad situation. Let us try to see it from this perspective that a wise ascetic has communicated to us: If God is allowing this right now, without intervening, it MUST be because...
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Christmas Worksheet
Here is an Orthodox Christian Worksheet and Lesson on the Nativity that includes a bit of theology we often overlook. Although it might be for older ones, I hope it offers details that the younger ones...
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Coloring Icons with Tissue Paper Craft
"Oh, I get it" replied a small girl. "The Saints are like stain glass windows because the light of Christ shines through them."For another easy and creative project, use your traced transparency sheet...
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10 Fun Facts About Angels
"Whom Christ loves, His angels love too."St. Nicholai of Zica (1880-+1956) One often says the youngest of children can see the angels in the Orthodox Church, chasing them through the pews. You may have...
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