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Monastic rule: xerophagy (bread, uncooked fruits and vegetables).

Apostles Carpus of the Seventy and Alphaeus (1st c.). New Martyr George the New, of Kratovo (Sofia) (1515).

Martyrs Abercius and Helen, children of Apostle Alphaeus (1st c.). St. John the Confessor, of Psycha on the Bosphorus (9th c.). Uncovering of the relics of St. Macarius, founder of Kalyazin Monastery (1521).

Tabynsk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos. “Lesna” Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1683).

St. Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury, evangelizer of England (ca. 605). St. Synesius, bishop of Carpasia on Cyprus (5th c.). New Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica, at Smyrna (1794). New Hieromartyrs Milan Banjac and Milan Golubovic, of Drvar, Serbia (1941-1945).

Repose of Archimandrite George (Kapsanis) of Gregoriou (2014).

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Ukrainian Church Crisis

An Expression Full of Suffering. The Venerable Martyr Tavrion (Tolokontsev)

An Expression Full of Suffering. The Venerable Martyr Tavrion (Tolokontsev) Commemorated: May 25/June 7 An Expression Full of Suffering. The Venerable Martyr Tavrion (Tolokontsev) Commemorated: May 25/June 7 Natalia Vashchina As always, the testimony given during the interrogation was twisted around and presented in an absolutely different light. It sounded as if it was not the Bolsheviks who had robbed the Valaam Monastery, but the monks, who “conducted anti-Soviet activities in an illegal apartment monastery and spread various provocative rumors.”

Be Holy Fr. James Guirguis Be Holy Fr. James Guirguis The beauty of our faith is that God gives each one of us exactly what we need to grow and become saintly.

Sermon on the Sunday of All Saints

Sermon on the Sunday of All Saints Hieromonk Nikon Sermon on the Sunday of All Saints Hieromonk Nikon Saints are people who lived and still live close to us, but unlike many of us, they are guided neither by the spirit of the modern world, nor by changing public opinion, nor by popular views or customs, but solely by the Spirit of Christ, the Spirit of the Gospel, and the Word of God.

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Holy Blessed Mother Xenia, Pray to God for Us!

Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Holy Blessed Mother Xenia, Pray to God for Us!

I believed in God in my own way, but I didn’t understand why I should be baptized. “Well, I’ll get baptized and have to follow all the rules; but why should I do that?” I thought then. Nevertheless, I often prayed in front of a small icon of Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg—the only saint whose Life I knew and whose help I had clearly felt.

To the Hesitant

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

To the Hesitant

I went down into the water dead in my sins, putrid and rotten. I arose alive and resurrected, iniquity in remission, by the power of the Holy Cross of our Lord and God Jesus Christ.

“The Most Important Thing Is To Become a Saint.”

A talk with Priest Aleksandar Sekulic

Priest Aleksandar Sekulic

Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

“The Most Important Thing Is To Become a Saint.”

A talk with Priest Aleksandar Sekulic

Priest Aleksandar Sekulic

Priest Aleksandar Sekulic is a cleric of St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Belgrade. He answers some questions and talks about the great Serbian archpastors he has seen in his life.

A Pocket God and Blind Shepherds

Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)

Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

A Pocket God and Blind Shepherds

Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)

Our measure is Christ. Truth is known through faith. Reason is a great gift from God, but it must be the servant of faith, and not its judge.

The Martian Chronicles As a Death Sentence to Godless Humanity

Priest Tarasiy Borozenets

Orthodoxy Around the World

The Martian Chronicles As a Death Sentence to Godless Humanity

Priest Tarasiy Borozenets

The modern “Westerner,” Bradbury’s main character, is convinced that changing planets will solve the problem of his suffering on Earth. Changing the scenery does not solve the problem of a corrupted heart.

The Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God with Saints Depicted in the Margins

Zhanna Kurbatova

Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

The Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God with Saints Depicted in the Margins

Zhanna Kurbatova

The intercession of the Most Pure Virgin and the saints is the central theme of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God with saints in the borders.

Archpriest Stefan Pruzhinsky (Prešov, Slovakia): “The practice of frequent Confession is very beneficial“

Archpriest Stefan Pruzhinsky

Orthodoxy Today

Archpriest Stefan Pruzhinsky (Prešov, Slovakia): “The practice of frequent Confession is very beneficial“

Archpriest Stefan Pruzhinsky

I don't think anything will help us now, except for leading a normal Christian life, believing, confessing, praying, and working well for the benefit of society.

The fate of Fairholme: living in The City

Fr. Lawrence Farley

Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

The fate of Fairholme: living in The City

Fr. Lawrence Farley

In Christ we are not simply isolated individuals, cogs in the secular machine relentlessly grinding out “progress”, but members one of another, valued and called to truly authentic human existence.

Faith As a Path: on the Maturation of the Soul and Faithfulness to Christ

Priest Maxim Yanyshevsky

Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Faith As a Path: on the Maturation of the Soul and Faithfulness to Christ

Priest Maxim Yanyshevsky

Having inner integrity is also essential in ordinary life, when you are not afraid to stand out and express your opinions, trying to maintain peace and dialogue with others. This is an indicator of inner maturity and self-sufficiency.

To Be Members of the Church of Christ

Sermon on the feast of the Holy Trinity

Hieromonk Athanasius (Deryugin)

Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

To Be Members of the Church of Christ

Sermon on the feast of the Holy Trinity

Hieromonk Athanasius (Deryugin)

Through the Holy Eucharist, through Communion, we affirm our unity with Christ, we affirm that we, the Church, are the Body of Christ.

