4/29/2023
Svetlana Rybakova
As we read St. Nikolai’s writings, it becomes clear that God Jesus Christ is love and the true meaning of human existence.
Archpriest Valentin Asmus
Here, the self-awareness of Byzantium is briefly expressed—a consciousness of the great responsibility of universal service. This service was not to the state, nor to a people or peoples, but to God, to Christ’s truth and righteousness.
We discuss how believers lived during the Soviet era with Mitred Archpriest Valentin Asmus, rector of the Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos in Krasnoye Selo, and Doctor of Theology.
There are many obstetricians and gynecologists among the parishioners of St. Nicholas Cathedral in Serpukhov, some of whom openly say that when medicine seems to be powerless, it often helps to turn to the Mother of God.
Bishop Nestor (Donenko) of Yalta
And the experience of a martyr says that if an external evil is coming, evil thoughts are beginning to attack from inside, your neighbors appear to be very “distant”, and you are betrayed and sold, you understand that there is something that you cannot betray—and a hero appears in literature—but most importantly, a Christian, a martyr appears.
When the time of persecution, sorrows, and illness comes, a person mobilizes and realizes that earthly life is a special space, that it is not a health resort or a sanatorium. There is little point in seeking pleasures and pleasant sensations—that is the greatest illusion.
Mother Anna was, as they say now, an icon of her age. As a little girl, she went to the funeral of Patriarch St. Tikhon with her father.
It would be no exaggeration to say that Mother Anania’s entire life was a prayerful labor of service to the Lord and for the salvation of the souls of others.
St. Alexei Monastery was the first monastery for women in Moscow.
The wonderful stork walked in procession right with the faithful along the side of the road as far as Belynichi—over seven miles!
Having become famous in Moscow, the veneration of the “Three Joys” Icon spread throughout Russia very quickly, but in the Russian iconographic tradition.
In the early twenty-first century, the wonderworking “Unfading Blossom” Icon of the Mother of God, not made by hands, was revealed to the world in Russia’s Samara region.