1/18/2014
Priest Sergei Begiyan
Rating: 10|Votes: 55
Battle is the main sign of Lent. Therefore, fasting has nothing in common with a diet. When someone begins to withhold himself for the sake of Christ, he is immediately included in a realty of a different order. And in this reality, everything has meaning and weight.
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 38
It is crystal clear that our society is infected with a shortage of love. I think that our contemporaries, choked up in the general atmosphere of enmity (because of the lack of love), above all expect love from the Church. That is why above all we should tell those on the outside that God is love.
Rating: 8,7|Votes: 41
To understand that Patriarch Bartholomew is by no means a good doctor, that he pursues completely specific materialistic goals, we must forget for a while about the current conflict and recall another. We must remember the Greek Orthodox Church.
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 28
I had a very spiritually turbulent youth. The results of these “adventures” were my spiritual experience and a moral right to judge the spiritual phenomena I lived through.
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 35
Who is the real Prophet Elias? He is a saint. He was the kind of prophet who could take a sword and stab 450 false prophets to death. Though St. Elias is in Heaven, he never died. Though he is a righteous man of the Old Testament, he revealed new amazing truths about God to us.
Yuri Pushchaev
Rating: 8,4|Votes: 20
So should priests marry all who ask for it only because the engaged couple wants it? How can we bring home to newlyweds the importance and greatness of this holy sacrament?
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 34
Indeed all the canonized righteous people make up only one percent of the total number of saints at most. And it is not because the righteous are few in number.
Just imagine: Your child took something precious to you without asking and broke it, although you had told him many times not to touch it. You say to him, “No problem. Good boy. Keep playing.”
Valery Dukhanin, Igumen Nektary (Morozov), Priest Sergei Begiyan, Priest Dimitry Fetisov
Rating: 6|Votes: 2
The fourth Sunday after Pascha is dedicated to the Gospel of the paralytic, who spent thirty-eight years by the pool of Siloam waiting for healing, and was finally delivered from his serious infirmity by the Savior Himself. That unfortunate man was physically paralyzed, while we are spiritually paralyzed to one or another degree.
Rating: 7,8|Votes: 4
The most important trait of holy water is its incorruptibility, without having any change to its chemical composition. Incorruption belongs to the Kingdom of Heaven, and when we sprinkle something with holy water, we want to impart to it God’s grace, present in the water. And the first place we all want to see sanctified is our home.
