12/13/2012
Anton Pospelov
On the eve of the commemoration day of St. Sergius of Radonezh, we asked readers to share their stories about miraculous help from the Abbot of the Russian Land.
My heart beats mightily in my breast, / As in trembling expectation, / Of some great impending happiness, / Gone, winter’s tribulations!
The sister who was overhearing the conversation couldn’t help but think: “A dog’s death.” Batiushka suddenly turned to her and said: “You mustn’t think like that.”
Today we’re publishing selected stories about the clairvoyance of Fr. John.
Wise words by the holy fathers on fasting, posted at the end of the Apostle’s fast, but good to know all year long.
Few patrons in the entire history of ancient Russian art could compare with Metropolitan Jonah III in the scope and consistency of the implementation of his plan, according to which an image of Paradise on Earth was to appear not far from Lake Nero in the center of the ancient city of Rostov.
On November 8 (October 26 according to the old calendar), 1640, the feast-day of Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki, the Christians of Athens were to be exterminated according to the sophisticated scheme of Yusuf, the Aga of Athens.
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On the eve of commemoration day of Blessed Xenia, we asked our readers to share their stories about the saint’s miraculous help.
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In 2015 Al-Maghtas was added by UNESCO to the World Heritage list as a site associated with the Baptism of Jesus Christ.
Anton Pospelov, Archbishop Tikhon (Dorovskikh)
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We are talking with Archbishop Tikhon about the life of residents of Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands, whether Orthodox or non-religious; about the issues, challenges and joyful events of the diocese which has celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary this year; and the region’s spiritual make-up.
Anton Pospelov, Yuri Pushchaev
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Pravoslavie.ru asked clergymen and experts from Kiev and Moscow to comment on last week’s scandalous and shocking decision by the Synod of the Constantinople Patriarchate to revoke the Tomos of 1686 that transferred the Ukrainian Metropolia to the Moscow Patriarchate, and to remove the anathema from the heads of the Ukraine’s uncanonical structures—the “Kiev Patriarchate” and the “Ukrainian autocephalous Orthodox Church”, etc.
Rating: 9.4|Votes: 25
I’ve never seen anything like it anywhere. Now I always pray to St. Panteleimon when someone is sick and ask for his help for my family and friends. I advise all to pray to this wondrous saint more often.
Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Pskov and Porkhov
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Today, July 2, 2018, is the sixtieth birthday of Metropolitan Tikhon of Pskov and Porkhov, the chairman of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, and editor-in-chief of the Russian website, Pravoslavie.ru.
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On November 22, 1920, in a modest Athens hospital reposed an old monk in a worn-out cassock. For two months he lay in the terminally ill ward, burning with cancer. He had no money and no Panagia, although he had the episcopal dignity.
Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Egorievsk, Anton Pospelov
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Eleven students of Eton College, the most privileged English school, visited Russia on a personal, non-official tour that included Moscow and St. Petersburg. The students became acquainted with their Russian counterparts, and also met with President Vladimir Putin. Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Egorievsk, Father Superior of Moscow’s Sretensky Monastery, talked with a correspondent of Pravoslavie.ru about how the trip was organized, and gave his impressions of the young British men.
Anton Pospelov, Archpriest Andrew Phillips
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The editors of Pravoslavie.ru website have asked Archpriest Andrew Phillips, Rector of the Church of St. John of Shanghai in Colchester (England), to share his views on what is going on in England after the Brexit referendum.
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The Pravoslavie.ru website is offering you a gallery of selected photographs of Holy Russia (Rus’) in winter—its nature, people and churches. We wish our readers to spend the Christmas holidays to the benefit of body and soul.
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limasol
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Confession is the simplest way to learn what people think about and to understand their problems or concerns. I am very happy when people view their bishop as their father. I am happy when I know that people can come to my church and find me there to tell me about their problems.
Vladimir Igorevich Bogachev, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences and professor at Moscow State Lomonosov University, spoke about science, faith and leading scientists who became confessors of Orthodoxy in the 20th century: petroleum scientist V.N. Shchelkachev, mathematicians D.F. Yegorov and N.N. Luzin, and geologist and secret priest Gleb Kaleda.
Anton Pospelov, Abbess Moisseia (Bubnova)
Rating: 5.5|Votes: 2
I ended up in the Holy Land almost by accident. But of course nothing happens by accident in this world. In 1974, I wished to travel to Russia, but I was refused a visa. Our batiushka, Fr. Dimitry Khvostoff, was in the process of organizing a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and his daughter invited me to go, to be Fr. Dimitry’s helper. I agreed. I did not think that I would once again come to the Holy Land and stay for good, that the Holy Land was to be my home. Everything here was so sacred, so remote, so lofty! I fell in love with the Holy Land from the very first day.
Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), Anton Pospelov
It was all a very homey atmosphere. The head cowboy, for example, said, “We have with us today John and Mary. They are on their honeymoon trip. Let’s give them a warm welcome! Let’s be glad for them, that they are so beautiful and young, have had their wedding and are now travelling around our country. John and Mary, come on up!” This young couple comes forward and everyone shouts, “John and Mary, hello! All the best to you!” This was touching, what can I say…
It all began when some Chinese people calling themselves Christians expressed the desire to make my acquaintance after one of them read my book, Everyday Saints in English. To tell you the truth, these new acquaintances of mine couldn’t really say what confession they are in—they just read the Gospels, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, pray to Him, and firmly and stubbornly consider themselves Christians. Some of them are not baptized at all, others were baptized by Protestants, yet others by Catholics…