Pentecost. The Day of the Holy Trinity

Hieromonk Seraphim (Panich)

Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Pentecost. The Day of the Holy Trinity

Hieromonk Seraphim (Panich)

If you want to understand what the love of God is, then you cannot do without the Trinity. And the mystery of the Holy Trinity is comprehended—only partially—in the experience of spiritual life with ascetic labors.

Come and Abide in Us

Fr. James Guirguis

Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Come and Abide in Us

Fr. James Guirguis

St. Gregory speaks of welcoming the Holy Spirit of God into your hearts as you would welcome your beloved friend or an esteemed guest into your own home.

A Second Saint John of Kronstadt, Priest Jonah Atamansky of Odessa

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A Second Saint John of Kronstadt, Priest Jonah Atamansky of Odessa

Saint John of Kronstadt often said to those from the south: "Why have you bothered to come all this way to see me when you have a man of prayer in Father Jonah?"

Blessed Are They Which Are Persecuted For Righteousness’ Sake

Priest Tarasiy Borozenets

Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Blessed Are They Which Are Persecuted For Righteousness’ Sake

Priest Tarasiy Borozenets

The world seems to have thrown the persecuted one overboard. But it is there, overboard, that he suddenly finds himself very close to the Lord, in His Kingdom.

A Talk on the Ascension of the Lord. Part 4

St. Cleopa (Ilie)

Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

A Talk on the Ascension of the Lord. Part 4

St. Cleopa (Ilie)

He who fears God is above all the sages of this age. Blessed and thrice blessed is he who prepares for the heavenly journey.

A Talk on the Ascension of the Lord. Part 3

St. Cleopa (Ilie)

Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

A Talk on the Ascension of the Lord. Part 3

St. Cleopa (Ilie)

The disciples did not know their Master, they did not know Christ—the Savior of the world Who performed so many miracles. Who revealed to them the mystery of God’s coming to earth and the incarnation of God the Word? The Holy Spirit.

Hecklers, or Measures of Our Christianity

Aleksei Tereschenko

Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Hecklers, or Measures of Our Christianity

Aleksei Tereschenko

It’s easy to think ourselves humble when we’re standing in church surrounded by the fragrance of incense and our brothers and sisters in Christ smile at us. But what is the value of this humility if it falls to pieces when a single stranger yells at us somewhere outside?

A Miracle in Porcelain

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Evgeny Borisov.

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Churches and Monasteries

A Miracle in Porcelain

Photo gallery

Evgeny Borisov.

Ceramic artists Anton and Olga Perov create unique porcelain works in their Moscow workshop.

The Holy Blessed Isidore Tverdislov, Fool-for-Christ and Wonderworker of Rostov

Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

The Holy Blessed Isidore Tverdislov, Fool-for-Christ and Wonderworker of Rostov

Strong was the blessed one’s love for the Lord, and for this the Lord glorified him with His grace.

A Talk on the Ascension of the Lord. Part 2

Archimandrite Cleopa (Ilie)

Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

A Talk on the Ascension of the Lord. Part 2

Archimandrite Cleopa (Ilie)

When the Heavenly powers saw the Savior removing the gates on high, all the angels blew their trumpets, everyone started singing, and in a chorus of great rejoicing and great singing, Christ ascended and abolished—did not open, but abolished—the gates of Heaven.

A Talk on the Ascension of the Lord. Part 1

Archimandrite Cleopa (Ilie)

Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

A Talk on the Ascension of the Lord. Part 1

Archimandrite Cleopa (Ilie)

Have you heard what Jesus Christ came down for? For the sake of love. Have you heard what He ascended for? To lift us up, the children of man, not in one day, not in two, not in a year, not in a hundred years, not in a thousand or ten thousand years, but all the days of old—that is, as long as the world stands.

“Be vigilant! Seek salvation, my joys!”

The life and work of volunteers in Diveyevo Convent

Elena Belovitskaya

Churches and Monasteries

“Be vigilant! Seek salvation, my joys!”

The life and work of volunteers in Diveyevo Convent

Elena Belovitskaya

Anyone who has once decided to travel to Diveyevo as a volunteer will surely say that his life was divided into “before” and “after.”

True Freedom. The Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council

Homily on the Seventh Sunday after Pascha

Archimandrite John (Krestiankin)

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

True Freedom. The Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council

Homily on the Seventh Sunday after Pascha

Archimandrite John (Krestiankin)

And the story of the fall starts over again. Our fore-parents fell from paradise to earth; modern gods fall from earth to hell.

Blessed Simon of Yuryevets: a Saint Who Walked on the Water

Feasts: May 10/23 and November 4/17

Sergei Vityazev

Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Blessed Simon of Yuryevets: a Saint Who Walked on the Water

Feasts: May 10/23 and November 4/17

Sergei Vityazev

Blessed Simon made many prophecies: he foresaw fires, foretold deaths and other events.

The Translation of St. Nicholas’ Relics to Bari: A Quasi-Detective Story

Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

The Translation of St. Nicholas’ Relics to Bari: A Quasi-Detective Story

For over nine centuries now, it has been home to a priceless treasure of the Orthodox world—the relics of the illustrious saint and wonderworker—St. Nicholas of Myra.