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Orthodoxy in India: Missionary Activity
Priest Clement Nehamaiyah (Nehemiah)
Indian culture appreciates deeds more than words, so preaching unsupported by deeds in India will not bear fruit and will not attract people’s hearts that way silent deeds can. -
The Church of Christ Cannot be Closed or Cancelled
Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye
What options do the clergy and laity of our Church have after its ban? -
Ioan David, the Shepherd of God
Cristian Curte
All his life, brother Ioan was neither a priest nor a monk, but a simple shepherd. -
"When I came to Russia in 1958, I could see that the Russia I had been reading about was still alive."
An interview with Dr. James H. Billington
Dr. James H. Billington, the distinguished scholar and Librarian of Congress, recently visited the Moscow Sretensky Monastery. We asked Dr. Billington about how he came to love Russia, about Christianity in America, and about his impressions of the Sretensky Monastery Choir and the book, Everyday Saints and Other Stories. -
Invisible Ascetics of the Bukovina Mountains
Part 1. Climbing Giumalau Mountains
The tradition of eremitic life in Romania has never been interrupted: it is still alive, and monks continue to struggle in gorges and precipices. -
Celebrating Thirty Years of Sretensky Monastery
A Photo Gallery
We present this chronological photo collection from the monastery's first days of rebuilding and renewal under the leadership of Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov), to the present day. -
Super Jump—a Jump into the Abyss
Priest Tarasiy Borozenets
“Super Jump” is not just a commercial pyramid selling a dubious method of personal success, but a networked neo-pagan sect with its own doctrine and cult practice. -
A “Mission Possible” to the Ancestors of the Magi: Orthodox Kurds and Other Iranian Peoples
Hieromonk Madai (Maamdi)
Today there are thousands of Christian Kurds and hundreds of Iranians who have converted to Orthodoxy on their own. It was from these new converts that the initiative to establish a mission began. -
Australia. Convent. Repentance
Abbess Maria (Miros)
Mother Maria was born in Australia and obtained a degree in medicine. But feeling a special call from God, she became a nun. We talked about the convent, choosing the monastic path, and repentance.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill
2/3/2012
Christmas Message by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia
A Family Catastrophe
Sermon on the Feast Day Holy Great Martyr Barbara, delivered in Christ the Savior Cathedral, 2010
Sermon on Wednesday of the First Week of Great Lent
Delivered March 1, 2023, in Christ the Savior Cathedral, Moscow
The Dedication of a Child to God Has Great Spiritual Significance
Sermon on the Feast of the Entrance of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple, delivered in the St. Alexander Nevsky Skete, 2020
A Blessing on Our Families
Patriarchal sermon given on the feast of the Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos after Liturgy in the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin (January 8, 2020)
With Christ as Our Foundation
A Homily on the Thirteenth Sunday of Pentecost
A Living Realization of the Beatitudes
A Sermon on the Day of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk
Patriarchal and Synodal Epistle of the Russian Orthodox Church for the 1,030th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus’
The Patriarch’s Word. Podvig
The 13th Week After Pentecost
Paschal Message of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia
Holiness is not a Synonym for Weakness: a Word from the Patriarch in the Third Week of Lent
The Word of Patriarch Kirill at Forgiveness Vespers 2011
The example of St. Catherine the Great Martyr
Word of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill after Divine Liturgy in St. Catherine’s Cathedral, Krasnodar
Message of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill to Primates and representatives of Local Orthodox Churches who have assembled in Crete
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s homily delivered after thanksgiving at Russian Monastery of St. Panteleimon on Mt. Athos
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s condolences over terrorist attacks in Brussels
Russian Greetings to His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos on the anniversary of his election to the primatial See of the Church of Greece
Russian Greetings to His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana and All Albania on his Name's Day
Christmas Greetings of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion to Heads of Non-Orthodox Churches
To the Families and Friends of the Victims in the Terror Actions in the Capital of Mali
“Go in peace to this cross-bearing, sacrificial labor!” His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s homily at the consecration of His Eminence Tikhon (Shevkunov)
Message by Patriarch Kirill on the Occasion of the Millennium of the Repose of the Holy Prince Vladimir Equal-to-the-Apostles
Sermon by His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill, on the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord in Moscow’s Church of Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill: There can be no winner in civil war
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill: “One of the most important concerns of our Church today is prayer and work for a resolution to what is currently happening in the Ukraine”
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill Appeals to the Entirety of the Russian Orthodox Church on Current Events in Ukraine
Living in the Spirit. Sermon on the feast of St. Hilarion in Sretensky Monastery.
A Word from the Patriarch. "Love is the most important thing in life"
Homily by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill at the Liturgy in the Kiev Caves Lavra, Celebrating the Baptism of Russia
Paschal Message of His Holiness KIRILL Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
The Way to a Happy Life. A homily given at the Vigil Service for the Triumph of Orthodoxy, Sretensky Monastery
Christmas Message of His Holiness Patriarch KIRILL of Moscow and All Russia
Epistle of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to the Archpastors, Pastors, Deacons, Monastics and the Faithful Flock of the Russian Orthodox Church on the Fifth Anniversary of the Signing of the Act of Canonical Communion between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
New material
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To Each His Own Way
About the life of Alexander Krainev, the wanderer from Vologda
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On the Proper Approach to Prayer
Conversation on Repentance and Prayer, Part 3
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On Confession
Conversation on Repentance and Prayer, Part 2
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Orthodox representatives condemning blasphemous “examination” of Kiev Caves relics
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On Repentance
Conversation on Repentance and Prayer, Part 1
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‘Our Founder Saint’: An Interview with Bishop Irenei About the Centenary of the Repose of Patriarch Tikhon
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The Day God Adopted the Human Race
Hieromonk Pavel (Shcherbachev)
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2,698 Days on the Way of the Cross, Documented
Historian Dmitry Pavlov on the New Website, The Way of the Cross of Patriarch Tikhon
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On the Difference Between the Old and the New Testaments
Sr. Joanna
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On Repentance. St. Mary of Egypt
Priest John Pavlov
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