Maria Pukhova
And then something pricked my heart: it was St. Gabriel who reminded Mother about me! And I asked: “We need an icon of St. Gabriel for the church in the Kuban. If possible, please consecrate it on the relics of the venerable one: people are waiting!”
Fr. James Guirguis
The Fox snuck in to fool you. He hates you and everything that you are — as a faithful and vigilant rooster — and the next time he comes around here it won’t be to steal eggs, it will be to eat you!
Priest Alexei Guglivaty
Blessed Afanasy Saiko was a faithful child of the Russian Orthodox Church during the twentieth-century persecutions.
Svetlana Rybakova
The Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God is the oldest and most significant sacred relic in the life of the Russian people.
Alexandra Kalinovskaya
On the first Sunday of September, the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)
The goal of the Christian life is neither victory in disputes nor proving ourselves right, but love, peace, and the salvation of souls.
After Fr. Vladimir’s death, his image began appearing to the chief prison administrator. Wherever the man went and whatever he did, the aged priest stood before his eyes.
Natalia Vashchina
Very often, those who opposed sectarianism in the Russian Empire stood up to defend the Mother Church against the encroachments of the so-called Living Church followers (Renovationists) after the collapse of the great country.
Fr. Vasilios Waicha
To understand today’s transformation, one must look directly at the sweat, prayers, and blood of African pioneers.
Nun Alexandra (Markova)
In 1653, this icon was delivered to Russia as a gift to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, together with a document describing its origin and veneration and several copies of the icon.
While alms were being distributed to impoverished monks at the Great Monastery Gates of St. Panteleimon Monastery, Monk Gabriel took a photograph. When he developed it, to his great astonishment he saw on the black-and-white photograph an image of the Mother of God humbly receiving a blessed piece of bread.
Vasilios Waicha
The Church in Africa belongs to Jesus Christ. An African priest is an active participant in the Universal Church, guided by a history of sacrifice, a trained conscience, and a deep responsibility to God and his people.
Dmitry Kiryukhin
One day, already completely desperate, sitting at my laptop, I prayed: “Lord, help me!”
Priest Leonid Bartkov
Every year at the end of August, the Orthodox world is immersed in the experience of an event that at first glance seems paradoxical. We celebrate death.
St. Nikolai (Velimirovic)
There is nothing in this world more loathsome than ingratitude, nothing more offensive or more destructive to the soul.
Zhanna Kurbatova
In 1204, the Crusaders sacked Constantinople and carried the Image Not Made by Hands away from the Byzantine Empire. Its subsequent fate remains unknown.
Hieromonk Athanasius (Deryugin)
Her whole life was an example for all of us Christians; and Her Dormition is also an example for us, so that our passing into eternal life might be peaceful and calm, as if falling asleep.
Fr. Dn. Paul Siewers
To follow St. Laurence in witness, without tempting God but with a desire to bear witness without compromising our faith in our Lord, is not just sentimental idealism, but a form of spiritual warfare.
St. Tikhon of Zadonsk
Christians must fear sinning, lest they lose the grace of God.
Standing above Lake Onega, the Church of the Transfiguration seems at once monumental and almost weightless. Its massive pine logs anchor it firmly to the earth, while the ascending tiers of silver-gray domes draw the eye upward.
