Elena Blinova
I regarded this role as my calling to serve the Church, and I have never entertained the idea of looking for a different job or discontinuing this ministry.
Matushka Rose Legouté
We believe that God will reestablish His authority in Haiti. We have confidence that we will survive. We are praying for support from our friends so we can face this situation with their help.
Hieromonk Theodosy (Khamenia)
Most importantly, the monastery keeps praying for the whole world, night and day.
When we restore a church, we restore ourselves.
Hierodeacon Christopher
Somehow Kosovo is calling us, the people of the twenty-first century, lost in the chaos of our restless and spiteful world.
Abbess Maria (Miros)
Mother Maria was born in Australia and obtained a degree in medicine. But feeling a special call from God, she became a nun. We talked about the convent, choosing the monastic path, and repentance.
Priest Alexei Bordzelovsky
As for motivation, you should ask yourself the question: “Do I want to be with God or not?”
Bishop Alexei (Trader) of Alaska
We have examples of saints, including modern ones, who show with their lives that holiness can be achieved.
Archpriest Alexander Saltykov
Maslenitsa—Cheesefare Week—has begun. During this time, both fasting and the absence of fasting, festivity and thoughts of death, resurrection, and the Last Judgment are paradoxically united.
Priest Stanislav Rasputin
Locals are sincerely interested in the Orthodox faith and have the desire to study the faith.
Priest Kirill Zholtkevich
My spiritual training began with my grandfather, a priest. He took me into the altar when I was four. Since then I have been in church and have always been surrounded by clergy.
Metropolitan Mark (Arndt)
We are under daily pressure from both sides, from the Israelis and the Palestinians. Christians have a very difficult life here.
Archpriest Nikolai Fedko
Now that churches are open and services are celebrated, it is sometimes very sad to see that people who call themselves Orthodox do not value this priceless gift—such intimate and living communion with God.
Fr. Nicholas Esterhuisen
We conduct services in English and Church Slavonic, but we also try to add other languages, such as Xhosa and Afrikaans. This way, everyone will hear their native language during the service and realize that Orthodoxy is their faith as well.
Bishop Euthymius (Moiseyev)
That’s why faith is needed, and, to be more precise, trust in God. We need the experience of overcoming evil in its various manifestations, and the Lord can be known and revealed to us in overcoming trials.
In Orthodoxy, Divine Providence is called good and all-perfect—that is, it always works for the good of man, guiding him to salvation.
Abbess Xenia (Pashkova)
Once a star of the stage, singer and director Tatiana Pashkova left a successful career, her beloved theater, and became not simply a nun, but the abbess of the Iveron Convent in the city of Orsk.
I do not expect any justice from any court in Ukraine. It is a country that is totally steeped in the prosecution of Christians.
Elena Volodina
If you desire mercy, give it to others yourself.
Archpriest Vladimir Vigilyansky
The Christmas story suggests another very important thing. The angel of the Lord said to the shepherds, “Fear not!”