Rating: 10|Votes: 23
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: 10|Votes: 7
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: 37
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.
Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)
Banja Monastery in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, one of the oldest holy shrines of the Serbian land, stands close to the town of Priboj in the very heart of Serbia.
Olga Rozhneva
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 24
This wonderful monastery, founded by Elder Ephraim of Arizona, along with eighteen other monasteries in America, is quite far from the nearest city of Dunlap, among wild nature.
Eric Peterson
Rating: 7,3|Votes: 3
A chorus of music filled the Sunday morning air. Candles brightly burned as Father Eugene Wozniak led his congregation in prayer. On the back wall, a new display towered tall behind the altar. Church members say they are impressed.
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 12
The famed Valaam Monastery opened its pilgrimage season with a procession in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the translation of whose relics to Bari, Italy was celebrated by the holy Orthodox Church yesterday. The brothherhood and the monastery's many pilgrims joined in the holy march around the island, carrying icon banners and a reliquary containing a piece of the relics of St. Nicholas.
Rating: 9,4|Votes: 17
WORSHIPPERS are celebrating what they have called a miracle from God after a fire in a Serbian Church left only the faces of the saints untouched.
Olga Rozhneva, Abbess Markella (Galati)
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 66
Visiting the convents that were founded by Geronda Ephraim, a spiritual child of the great Elder Joseph the Hesychast from Mt. Athos, is a unique opportunity for women to feel both the spirit of this holy mountain and the holy elder’s prayers through the prayers of his spiritual children.
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 27
On May 20, 2018 Metropolitan Tikhon of Pskov and Porkhov served Divine Liturgy in Sretensky Monastery before his departure to the Pskov metropolitanate.
Nun Cornelia (Rees)
Rating: 10|Votes: 30
His care covered every member of the monastery conglomerate—all the patrons, hired workers, and parishioners. He was accessible to all, and no one was too low on the totem pole for his fatherly attention.
Maxim Vasyunov, Igumen Michael (Semenov)
Rating: 10|Votes: 21
Igumen Michael (Semenov), deputy abbot of Klykovo Monastery, speaks on Matushka’s role in the appearance of the monastery, on the difficulties and victories of the brethren, on the continuity of love, and much else in this candid conversation.
Fr. John Chakos
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 5
Thus the humble village of Los Angeles, “among the least” in the land of the Mayans, has become the forerunner in our collaboration with those who would embrace Christ through the “One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic faith.”
Olga Rozhneva, Nun Sophia (Zaburdaeva)
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 30
When I went to the monastery, I thought I was ready for monastic life: sewing, knitting, cooking… Only years later did I realize that I don’t know how to do anything and I don’t know anything. Socrates said: “I know that I know nothing.” Me too…
Archpriest Vladislav Tsypin
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 25
The period between the fifth and the eighth centuries was called “the age of saints” in Wales.
Huda Baroud
Rating: 9|Votes: 8
The Palestinian government and international organizations started a major excavation to restore St. Hilarion Monastery, locally known as Tell Umm Amer, in the central Gaza Strip, Palestine’s oldest and largest Christian monument.
As a growing mission that continues to benefit from the Orthodox Church in America’s Planting Grant Program, Saint Nektarios Mission strives to observe a full liturgical schedule.
Rating: 8|Votes: 4
A person who does not go to church cannot learn to be a precentor. It seems to me that church music is discovered little by little as long as your heart becomes pure and meek…
Rating: 9|Votes: 86
The Russian multimedia project “Russian Roads” www.rusroads.com was created to provide a picture of the Russian land—its nature, culture, and history; its past and its present.
