On the feast day of St Polycarp, the first Saturday in the Great Fast, pilgrims from the Liverpool Orthodox Student Society undertook a pilgrimage to the Holy Island of Lindesfarne—one of the most important sites in the history of Orthodoxy in the British Isles in the first millennium.
Sergei Mudrov
In 2017, the last nuns left the monastery—they were no longer able to maintain the huge building. But the will of God, as it turned out, was for this building to serve another purpose: Once the Catholics left, the building welcomed its new residents, this time—the Orthodox.
Svyatoslav Mozhey
My ten-year-old daughter’s friends came to our place and played in the room where Fr. Gabriel’s icon stood. Suddenly they ran out frightened: “Look, an icon is winking at us!”
Since the mid-nineteenth century, there has been a representation of the Antiochian Patriarchate in Russia’s capital, and indeed, despite the great distance between Russia and Syria, Russian history has been linked with Antioch at critical times.
Hieromonk Laurus (Arkhipov)
It wasn’t without God’s providence that I ended up here. Thus, from Sretensky Monastery in the center of Moscow, I wound up in the Northern Thebaid, which I’m very glad about. At the same time, there are plenty of opportunities for humility.
Dmitry Kiryukhin
St. Xenia, beloved not only in Russia but also around the Orthodox world, was the fool-for-Christ who wandered the relatively newly-built capital of the Russian Empire.
In the 1950s and 1960s, to make way for road construction, the altar section was blown up, and the refectory and upper tiers of the bell tower were dismantled for bricks.
The centennial celebration will take place at the historic Holy Trinity Cathedral, Chicago, IL, the first Orthodox church in Chicago.
The church, as is customary in this area, is open all day; anyone can enter, light a candle, and pray.
Sergei Seryubin
He saw my CDs, slowed down and, putting one foot on the ground, started scrutinizing the covers…All of a sudden he almost jumped: “Oh, are you the author?” He left his bike and rushed to hug me.
Piotr Yurchuk, Slawomir Nazaruk
The visit of St. John, the Wonderworker of Shanghai and San Francisco, in his holy relics was a great spiritual boost for our Orthodox communities in Poland.
Sednaya’s historic monastery lights up with a towering tree, bringing joy to a city scarred by more than a decade of war.
Siberia amazes everyone who visits, leaves a lasting impression, and makes one yearn for it.
There is a certain joy and peace that comes to any of us when we take care of our brothers and sisters in need of our help.
Unidentified gunmen attacked a Greek Orthodox church in Hama, Syria, on Wednesday, December 18, firing shots at its walls and attempting to remove the cross, according to local reports.
Igumen Anthony (Korolev)
When a new wave of persecutions broke out in the 1960s, the authorities decided to close down one of the churches in the area, and their choice fell on Malye Yasyrki. But the sisters and the parishioners stood up for the church.
n the Soviet era the church in Malye Yasyrki was a spiritual center where people came for prayer and spiritual guidance not only from all over the Voronezh region, but also from across the USSR.
Hieromonk Nektary (Sokolov)
With the surgery that skillfully surpasses anything known to the mind of man, the Lord gradually removes from us the tumors of abomination and the metastases of filth, heals the glaucoma of ignorance and impassable stupidity, thus making us who we can and should become—citizens of the Heavenly City.
Archimandrite Seraphim reflects on the significance of our new church building and tells the story of his personal journey into monastic life at Holy Cross Monastery.
The name of Panselinos has been associated with the greatest Byzantine art, and his frescoed hagiographies have been considered as important as those of Giotto and Raphael.
