Alexandra Kalinovskaya
Since time immemorial, the teachings of Abba Dorotheos have been an ABC on spiritual life for monastics and pious laypeople alike.
Elena Detinina
In the history of Orthodoxy, there have been many cases when children became holy martyrs for Christ and the Orthodox faith, suffering severe torments.
Bishop Veniamin (Milov)
The saints of Russia shine like bright stars in the Church’s firmament. They shine upon us with the light of their spiritual feats, their moods, their holy words and deeds, inspiring us to imitate them.
Rev. Dr. Oliver Subotic
The triad of faith–prayer–virtue was the hallmark of Patriarch Ilia, accompanying him throughout his patriarchal ministry.
We always ask the saint to remain prayerfully in our church and help us comfort the sick.
Natalia Vashchina
As always, the testimony given during the interrogation was twisted around and presented in an absolutely different light. It sounded as if it was not the Bolsheviks who had robbed the Valaam Monastery, but the monks, who “conducted anti-Soviet activities in an illegal apartment monastery and spread various provocative rumors.”
Fr. James Guirguis
The beauty of our faith is that God gives each one of us exactly what we need to grow and become saintly.
Hieromonk Nikon
Saints are people who lived and still live close to us, but unlike many of us, they are guided neither by the spirit of the modern world, nor by changing public opinion, nor by popular views or customs, but solely by the Spirit of Christ, the Spirit of the Gospel, and the Word of God.
I believed in God in my own way, but I didn’t understand why I should be baptized. “Well, I’ll get baptized and have to follow all the rules; but why should I do that?” I thought then. Nevertheless, I often prayed in front of a small icon of Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg—the only saint whose Life I knew and whose help I had clearly felt.
Zhanna Kurbatova
The intercession of the Most Pure Virgin and the saints is the central theme of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God with saints in the borders.
Hieromonk Athanasius (Deryugin)
Through the Holy Eucharist, through Communion, we affirm our unity with Christ, we affirm that we, the Church, are the Body of Christ.
Hieromonk Seraphim (Panich)
If you want to understand what the love of God is, then you cannot do without the Trinity. And the mystery of the Holy Trinity is comprehended—only partially—in the experience of spiritual life with ascetic labors.
St. Cleopa (Ilie)
He who fears God is above all the sages of this age. Blessed and thrice blessed is he who prepares for the heavenly journey.
The disciples did not know their Master, they did not know Christ—the Savior of the world Who performed so many miracles. Who revealed to them the mystery of God’s coming to earth and the incarnation of God the Word? The Holy Spirit.
Strong was the blessed one’s love for the Lord, and for this the Lord glorified him with His grace.
Archimandrite Cleopa (Ilie)
When the Heavenly powers saw the Savior removing the gates on high, all the angels blew their trumpets, everyone started singing, and in a chorus of great rejoicing and great singing, Christ ascended and abolished—did not open, but abolished—the gates of Heaven.
Have you heard what Jesus Christ came down for? For the sake of love. Have you heard what He ascended for? To lift us up, the children of man, not in one day, not in two, not in a year, not in a hundred years, not in a thousand or ten thousand years, but all the days of old—that is, as long as the world stands.
Sergei Vityazev
Blessed Simon made many prophecies: he foresaw fires, foretold deaths and other events.
St. Nikolai (Velimirovic)
St. Nicholas is the people’s saint, the perfect image of those who, hearing the word of God, hastened to fulfill it and by their example taught others to do the same.
Elena Belova
For over nine centuries now, it has been home to a priceless treasure of the Orthodox world—the relics of the illustrious saint and wonderworker—St. Nicholas of Myra.
