Maria Tobolova
Nun Maria spent almost half of her life—forty-four years—in seclusion and ended her days in the service of God in the angelic—that is, monastic rank.
Almost simultaneously, pagans rose up against Christ and the Church in Denmark, Germany, and the Baltic Slavic principalities. Everywhere the unrest was accompanied by the destruction of churches, and the killing of clergy and other Christians.
Fr. Charalampos Papadopoulos
Unforeseen situations are contrary to God’s will and our desires, and that’s why they seem unforeseen to us. But in fact, they’re not unforeseen.
Archpriest Andrew Lemeshonok
Love is the greatest gift of God that man can receive in this temporary world.
Stanislav Minakov
When she returned to Kiev, Olga brought with her icons, liturgical books, and the determination to convert the Russian people to Christianity.
Sergei Shmel
This ascetic holds a special place among ancient Russian saints and is traditionally revered as the “chief of all Russian monks” because the monastery he founded on the hills of Kiev served as a center and school of ancient Russian monasticism and enlightenment for all of Rus’, for many centuries.
Priest Sergei Chernyak
Indeed, this is our goal—to understand what God wants from us, where to go, how to lead our lives, how to think about God, how to change ourselves.
Fr. James Guirguis
St. Apostle Paul takes an earthly reality and he uses it to bring to light an even greater spiritual reality. He uses this language of freedom and slavery with a completely different purpose.
All those whose destinies crossed the paths in life of the Royal Family unanimously testified to the moral purity of the eldest Princess, her kindness, modesty, sensitivity, and sense of justice.
St. John Chrysostom
So, what does Jesus do? He does something He never did before. In all the other cases He complied with the petitioners’ requests. But here He Himself forestalls the centurion’s wish and promises not only to heal the servant, but also to come to his house.
Archpriest Gregory Dyachenko
The Most Holy Virgin Theotokos is the special protectress of pious Christians.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
Christ had compassion on the sinful woman, as He has compassion on all. We must at least try to see others as they are so that we might share with them Christ’s compassion.
Samuel Noble
The image of the churches harmoniously fitting together as the parts of the body whose sole head is Christ is a key image for Peter’s ecclesiology.
Nikolaos Sotiropoulos
I turned around and saw him. He was tall, with small, round eyes and slight wrinkles in the corner. His beard covered his neck, and from there it divided into three parts. It was black and a little curly.
Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)
In fact, it was not just a ruler who was killed, but a family. It was the terrible and demonstrative murder of a Russian family. They stormed into a domestic church and smashed everything inside, flooding everything with blood, desecrating everything, and then the history of our people in the twentieth century was stained with this blood.
Anton Pospelov
On the eve of the commemoration day of St. Sergius of Radonezh, we asked readers to share their stories about miraculous help from the Abbot of the Russian Land.
Archpriest Stephan Pavlenko
Tsar Nicholas II and his family, like all saints, show people the path they should follow.
Lada Bayeva
For us being together, doing something together and involving other children in this is not just a tradition—it is our way of life.
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
Revelation was written to give us the optimistic message that everything that is, that was, and that will be should not lead us to despair and scare us, but we should know that God will prevail in the end.
The Apostle John greatly wept because there was no one worthy to come and take this book and open it and look upon it.