Yesterday we had our house blessed. This morning, my children decided to recreate our living room into a little Church (literally) ☦️ which reminded me.... According to Saint John Chrysostom, the home is a little church. It’s where we continue to encounter Christ by seeking Him through prayer and study and where we struggle to acquire the virtues of the Christian life. This practice of cultivating our home into a little church is such a joy and one I am very grateful to continue to cultivate. I did not grow up in an Orthodox home. My husband and I both converted to Orthodoxy in our mid-twenties before we had children. In many ways, I feel like I am creating our Little Church without a paradigm. As my children grow, I feel myself growing right along side them. I have not figured it out fully and I am still on the journey, but I wanted to share some ways we work to create our home into a little church.