4/20/2016
The prayer of every human being is of cosmic importance—that is, it has an effect not only on somebody individually, or his family and immediate circle of friends, but also on the entire world.
Well-known Russian pastors speak about what will happen at the universal resurrection of mankind and why we mustn’t postpone the Paschal experience until later, just hoping for the best.
Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin)
Rating: 10|Votes: 25
The following is a story of the Nativity celebrated throughout a difficult, yet joyful life, through which shines the more than two thousand year old history of this event most important for mankind.
Olga Orlova, Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin)
Rating: 10|Votes: 6
Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin), spiritual father of His Holiness, ascetically struggled on Mt. Athos for more than ten years in one of the sketes of St. Panteleimon Monastery—the Old Russikon. Namely there, at the mill just a few decades earlier Venerable Silouan the Athonite carried out his obedience. In 1967 the book of his life and teachings became a spiritual guide for the now-revered elder, then novice Alexei of the Pskov Caves Monastery
Nikita Filatov, Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin)
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
You asked about the family. Family is a cell, a small part of our community. The condition and strength of the family determines the condition of society. The weakening of the family threatens dire consequences. It's all the loss of morality, the loss of the conscience, the loss of awareness, the loss of an orientation, of that which is important in life.
Rating: 8.2|Votes: 5
What is prayer? Prayer is conversation with God. We nourish ourselves every day. We maintain our own physical existence until the last minute of our lives. But true spiritual life is beyond the scope of this world—it is our relationship with God, and it happens through prayer.
An indifferent relationship to our neighbor, indifference to another’s problems, apathy as an ordinary state of the soul… This has become almost the norm. Why is indifference so widespread today? What should a Christian do if he feels a deadness of soul? How can a pastor avoid looking like the priest from parable of the Good Samaritan? And how can we combine responsiveness of soul and its ability to share in others’ sorrows and joys with an indifferent attitude towards the good things of this world and the world itself? To answer these questions we went to see the experienced elder, Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin) of Optina Monastery.
