Schema-Igumen Savva (Ostapenko)
In St. Basil were fulfilled the Savior’s words: He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit (Jn. 15:4).
Hierodeacon Gabriel (Rozhnov)
Thus, by His humanity, He observed the letter of the Law, but by His Divinity, having become incarnate for the salvation of the human race, He fulfilled the whole Law.
St. John (Maximovitch) of Shanghai and San Francisco
Not with outward force or boastful wisdom did He come to reign over the nations, but in the form of a servant the Savior came to take upon Himself the sin of Adam, to bear the burden of mankind, being accessible to all.
Oksana Golovko
Artists strive to speak of the feast through portrait, landscape, still life, book illustration…
Priest Tarasiy Borozenets
A pure heart is one and whole. It overcomes all the contradictions between the soul, the spirit and the body, between the mind, the will and the emotions.
Hieromonk Pavel (Shcherbachev)
There is a truth that reaches us from heaven, from the righteous Judge. A truth that at times corrects, at times rewards, in which much remains incomprehensible to us, because of the loftiness of the judgments contained within it.
Irina Dmitrieva
According to tradition, this is the only early church in Palestine that was not destroyed during the Persian invasion because of an image of the Magi on the wall of the basilica.
To our infant Savior, the Creator and Sustainer of all, the true Love of our hearts, our deepest Desire, the Fulfillment of our being: to him be all love and adoration, together with his Father and his All-holy Spirit, throughout the ages of this world and unto endless eternity.
Vasily Rozanov
These crazy days will pass, everyone will come to their senses and realize that there is no upbringing without the Law of God, there is no grace-filled growth of children without prayer, without a candle placed in the church...
May each of us find his miraculous star, which leads to the Cave of Bethlehem, where the Divine Mystery of our salvation had its bright beginning, where the Pre-Eternal God, the Creator of man, appeared in the image of man.
I warmly greet you all with love on the great holidays of the Nativity of Christ, Theophany, and the New Year, sincerely wishing you inner peace, joy, and tranquility, renewal of all your strength, and God's help!
May the light of the Savior’s Nativity pierce the darkness of every doubt and every trial! May the Christ who is born establish in us “life in abundance,” guiding us along the path to eternal salvation!
St. John of Riga
The rebellions of evil are powerless. Rejoice!
Nativity Message by His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', to the Archpastors, Pastors, Deacons, Monks and Nuns and All the Faithful Children of the Russian Orthodox Church
Archpriest Alexander Shargunov
The fullness of time was fulfilled when God sent His Only-Begotten Son into the world.
St. Cleopa (Ilie)
Have we prepared ourselves to give shelter to Christ in our hearts?
Archpriest Andrei Tkachev
People for some reason decide to live beyond their means. Then they find themselves unable to return what was taken. Further options are diverse: debtor’s prison, inventory of property, flight, suicide, drinking from despair, and so on.
Archpriest Alexander Berezovsky
We rejoice in having witnessed the coming of the promised Messiah into the world.
May we all enter the New Year with firm faith that God’s truth will prevail, and that even the deepest wounds can be healed—if only we desire this and pray for it.
Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)
We must pray to Hieromartyr Hilarion that the Lord, through his prayers, first of all grant us this courage—the courage to defend the freedom of the Church, to defend the canons, that the Lord grant us the wisdom to understand everything, not to be deceived by our spiritual or hierarchical titles and knowledge, and not to become traitors.
