Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
There were angels at this Liturgy, like every Liturgy, and God allowed everyone to hear their wondrous chanting, which sounded like a giant choir singing. Everyone at the service heard this angelic chanting.
It’s wonderful when the faithful have the good habit of asking God’s blessing for everything in their daily lives.
Evgenia Kalachikhina
His path to faith was not an easy one, which only makes Sergei more grateful now to God and the Most Holy Theotokos. After all, despite all his downfalls, they rescued him from his past sinful life and showed him where the true faith lies.
Tatiana Kotova
We all make mistakes, and as long as we are alive, we have the right to repentance.
Nun Alexandra (Markova)
Mother Paraskeva treated all people with special understanding and respect—even those who didn’t love or understand her, or who had done her harm. She lived with a special sense of inner attention to her heart and soul, fearing to sin before God, whether in deed or thought.
I would like to speak about something of great importance, which, unfortunately, is rarely discussed in Orthodox churches. Let us talk about the labor of prayer, its significance, and how to pray.
Priest Tarasiy Borozenets
The sacrament of Baptism is not a magical rite of “protection.” It is entering into battle under the banner of Christ.
Hieromonk Nilus (Parnas)
The Forerunner demonstrated his love for God by accepting this martyrdom of dishonor.
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.
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.
