3/25/2016
Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanich)
We’re not primitive creatures who live by the principle of stimulus–response. The Lord didn’t just decide to give us reason.
Metropolitan Onuphry (Berezovsky)
May our souls become blessed deserts where we will go to pray. They are so necessary for our salvation and for the salvation of this world.
Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanich) of Boryspol and Brovary
To be with God and His Church means to bring love and goodness to others, to warm them with care, attention and warmth, to protect them from calamity, to stand in the truth. Always—both in the little things, and in the great ones.
Archpriest Seraphim Gan
Rating: 9.4|Votes: 35
Why does the Phanar act so cautiously with Orthodox in America and yet acts in such an irresponsible way in Ukraine? What is the stand of the ROCOR on the policy of the Phanar in Ukraine?
Rating: 9.4|Votes: 40
His Beatitude answers the questions of his flock about the fast, the Church, and the faith.
Metropolitan Antony (Pakanich), Natalia Goroshkova
Rating: 9.2|Votes: 32
Due to the commotion surrounding the question of autocephaly, the editors of “Pravoslavnaya Zhizn” asked the Chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Antony (Pakanich) to tell about the real state of affairs.
Rating: 10|Votes: 10
His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry speaks on the most important miracle in every man’s life, and the speedy aid and miracles of St. Nicholas by prayers to him.
Natalia Goroshkova, Archimandrite Markell (Pavuk)
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
“Of course, it is easier to say, ‘That is impossible nowadays. I will live my life however I please.’” Archimandrite Markell (Pavuk), confessor of the Kiev Theological Seminary and Academy, advises us not to seek the easy way but always to strive for perfection.
Natalia Goroshkova, Bishop Qais of Erzurum
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
Today the Church in Syria is going through a difficult period of persecutions. Churches, monasteries, convents, and cultural monuments are being destroyed, and people are being killed. In his interview with the Pravlife.org website Bishop Qais (Sadiq) of Erzurum, Vicar of His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch, relates how the Church in Syria is trying to survive during the war.
Natalia Goroshkova, Andrei Muzolph
Rating: 4.1|Votes: 21
Andrei Muzolph, teacher at the Kiev Theological Seminary, speaks on miraculous icons, incorrupt relics, myrrh-streaming relics, holy springs, holy oil and other Orthodox sacred objects.
Laziness almost never visits that house where there are many children. There each member of the family always has many responsibilities with no time to relax. Cooking, laundry, cleaning, work in the garden, and so on—almost every member of the family is constantly busy with these things, except for the very youngest, and no one can refuse these responsibilities. But in small families, where there is one child, or none, it’s hard to avoid being lazy.
Rating: 5.9|Votes: 9
A life not according to the Commandments is comparable to a weapon without a safety, says Archimandrite Markell (Pavuk), spiritual father of the Kiev Spiritual schools.
Natalia Goroshkova, Archimandrite Nazary (Omelyanenko)
Rating: 6.6|Votes: 14
Every believer should go to church on Sundays in order to participate in the Divine Liturgy. Inasmuch as the Resurrection of Christ is the hope of all men we especially honor this day. It is best of all to spend this day after the Liturgy in charitable deeds: visiting the sick, helping those in need, and visiting the elderly. It would also behoove you on Sunday to devote a few hours to reading the Holy Scriptures and saying some prayers.
Archbishop Joachim of Beroun (the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia) talks about the life of this Local Orthodox Church, the difficulties it is faced with, the cooperation among the Slavic Churches and the destructiveness of schisms.
