2024 can be remembered by many as a year of Christian suffering.
Sednaya’s historic monastery lights up with a towering tree, bringing joy to a city scarred by more than a decade of war.
Matthew Namee
Lately, a meme has been circulating online, claiming that the number of Orthodox Christians in America has grown from 700,000 to six million in just four years, 2020 to 2024. This is a complete fiction – but it has quite a history.
On Monday, November 18, 2024, the feast day of Holy Confessor Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, the burial of Archbishop Peter of Chicago and Mid-America took place at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and Melitopol
I ask everyone not to dance to someone’s pipe, not to be pharisees, to not give our enemies yet another excuse to mock our Mother-Church.
Orthodox Ethos has published a clip from the upcoming documentary “Christianities? Journey to the Heart of the Faith,” featuring journalist Tucker Carlson describing a harrowing spiritual experience he recently had.
Using Ukraine as an example, the Phanar is implementing a strategy of union that may later be applied on a broader level.
The participants condemned the war waged by Israel against Lebanon and its citizens, accompanied by assassinations, killing of innocent citizens, destruction, forced migration, and displacement.
What options do the clergy and laity of our Church have after its ban?
Since the days of Galileo, science and faith have frequently been at odds with each other. But inside Professor Liberato De Caro’s laboratory, they seem to be in union.
Our only “guilt” lies in our desire to follow God’s Law and our refusal to compromise with the world, to call evil good.
Archpriest Victor Potapov
The Parish temple is indissolubly linked to the family life of its parishioners. The Orthodox family, in the words of St. Paul, is the “home church.” The parish can be considered a kind of confederacy of all the small churches that are Orthodox households. If an Orthodox family remains closely connected to the church the true spirit of the church naturally pervades it, forming fertile ground for its members’ spiritual growth and development.
Athanasios Zoitakis
The saint was not only an outstanding Orthodox enlightener; he is truly considered a great prophet of latter times. St. Cosmas of Aitolia left a great number of stunningly exact prophecies about the future of mankind (about scientific inventions, wars, and ecological catastrophes). Many of his predictions have already come to pass, while others are still awaiting their fulfillment.
Bishop Benjamin of Rybinsk and Romanov-Borisoglebsk
When the Lord calls you, you have to answer yourself whether it is your path or not. You cannot go to a monastery because it is beautiful or right, but because you love God and want to serve Him.
Metropolitan Vadim (Lazebny)
If we can send a spiritual “recruit” out of our midst into the monastic “army”, then we are more or less spiritually healthy. If a monastery becomes a center that attracts those seeking spiritual life, then many problems of people in the world will disappear too.
Flavius Mihaies
Ukrainians are dying on the frontline while fighting to preserve their faith.
On my own behalf and on behalf of the flock entrusted to me by God, in response to this appeal, I would like to emphasize once again that the unity of the Church of God can only be achieved by the return to Her fold of those who have strayed from the Truth and taken the path of falsehood.
The real life of a parish arises from the depths of the human soul, forged into unity by shared spiritual experiences and conjoined in the sacraments and prayers carried out under the shared roof of one sanctuary.
Natalia Gorenok
All that remained of the once large ancient village was the vacated Sts. Peter and Paul Church standing in the middle of the field, and its cemetery, practically as forsaken as the church...
Peter Davydov, Maria Vasic
Kosovo, in Vladyka’s words, was lost only for those who have lost themselves—in time, space, and faith.
