Metropolitan Serafim (Joanta)
The Eucharist is the principal sacrament of the Church, which creates it.
Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov
And if we wish to learn love, we must also live for the sake of our neighbor. Look around! Here are your neighbors, and each one needs to be shown love, regardless of whether you feel it or not.
Metropolitan Vladimir (Sabodan)
Only the Lord, in whose hand the whole world and all human lives are held, has the authority and miraculous power to fully help a person.
Artemy Slezkin
Here on earth all of us humans are Wanderers and strangers. We are guests who have been allowed to wander here for a short time to collect treasures that will be useful to us in Heaven.
Bogdan Semeniuk
The saint to the great prince, “If you comfort my old age and erect here the temple to the Mother of God, then you will be more glorious than all other princes and your kin will increase, and I will rest with my bones in this city, and the hierarchs will strive to reside here, and its enemies will be defeated.”
St. Philaret (Gumilevsky)
Rejected by the world, she sought nothing more from it and dedicated her entire life to serving the Lord.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)
To avoid being a stumbling block to anyone, we need to learn meekness and humility.
Priest Alexei Taakh
Don’t let sadness overcome your soul. Remember that sadness does not belong to you, but is an external force that can lead you to despondency.
Maria Tobolova
“I explain the severity of the disasters by retribution... for our attitude to the religious question and especially for the attitude of the Russian clergy towards their religious and social mission... Of course, I will never believe in the triumph of atheism among us Russians... Russian religious thought will find its way to revival.”
Hieromonk Pafnuty (Fokin)
Adjusting the medication, the doctors explained their actions to him, ‘Father, we hope that our efforts will help you live till at least 100.’ Fr. Mikhail immediately replied cheerfully, ‘This does not suit me! I want eternal life!’”
Subdeacon Seraphim Nesch
St. Nicholas parish has become a hub for organizing relief efforts, with volunteers gathering here to clear roads and deliver essential items to those in need.
"Then I told myself inwardly that if I survived, I would join a monastery."
St. John of Kronstadt
Only a very pure heart can love all people, and no person has ever had such a pure heart as the Mother of God.
Archpriest Vyacheslav Reznikov
In order to emerge from the darkness surrounding us and come to God, one must do everything in such a way that no praise or thanks is received from anyone.
Fr. Photius was the first to send messages to the Tsar denouncing the wrong religious policies that Alexander I had pursued almost throughout his reign, and the Tsar heeded the archimandrite’s words.
Monk Photius fearlessly set about struggling against Freemasonry, whose representatives were the most influential figures of the Empire.
Priest Sergei Lysy
“They are all filled with love, and I draw love from them, and together we praise, bless and worship God.”
Peter Davydov
How much time and effort does it take to learn at least the basics of this science—to master the ability not to condemn, but to give place to God. Because He knows better.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and Melitopol
What options do the clergy and laity of our Church have after its ban?
Patriarch Tikhon (Bellavin)
What does one say to a city that has lost everything, including its best sons? The holy Patriarch Tikhon, whose memory we celebrate today, came to grieving Yaroslavl as its former archpastor, now Patriarch, to try to assuage their sorrow.