Hieromonk Joasaph (Kurakulov)
Liturgy is a common work—I’m sure of it. Some amazing people, some amazing helpers have gathered around me.
Conrad Franz
In this part of our interview, Conrad Franz talks about his own path to Orthodoxy, Orthodox media, the demographics of the Church in the US, and the conversion blooming deep in the heart of Texas.
Abbess Olympiada (Baranova)
Abbess Olympiada shared her story about her spiritual mother and her experience of the continuity of the traditions of Russian female monasticism.
The northernmost Orthodox church in America was built in 1992 and consecrated in honor of Saint Herman of Alaska. Last summer, the husband and wife film team, Mikhail and Ekaterina P, spoke with its rector, Father Andrew, about Orthodox traditions and the special nature of serving the Church in Alaska.
Hieroschemamonk Iulian (Lazăr)
If you give a child something, it enters his mind and spins around in there—just like that. Let prayer spin around in there rather than something else.
Abbess Elizabeth (Smelik)
The procession is chiefly dedicated to the estate owners: Empress Consort Maria Alexandrovna, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and his wife, the holy Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, but many people also walk in the procession with icons of the holy Royal Passion-Bearers Tsar Nicholas II and his family.
Bishop Joseph (Korolev)
Our elders could combine unceasing prayer and work. True, it’s not total stillness—we won’t see it at the Optina Monastery. But there was the path of cenobitic monasticism, there was monastic life in the skete and there was eremitic life.
The elders of Optina were skilled spiritual physicians who penetrated into the very depths of the human soul.
Nun Cornelia (Rees), Seraphim Collins, Ph.D.
The world became completely fallen, and God was somewhere else. But in Orthodoxy it’s much more complicated than that.
Priest Georgy Firsov
Just fifty years ago, these things weren’t even said out loud—it was simply understood by all that you do not abandon your wife and children. Yes, there were divorces, but not in these numbers. It used to be shameful to divorce. But today? There’s no shame—on the contrary, it’s often celebrated.
Archpriest Pavel Gumerov
Love is not an emotion, but a chain of actions, it is an effort, a direction of the will.
We can discuss many things and debate current events for days, but if we do not understand that without God we will be completely lost, then I am afraid there will be even more problems.
Everyone is susceptible to the midlife crisis: both successful people who have achieved great results and have made a good career, and those people who feel that they have achieved nothing.
Our people have never known such a Mother who could gather us all under Her protection.
Hieromonk Silouan (Yaroslavtsev)
I arrived in a city where all the stores were closed on Sundays, even including grocery stores. It seems to me that if we call ourselves an Orthodox nation, we could learn from them.
Marilyn Swezey
I did not know that yet, but in a dream, I saw Jose. He was in a Liturgy and looked wonderful.
We have a total of sixteen teams! Each has its own leader, capable of answering any question.
When they understand they are treated with sincere love and an open heart, they respond in kind.
Archpriest Alexander Nikolsky
What food restrictions should you impose on yourself if you are on vacation during a fast? Do you have to keep a fast if you get sick? Should you ask for the priest’s blessing for relaxations during the fast if you have chronic diseases?
Ilia Krasovitsky
The Vigil is a very important service for the Christians. And, of course, questions arise: How should we pray properly at this service, what parts does it consist of, and what is its meaning?
