Priest Konstantin Parkhomenko
The Holy Fathers wrote that someone without Christ is in the dark, like a blind kitten; he understands nothing. And when Christ enters his life, He, as the Sun of Righteousness, illuminates all objects, phenomena and events.
Viktor Luzhkov
For a believer, prayer and participation in the sacraments of the Church become powerful resources that remind the soul, quietly but surely, of the following: You are not alone, because God is always with you.
Maria Tobolova
Biblical plants, which are witnesses of ancient historical events, help us feel our spiritual link with the Christian past and understand the Bible better.
Alexandra Kalinovskaya
Since time immemorial, the teachings of Abba Dorotheos have been an ABC on spiritual life for monastics and pious laypeople alike.
Rev. Dr. Oliver Subotic
Every sin is usually preceded by a simple thought, depending on a person’s particular weakness. If there is no habit of cutting off such thoughts, they gradually grow and develop, eventually enslaving the person.
Ksenia Gubina
We have undertaken our mission of helping children with special needs, and we make every possible effort to fulfill it with dignity—with love for the children and with respect for their parents!
Elena Detinina
In the history of Orthodoxy, there have been many cases when children became holy martyrs for Christ and the Orthodox faith, suffering severe torments.
Vladimir Legoida
An interview about mercy in the modern world, the use of artificial intelligence for religious purposes, the risks for preaching and the phenomenon of Orthodox bloggers, as well as about the education of young people, the crisis of the family, the Church’s attitude towards abortion and the protection of traditional values, from the representative of the Synodal Department for Church Relations with Society and the Media V.R. Legoida and TASS.
As the great spiritual father of our time, Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov), observes, all the wartime “slaughters” of biblical Israel depicted in the Old Testament are but a prefiguration of the mental annihilation of sinful thoughts, so that no trace of them remains.
Bishop Veniamin (Milov)
The saints of Russia shine like bright stars in the Church’s firmament. They shine upon us with the light of their spiritual feats, their moods, their holy words and deeds, inspiring us to imitate them.
The triad of faith–prayer–virtue was the hallmark of Patriarch Ilia, accompanying him throughout his patriarchal ministry.
It makes no difference whether a man carries in his bag a single stone weighing one hundred kilograms, or a thousand pebbles weighing one hundred grams each: on his back he will be carrying the same weight.
We always ask the saint to remain prayerfully in our church and help us comfort the sick.
Here the analogy with medicine is almost complete, with the priest being only a servant of the True Physician of soul and body—the Lord Jesus Christ. It is therefore very important to find a priest who is spiritually experienced, so that he may adequately treat the wounds of our soul.
Repentance is not merely a matter of feeling sorry for having committed a sin. True repentance is precisely what the original word signifies—a change of mind—meaning the acquisition of an entirely new way of thinking and acting.
Priest Tarasiy Borozenets
The saints’ victory does not consist in never having fallen, but in steadfastly pressing toward the goal set before them—the Kingdom of Heaven—and remaining faithful to God until the end.
Ekaterina Silinskaya
From an Orthodox point of view, it’s important to see that behind these external outbursts, there’s almost always internal disorder in the soul.
The key issue is our encounter with God in eternity—those whose souls are healthy will experience that encounter as eternal light, while those whose souls are sick will experience it as eternal darkness.
Natalia Vashchina
As always, the testimony given during the interrogation was twisted around and presented in an absolutely different light. It sounded as if it was not the Bolsheviks who had robbed the Valaam Monastery, but the monks, who “conducted anti-Soviet activities in an illegal apartment monastery and spread various provocative rumors.”
Fr. James Guirguis
The beauty of our faith is that God gives each one of us exactly what we need to grow and become saintly.
