Rating: 9,6|Votes: 20
Michael and Ekaterina have been engaged in aerial photography for several years already. With the help of a camera mounted on board a radio-controlled aircraft, they capture the face of the Earth from a bird’s eye view. The photographers have provided this present collection of photographs from the Russian North.
Olga Rozhneva, Abbess Vitalia (Kochetova)
Rating: 10|Votes: 11
Everybody, especially the driver Pavel, was overwhelmed by this unusual and edifying occurrence. Pavel kept asking very loudly:“What should I do?! How should I pray to St. Thecla?!”
Rating: 10|Votes: 18
Abbess Vitalia (Kochetova) has shared wonderful stories with me which can be compared with those from the Lives of Monastic Fathers of old times. I believe all the readers remember from the Lives of the Fathers how one monk was ordered to plant a dry stick in the sand and water it as obedience, which he did until it blossomed.
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
During work along the right bank of the Tiber this summer, the archaeological group Cooperativa Archeologia uncovered what was first thought to be a villa, but later considered to be a church.
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 11
Mother Christophora and the Sisterhood of the Monastery of the Transfiguration, Ellwood City, PA, welcomed hundreds of hierarchs, clergy and faithful from across the United States and Canada to their annual pilgrimage on August 4-6, 2018.
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 43
On this tiny island live women who have dedicated their lives to God and seek to have a living communion with Him apart from distractions.
Feodor Nemets
Rating: 10|Votes: 46
Fr. Macarius (Ruegemer) and Fr. David (Mahand) are monks from the Hermitage of the Holy Cross in West Virginia. In this interview, we spoke with them about life in their monastery, the formation of novices, and the spiritual advice, and above all, spiritual joy that they receive from their abbot, Archimandrite Seraphim.
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 13
The community had a reader, a choir director, and an icon-painter. It was the largest Orthodox parish of the time in Germany.
Olga Rozhneva, Nun Nectaria
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 25
Did I think about dangers? To my mind, when you resolve to do something for the good of the Church you don’t think about dangers.
Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)
Rating: 8,4|Votes: 29
In rocky Herzegovina, not far from the city of Trebinje, there sits the Monastery of Sts. Peter and Paul. Church Tradition preserves testimony that the apostles Paul and Titus passed through the area and preached on their way to Dalmatia.
Andrew Gould
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 33
It has been my particular honor to create a magnificent shrine and reliquary for the Russian Royal Martyrs. The shrine was commissioned by an American convert to Orthodoxy as a gift to the Hermitage of the Holy Cross, a Russian Orthodox monastery in West Virginia, USA.
Alexander Khrulev
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 10
The author recalled the famine of 1839-1841, when no peasants from the neighboring village that belonged to another landowner went hungry. “Almost all the local lords of manors preferred to suffer privations and felt it their duty to provide for their own peasants."
Peter Davydov, Goran Velickovic
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 18
If you look at the map, you see that Lake Kubenskoye is rather small, but it turns out that it is seventy kilometers long! And just imagine: there is a tiny islet in the middle of the lake, and there is a monastery on the islet, and the Divine Liturgy is being celebrated in it! Peace and quiet, light, waves, a “thoughtful” cat is roaming about, campfire, while you are praying!
Rating: 7,8|Votes: 5
The National Cathedral, to be dedicated to the Ascension of Christ and St. Andrew, is popularly known as the People’s Salvation Cathedral. It will be the patriarchal cathedral for the Romanian Orthodox Church and the tallest Orthodox Church in the world (433 ft. high).
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 17
Diveyevo is known as one of the "portions of the Mother of God". This video, used with permission from its author Monk Abel (Gkiouzelis) of Attica, Greece, shows this wondrous monastery from the "angel's eye" view.
Archimandrite Avraamy (Kuyava), Valentina Serikova
Rating: 10|Votes: 22
Fr. Avraamy saw the generation of the Kiev Caves elders who had been called to monastic life before the Revolution and who preserved the living tradition of spiritual continuity from ancient times. He absorbed their spirit, their zeal for God, their strength of faith, simplicity and Christian love.
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 30
His Eminence Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Pskov and Porkhov, only recently appointed to his new diocese, several weeks ago invited a group of seminarians from the Sretensky Seminary attached to Sretensky Monastery in Moscow to the Pskov lands.
Sergei Mudrov
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 10
That is why at this time the most important thing for the Orthodox minority on Malta is to preserve their faith and identity, remaining different in a way that is pleasing to God, despite the Maltese laws and influence of the Catholic majority.
Archpriest Daniel Lugovoy, Vasily Tsuper
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 13
It is interesting that Orthodox Christians can be found everywhere. It often amazes me that Divine providence sometimes brings people to faraway places.
Jesse Dominick, Monk Sophronios (Copan)
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 45
Monk Sophronios (Copan) is an American monk living out his monastic calling in a small monastery in Eastern Kosovo, dedicated to the Holy Archangels Gabriel and Michael. Orthochristian.com recently had the opportunity to interview him about his experiences as an American and a monastic in Kosovo while he was in America giving talks about his monastery and the contemporary situation of Orthodox Christians in Muslim-majority Kosovo.
