9/23/2017
Priest Jorge Suez
I began to serve in Spanish in order to make our church and services more open to people around us. For Chileans, including descendants of emigrants, church services have become clearer; in addition, we have begun pastoral work with people of all ages, holding meetings, reading the Bible, and answering questions.
Priest Francisco Salvador
An amazing thing—dozens of young people were ready to become martyrs and die for Christ.
Sergei Mudrov
The parish pays a lot of attention to its work with children and teenagers, because the issues of upbringing, education, and spiritual development of children have always been among the most difficult.
Archpriest Stefan Balan
These days, to be a member of the UOC in the Ternopol Region is a great deed, almost a confession of faith.
Metropolitan Kliment (Vecherya)
For several years now the new statutes of our parishes, dioceses, monasteries and educational institutions haven’t been registered. New parishes, monasteries and convents are being set up in the country, but no one is registering them—they are outside the legal framework.
Despite the change of government in Ukraine in the spring of 2019, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (the UOC-MP) continues to feel pressure from the central authorities, and remains a target of propaganda attacks.
From that moment on, Astrid could no longer imagine her life without Orthodox icons. Another miracle followed in due course: through the icon of St. John the Baptist she received a revelation about her future daughter!
San Francisco in its darker side can ruin your soul and destroy you physically. But the city of St. John, even in our days, can give you peace, consolation and well-being.
Hieromonk Anatoly (Kimbirsky)
Living at the Lavra and serving as the steward’s assistant, I didn’t think of the USA. But in 2016, Bishop Theodosius asked me to help him in San Francisco.
Fr. Edward Henderson
And I’ll be frank—though I didn’t feel that I was on heaven and not on the earth (like Prince Vladimir), I did have another feeling—the Liturgy seemed timeless. It was ancient, present and future at the same time. It seemed as if it were beyond time.
Pukhtitsa Monastery in Estonia is a special place of pilgrimage not only for Orthodox Christians from Russia and the Baltic States, but from many other countries as well.
Archpriest Vladimir Rinkevich
Do I really have integrity? What if I act as a priest in church and am an ordinary guy in the world?
Archpriest Vitaly Babushin
As many Swedes say, they have no choice because Orthodoxy is the only truth. True, everyone has their own path. But if a Swede becomes really interested in his faith and tradition, having failed to find Christ in his Lutheran tradition, then he begins to dig deep in history.
Rating: 9.3|Votes: 56
“Over the past three years I have baptized 500 people, and about seventy-five percent were Muslims. They sincerely love Christianity despite the attempts by nationalists to create a negative image of the Church.“
Sergei Mudrov, Metropolitan Athenagoras (Peckstadt)
Rating: 9.2|Votes: 26
“It should be noted that we live in a fully secularized country. Many people live as if there is no God; they are prejudiced against Church.”
Rating: 9.9|Votes: 15
That is why at this time the most important thing for the Orthodox minority on Malta is to preserve their faith and identity, remaining different in a way that is pleasing to God, despite the Maltese laws and influence of the Catholic majority.
Archpriest Gregory Hallam
Rating: 9.7|Votes: 46
Fr. Gregory had previously served as an Anglican priest, but in 1992 he became disappointed in Anglicanism and embraced Orthodoxy. Three years later he was ordained and since then has served at a parish of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch in Manchester—one of the largest English cities—for over twenty years.
Rating: 9.3|Votes: 25
Irish spirituality, which has not yet become extinct completely and has not yet been eradicated across the country, fills local residents with compassion and kindness, and helps them remain self-sacrificing and not indifferent to the problems of others.
Sergei Mudrov, Fr. Nikolay Evseev
Rating: 9.5|Votes: 13
The purpose of our life is to know God. Athonite monks come to know God through silence and hesychia, through the Jesus Prayer. The world has its own ways—through communication with one other, including in our families, and through struggling with our “selves” and egotism. But if you’re only seeking your personal happiness, even if in God, then you are wrong.
Archimandrite Dimitri (Fantini), Sergei Mudrov
Rating: 5.5|Votes: 2
Some Orthodox people travel to Milan to meet and talk with a man of lofty faith and sincere Christian convictions, living in our own day. Archimandrite Dimitri (Fantini)—a native Italian. Batiushka’s fate and his road to Orthodoxy are one of the multitude of miracles with which God glorifies His Church.
