Rating: 9,9|Votes: 12
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: 19
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: 9,9|Votes: 19
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: 29
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: 24
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: 82
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.
Rating: 10|Votes: 5
A restoration project for the Vazelon Monastery, located in the Maçka district of the Black Sea province of Trabzon, is underway after the ancient site fell into ruins due to neglect, vandalism and treasure hunters’ raids.
Sister Margarete (Roeber)
Rating: 6,8|Votes: 6
In the pre-dawn darkness of mid-February, our car from Saint Elisabeth Convent slid over the snow through the gate of the Women’s Farmstead, and pulled up to the house in which Fr. Andrew would celebrate Divine Liturgy.
Sergei Geruk, Archimandrite Gideon (Kharon)
Rating: 10|Votes: 16
Our talk with Archimandrite Gideon took place at the period of the trials that befell the monastery in late January and February this year.
She learned about her own illness — the 2nd stage of cancer — five years ago. Right now, her cancer is progressing again. Having survived an extensive operation followed by chemotherapy, she knows better than most other people what illness is like and how to fight it.
Peter Davydov, Abbess Evphalia (Lebedeva)
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 25
Abbess Evphalia (Lebedeva), who labored for more than twenty years over the restoration of the Resurrection Monastery in Goritsy in the Vologda Province, shares her thoughts about why people become monastics, discusses the saving quality of the ability not to answer injustices with anger, the advantage of peacocks and the ignorance of Germans, and recalls the recent history of Russia—the Russia of martyrs.
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 6
After St. Nina’s repose, the Equal-to-the-Apostles King Mirian, having returned from Bodbe, desired to build the Samtavro church: “The king and all the people went and built the upper church out of stone and finished it in the fourth year.” The participation “of all the people,” the desire of the king, and the four years of building are a sign that the church was quite large.
Olga Orlova
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 14
On January 22, in his seventy-ninth year of life, after a serious illness, the abbot of the Entrance of the Theotokos Optina Pustyn Monastery, Archimandrite Benedict (Penkov) departed to the Lord. He was the creator and guardian of the monastic life there, and also a keen spiritual father. Here is what several archpastors and pastors who knew the newly-departed Archimandrite Benedict have to say about him.
Priest Dimitry Vidumkin
Rating: 10|Votes: 15
I should immediately clarify that I was a guest of Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of All Georgia. This is how it happened…
Roman Iliushenko
Rating: 10|Votes: 22
Diveyevo, the fourth and final portion of the Mother of God, revealed to me if only a small part of its mystical secret in the measure that I was ready to accept.
Abbess Athanasia (Silkina)
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 17
Nowadays monasteries and convents are as relevant as they were in ancient times, if not more. These places are filled with the Divine grace. They are essential for people, so that driven and tossed by all kinds of winds in the turbulent sea of life, they might have such islands where they will find Divine grace and support.
