The Church is a holy place of healing for those Christian believers who are spiritually and physically ill. The Physician of our souls and bodies is none other than our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Himself, O Megas Iatros. According to the holy Fathers of the Church and Sacred Scripture humanity fell from the state of grace through the ancestral sin which Adam and Eve committed. By the fall into sin, men destroyed their internal harmony -- the unity of the spirit, soul and body - they upset their nature. There was no more unity of purpose, direction and will.

"The pollution of past sins prevented you from entering the church to see the elevation of the Holy Cross, but then your conscience and the awareness of your actions turned you, O wise in God, to a better way of life. And, having looked upon the icon of the blessed Maid of God, you have condemned all you previous transgressions, O Mother worthy of all praise, and so have gone with boldness to venerate the precious Cross."

The Paschalion of the Orthodox Church is a set of rules of determining the date of Pascha (Easter) that traditionally has been implemented by calendrical tables combining Metonic lunar cycles with the Julian solar year. The rules are attributed to the First Ecumenical Council (held at Nicea in 325 A.D.).

Orthodox Christianity uses three words to describe the process of worship: latreia, hyperdouleia, and douleia. We can render them as worship/adoration, high reverence, and reverence. Worship and adoration are to be given to God alone.

The Jesus Prayer is a precise summarized form of the Prayer of the Heart. It was the culmination of a long monastic tradition that advocated using repeated scriptural phrases (recited over thousands of times in the course of a day) by which means the early monks in the desert tried to contain the tendency of thoughts (logismoi) and distractions to 'run away' with them. The monastic Higoumenos would set his monks a biblical text to meditate on, in the hope that by the constant repetition it would, as it were, 'enter into the heart' and flower there in understanding and grace.

"Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God" (Romans 5:2).