2/20/2023
Anna Golik
These three crosses were a foreshadowing of the three monasteries where St. Tamar was destined to become the abbess and bear three difficult podvigs.
Geraldio Lau Gefaldo
On the feast of St. Sergius of Radonezh, we told readers stories of people in whose lives the “Abbot of the Russian Land” participated in a special way. One of the heroes was Geraldio Lau Gefaldo, a translator of the Patriarchal Exarchate in South-East Asia (the Russian Orthodox Church) from Indonesia, who received the name Sergius in Holy Baptism. Today he has shared his story with us: how he learned about Russia, how he converted to Orthodoxy, and what it means to be a Christian in Indonesia.
Priest Nikolai Konyukhov
Having received grace from the Lord and the joy of communion with God in the church, you should spread it to people.
Bishop Kirill (Zinkovsky)
Bishop Kirill has talked about what it means to be a monastic in the twenty-first century, why you can be a scholarly monk as an obedience, and how to determine whether a seminarian will grow to be a true pastor.
