Nun Alexandra (Markova)
In the fifteen years since, he has gained recognition and love among Orthodox Russians, and St. Ephraim now lives in the hearts of many believers who turn to him for help, protection, and healing.
Constantine Zalalas
Mr. Constantine Zalalas has been a lay teacher of our holy Orthodox Faith for over 30 years. He has translated many Orthodox works from Greek for the English speaking world.
Alexandra Kalinovskaya
“Vladyka is having a very hard time right now. He is sick and infirm, yet they force him to do heavy labor. But you all know him: he never loses heart; he himself remains strong, and keeps us all going.”
"Pray, and the Lord will not forsake those who cry out to Him day and night for their salvation."
Hieromonk Seraphim (Panich)
This feast is the final and most significant milestone of Old Testament history—its culmination and, at the same time, the threshold and the gateway to the New Testament.
Schema-Igumen Seraphim (Baradel)
And so today, in the quiet light of Her feast, shrouded in the veil of Her humility, She silently reveals to us the Heavenly mystery of immutable, eternal joy. The highest bliss is in love—in sacrificial and crucificied love.
Sergei Kagirin
According to tradition, Sts. Peresvet and Oslyabya were exceptional warriors whose fame spread far beyond their home principalities. They were clearly battle-hardened, formidable fighters with innumerable victories to their names. Yet, something drove each of them individually to seek a different path.
Elena Detinina
St. Michael commanded the mountain river to stop, turned it in another direction, and then struck the cliff standing in the path of the raging waters. Millions of tons of water began cascading into the resulting fissure with a terrifying roar.
Rosamaria Mendes
The Bolsheviks made no secret of their crime: they handed over the pectoral cross taken from the slain hieromonk to the monastery abbot.
Mother Paraskeva treated all people with special understanding and respect—even those who didn’t love or understand her, or who had done her harm. She lived with a special sense of inner attention to her heart and soul, fearing to sin before God, whether in deed or thought.
Hieromonk Nilus (Parnas)
The Forerunner demonstrated his love for God by accepting this martyrdom of dishonor.
Maria Pukhova
And then something pricked my heart: it was St. Gabriel who reminded Mother about me! And I asked: “We need an icon of St. Gabriel for the church in the Kuban. If possible, please consecrate it on the relics of the venerable one: people are waiting!”
Priest Alexei Guglivaty
Blessed Afanasy Saiko was a faithful child of the Russian Orthodox Church during the twentieth-century persecutions.
Svetlana Rybakova
The Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God is the oldest and most significant sacred relic in the life of the Russian people.
On the first Sunday of September, the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the Synaxis of the Saints of Moscow.
After Fr. Vladimir’s death, his image began appearing to the chief prison administrator. Wherever the man went and whatever he did, the aged priest stood before his eyes.
Natalia Vashchina
Very often, those who opposed sectarianism in the Russian Empire stood up to defend the Mother Church against the encroachments of the so-called Living Church followers (Renovationists) after the collapse of the great country.
This is a very special video, a digest of events and talks from the 20th anniversary of Father Seraphim's repose, held at St Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina CA in 2002.
Priest Leonid Bartkov
Every year at the end of August, the Orthodox world is immersed in the experience of an event that at first glance seems paradoxical. We celebrate death.
Hieromonk Athanasius (Deryugin)
Her whole life was an example for all of us Christians; and Her Dormition is also an example for us, so that our passing into eternal life might be peaceful and calm, as if falling asleep.
