Mother Maria (Wall)
When you feel vulnerable, so unprotected and exposed and surrounded by evil, help can only come from God.
Maria Vasic
We are convinced by our own example that you “don’t walk over the doorstep without asking His blessing”—and, when your doorstep is in Kosovo, you simply can’t do anything without God.
Fr. Alexander Paramonov
Priest Alexander Paramonov resides and serves in an Australian town called Gold Coast. He answered our questions regarding his life and, together with his wife, matushka Leah, he told us what life is like for Christians in that remote corner of the world.
Priest Francisco Salvador
An amazing thing—dozens of young people were ready to become martyrs and die for Christ.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
True lived Orthodoxy is rooted in the family of the Church—a family built upon apostolic foundations.
Jozef Van den Berg converted to Orthodox Christianity a year later, after paying visits to Elder Sophrony in Essex, Elder Porphyrios in Athens and Elder Paisos in Mount Athos.
Southerners have a long-held sacramental vision of life and Orthodox Christianity can bring about the fulfillment of this vision with sacramental religion.
Fr. Joseph Farooq
In general, people in Pakistan respect Holy Orthodoxy, they love our traditions and appreciate our veneration of the holy icons and how we are serving the Divine Liturgy. All these things touch their hearts
Archpriest Gennady Shkil
So the Royal Family gave us an example, that we must always be with the Lord—no matter what may happen, no matter what circumstances we may find ourselves in. And we must always be ready to suffer not only for Christ’s sake, but also for the sake of our neighbor.
Fr. Peter Heers, Fr. John Whiteford
A discussion about the newly released book from Uncut Mountain Press, On the Reception of the Heterodox into the Orthodox Church: Patristic Consensus and Criteria with Fr. John Whiteford, rector of St. Jonah Orthodox Church (ROCOR) in Spring, TX, outside of Houston.
Archpriest John Whiteford
The book makes a compelling case for why the reception of converts by baptism should be the norm, especially in our time, and given that few non-Orthodox Christians baptize by a triple immersion.
Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye and Melitopol
No matter what lofty gifts a person may have been worthy of, no matter what heights of theology he has reached, no matter what ascetical labors he has performed, if all of this has not brought him to love, then all his labors were in vain.
Peter Davydov, Archpriest Mikhail Kharchuk
The presence of children in the church gives me special joy. Thank God, we managed to arrange a good Sunday school, and children attend it willingly. We try to avoid just cramming the catechism at classes, but we have a lively dialogue about the life of Christ, about the commandments, and what not.
And the pagans are still around (at least here in Canada) and they are still noisily raging. They are not dead or even asleep. They are wide awake (and ‘woke’). They don’t worship Zeus or Apollo anymore. The idols currently ascendent here in the West have different names.
Alexander Dmitriev
No one knows exactly what love is. And love is cultivated in everyone. You begin to take part in the life of your soulmate, you begin to understand him or her.
The army of Christ is made up of the lame, the elderly, and the infirm. Everyone kept on walking with prayer, toughing it out despite the pain of blistered feet at every step.
Fr. Anthony Rusakevich
Since there are no ready-made solutions to this fundamental spiritual problem, at least some preventive measures can be taken that will protect us against a possible crisis of faith, “laymen burnout”. These rules are quite simple. Let’s call them “life hacks for tired laymen”.
"I come to you from Damascus, a city that, centuries ago, inherited the glory of Antioch. I come with Paschal joy in my heart, a joy that overcomes all sorrow and pain."
Hieromonk Anthony (Zhukov)
To study to become a long-distance navigator, to become a monk in one of the most inclement corners of Russia, then go on a mission to Latin America...
Fr. Veronis’s legacy is primarily one of love, faith and service.
