Natalia Prokofieva
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
"So, celebrating the Divine Liturgy at the Psychoneurological Home and taking care of the handicapped children fills your heart with an abundant grace of God that can otherwise only be acquired through pilgrimages to holy places, or the conversations with holy elders.”
Nazar Golovko
Rating: 8,2|Votes: 26
The Phanar will have on their side everything that earthly power can give. Only one question remains: Will God be on their side?
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 62
The Statement was adopted at an extraordinary session of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on 14 September 2018 (Minutes No. 69).
Alexander Shchipkov
Rating: 8,3|Votes: 40
The 7th of September will go down in history as a lamentable date. On this day, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew proclaimed and signaled a schism in Universal Orthodoxy, along the liberal and conservative lines. And he is officially headed in a liberal direction.
Archpriest Andrei Novikov
Rating: 8,7|Votes: 36
This article was put forth to analyze the speech of the Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew, at the Synaxis (Council) of the Archbishops of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which was held in Istanbul on September 1-4, 2018.
Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev)
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 49
We have made this statement today in the hope that they will reconsider their decision, that no exarchs will go to Kiev. However, in the event that the decision is not reconsidered, we will be forced to think of retaliatory measures. At the moment, such measures are being discussed by our Holy Synod.
Irina Akhundova
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 5
How can you find God if you can’t see and hear anything? True, even sighted people never saw God and hearing people never heard Him. Yet all of them see the beauty of His creation and hear its sounds, and it seems that it is easier for them to believe that all of this was created by God…
Nun Cornelia (Rees)
Rating: 8,3|Votes: 75
Will Constantinople go ahead and fulfil President Petro Poroshenko’s request that an autocephalous Church be granted in the Ukraine, making that country separate from Russia not only in body but also in soul?
Fr. Ted Bobosh
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 18
The reading causes consternation for some because it seems to reflect an antiquated worldview that doesn’t coincide with our ideas of gender equality. Additionally, by using the language of being subject one to another it raises concerns about abuse.
Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose)
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 43
Of course, you read about this and you say the man must be crazy. But if you look deeply, you see that this is coming from a deep desire to have some kind of happiness on earth.
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 37
Christ tells the Pharisees and Sadducees who came to Him, “Ye can discern the face of the sky,” that is, tell what the weather will be; “but can ye not discern the signs of the times?” In other words, He’s telling them that this has nothing to do with science, or with knowing our place in the world, or anything of the sort.
Sergei Komarov
Rating: 10|Votes: 15
The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground, and should sleep by night and rise by day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how (Mark 4:26–27).
Rating: 9|Votes: 44
During his five day visit, Jackson spent most of his time at the Vatopedi Monastery in the Monks Republic Mount Athos to honour the Dormition of the Virgin Mary but also visited the Xenophontos and Simonopetra Monasteries.
Peter Davydov
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 24
Youth was considered to be the main drawback of the new priest. “It would have been better to wait for a couple of years than to ordain him now!” the parishioners said. “He should grow up, mature and become more serious! He is still too young!
Rating: 3,5|Votes: 4
On Saturday, the Dormition Of The Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church of the Hamptons donated $100,000 to the Southampton Town Police Department to benefit the town’s Opioid Addiction and Recovery Committee.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
Rating: 8,4|Votes: 67
All of the women I know personally who veil themselves in church do not intend thereby to make a statement about women like Kelaidis’ grandmother, one way or the other. They are grateful, I suspect, to have the choice about whether or not to veil themselves, and they make their choice.
Tatiana Veselkina, John Sokoloff
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 21
He was born and has lived in Los Angeles. His music is known in 100 countries all over the world. His compositions resound even in the skies of Russia where this American composer of Russian descent has never been.
Sergei Geruk, Archbishop Theodosy (Snigiryov) of Boyarka
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 18
The 1030th anniversary celebration of the Baptism of Rus’ revealed new tendencies in the church life of Ukraine, made manifest in the hidden attitudes of society towards the church. What were the spiritual results of this anniversary? Has the danger of the non-canonical legalization of the schism ceased? What is the spiritual status of the Ukrainian flock? When will peace finally come to Ukraine?
Sergei Kuznetsov
Rating: 8,3|Votes: 11
The History of the Russian Church, as well as that of the Kievan Metropolis, separated between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, can be characterized mainly in the light of: a) The weakness at the center of the Patriarchate of Constantinople; and b) The strong influence of Catholicism on the Ukrainian lands controlled by Poland.
