Hieromonk Sebastian (Kuznetsov)
In our deceitful times, let us keep the faith pure, as the Apostles Peter and Paul and other disciples of Christ preached it to us.
Archpriest Sergei Tishkun
At the age of fifteen, Arsenios was vouchsafed a miraculous appearance of the Savior. After that event, Arsenios began to struggle even more zealously. Whenever someone wanted to marry him off to some lady, he strongly objected: “No, I will be a monk! I am not for this world.”
Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)
People are telling the truth, and they are persecuted for it. But when they die, after a while, people start saying that they are holy people
Returning from Poltava after the victory, Peter the Great en route called in on his associate and friend at the Borisovka estate in the Kursk province and stayed there for six weeks. There Sheremetev revealed to the Emperor his heart’s desire to build a convent.
Konstantin Tsertsvadze
This was the answer! A living, instantaneous answer to my prayers from His Holiness. All my life I had dreamed of simply being near him, to at least catch a glimpse of him… And now he left me a guardian at his tomb!
Hieromonk Philofei (Makharramov)
His life was very hard and even brutal. He wore clothing woven from camel’s hair, which was very rough and uncomfortable, ate locusts and wild honey, lived in the wilderness, and died a martyr’s death, suffering for the truth—the holy Forerunner was beheaded.
Priest Leonid Bartkov
“What is it that you’d like to confess?” - “Well, I think I need to cleanse my karma. Lately my financial flow has been blocked, and my love life has completely stagnated. Could you perform an exorcism?”
Fr. James Guirguis
It is sometimes glamorized in horror movies as well as in pop culture but possession is a serious and very real phenomenon and nothing to take lightly.
A candle is not a “payment” for the fulfillment of a wish. It is a visible sign of the invisible movement of the soul.
A family crisis is not a broken machine that needs to be repaired by a neighbor. It is a surgical procedure that God performs on your souls
Archpriest Valery Lukianov
There he stands—a righteous man of our own times, a true non-possessor, seeking no glory in the dignity of the episcopate, aspiring neither to honors nor to splendid vestments; a good shepherd, ever the first to set an example of loving care for his neighbor; an intercessor before God for mankind, through whom many received healing and the fulfillment of their hopes.
Tatiana Kennedy (Urusova)
Although he could be strict with us, we were drawn to Vladyka, and whenever we saw him walking through the city, we ran to him to receive his blessing.
Viktor Grigoryevich Bichikov
We planted our own garden; we tied ropes to the plow, and mostly women pulled it instead of horses, while we children planted the potatoes.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)
Finally, never forget whose you are. We have been purchased at a great price—the Blood of the Crucified God.
Alexandra Gripas
It turned out that Sonya had found and disturbed a wasps’ nest. Several wasps immediately stung her in the head and arm. That it was very painful was only half of the trouble. What was worse that my daughter began to swell right before my eyes, and her arms, legs, and face grew enormously big.
Heaven bowed before us that day. God breathed eternity into your soul and called you by name. And this love has no statute of limitations.
H. David Sauls
A deep analysis of the current situation, the legal initiatives of the Kosovo government, and the international reaction demonstrates that the threats to the existence of the Serbian Church and Serbian cultural heritage in Kosovo and Metohija have acquired a systemic character.
Alexandra Kalinovskaya
St. Methodius carried logs for the monastery on foot across the river—hence the name, St. Nicholas-Peshnosha Monastery, which he founded. St. Methodius built the monastery on his own, “performing great labors”, as the prayer to the saint says.
We must always remember that God Himself is here, close beside us, extending His invisible hand to help us.
Elena Butarova
He baptized Prince Vladimir in Chersonesos, instructed him in the faith. It was he who headed the Baptism of the Kievan people in the waters of the Dnieper River.
