Professor Darina Grigorova
The European resolution, through the image of its enemy—Russia in this case—is trying to introduce censorship on the freedom of historical perspective.
Archpriest Andrei Tkachev
Your attitude towards fasting is one of the criteria for evaluating your faith.
Fr. Stephen Freeman
Where does God fit in a world of equals?
Vladimir Shishkin
The canons of the Lenten Triodion are unique. This is an all-encompassing program for Lent!
Priest Clement Nehamaiyah (Nehemiah)
Indian culture appreciates deeds more than words, so preaching unsupported by deeds in India will not bear fruit and will not attract people’s hearts that way silent deeds can.
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
A man who is close to God, my dears, truly feels like a king—he has no need of anything. At the same time, he may have absolutely nothing.
Christ sent the revelation through an angel to His servant the Apostle and Evangelist John, who conveyed the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ about what he saw and heard.
Natalia Vaschina
Sister Ekaterina was shot on March 20, 1938 at the NKVD Butovo training ground.
New Martyr Priest Sergei Mechev
The struggle for the icon is the struggle for the reality of Christ, for the fact that He truly came to earth and lived on it not only as God, but also as man.
Archpriest George Klimov
To what does the Holy Church call us, and what is revealed in a special way or should be revealed to a believer at the end of the first week of Lent?
Archimandrite Tikhon (Agrikov)
Martyrdom is a sign of the chosen, a great gift, and divine mercy.
Archpriest Valery Zakharov
There is a very important lesson in this story for us: We must always be cautious in our actions and words, and try not to let anything defile our fasting.
Igumen Tikhon (Borisov)
Lent is a space of love, kindness, compassion, self-reproach, leniency towards others, penitential tears, watching your heart and soul!
Bishop Irenei (Steenberg)
Forgiveness, real forgiveness, is the liberation of the human heart.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill
For this reason, we have Great Lent, so that through self-restriction, we might discover the opportunity to see the Lord, to have contact with sanctity, and to feel His grace.
St. Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky), Archbishop of Crimea
In order to overcome all the passions without exception, it is necessary to learn abstinence.
Lent is an amazing opportunity for each one of us, for each member of the Church, to escape from the deadening vanity, running around, chattering, and the endless pursuit of some dubious “values”.
Bishop Mitrophan (Znosko-Borovsky)
The Holy Church warns us of the terrible power of sin, and calls us who stand before the doors opening to the Holy Forty Days, to force ourselves and tear ourselves away from the maelstrom of everyday vanity.
Hieromonk Madai (Maamdi)
Today there are thousands of Christian Kurds and hundreds of Iranians who have converted to Orthodoxy on their own. It was from these new converts that the initiative to establish a mission began.
We have to understand that God acts outside of time, and the events of Revelation don’t relate only to the end times.