Hieromonk Pafnuty (Fokin)
Love for prayer and services was characteristic of Fr. Damaskin. The brethren were surprised at how he was always at church, even though he was so weak that he was about to fall apart.
How can the human heart learn turn away from earthly lusts and begin instead to truly love our Lord Jesus Christ?
Archimandrite Ioanichie (Balan)
Few monks and confessors are able to successfully combine the labors of a hermit with ministry as a spiritual father, solitude with an abundance of spiritual children, love for God with love for neighbor, hidden tears with pain of heart for disciples.
Holy Hieromartyr Anatoly, Metropolitan of Odessa
Chrysostom’s sermons reveal such an amazing knowledge of the human soul, of all the secret bends of the human heart, that they leave the listener or reader speechless, conquered, and captivated.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and Melitopol
No matter how she hid herself, God glorified her all the more. The venerable one had left, you could say, for the edge of the earth in order to hide herself from human glory, but there a monastery formed around her.
For centuries people have turned to the Archangel Michael and the Heavenly Host for help—and the Heavenly Powers have never forsaken those who needed help.
Irina Rubtsova
With the blessing of God, Archangel Michael approaches, clothed in the robes of goodness and mercy, and proclaims to everyone that God has once again had mercy on the world.
Anna Danilova
He wasn’t the kind of person for whom Christianity is regulated in time and space. He was entirely occupied with preaching Christ, salvation, life after death.
Hieromonk Silouan (Mezhinsky)
Wisdom, love, and complete trust in the merciful Lord permeated St. Varlaam’s entire life.
Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
Now I am sixty-four, and in difficult moments that happen to everybody these images, these memories from the Holy Mountain are a good inheritance for me, a refuge where I enter and gain strength, courage, consolation and support from God to continue my struggle.
He told me, “You are related to us.” I said to him, “Geronda, are you from Cyprus?” He replied, “You’re slow-witted.”
Nun Maria (Balan)
When he preached in the village church, everyone wept.
Maria Tobolova
As an alumna of Leushino Monastery, Anna wrote to her relatives that she accepts her service to the Anointed of God as an obedience and will never leave her position of her own free will.
Bogdan Lupescu
And there are even more nuns than monks. They are martyrs! Women live their lives richly adorned with virtues.
The tradition of eremitic life in Romania has never been interrupted: it is still alive, and monks continue to struggle in gorges and precipices.
Alexander Uzhankov
So that I wouldn’t be late, I came to the Kiev train station with time to spare. I looked at the timetable, but the Kharkov train was not on it. I went out to the platform, but I didn’t see a train standing. A vague anguish stole upon me—did I mixed something up?
Elena Balashova
Holy Confessor Matrona of Diveyevo spent seventeen years altogether in prison camps.
Services for the feast were led by His Eminence Archbishop Daniel of Chicago and the Midwest and ended the Cathedral’s month long celebration honoring the saint.
The film contains almost no modern footage or contemporary musical accompaniment recorded in our time. In the “Nizhny Novgorod” segment, you will hear the voice of Emperor Nicholas II.
Professor Larisa Marsheva, Anton Osipov
The Troparion begins with a lofty appeal of the Holy Hierarch Hermogenes that later came to be used in subsequent prayers to the Most Holy Mother of God. “Intercessor” means protectress, or patroness.
