Sergei Mudrov
Despite the fact that Orthodox Christianity is not the predominant denomination in Hungary, its people’s interest in it is noticeable.
The church has a multinational choir consisting of singers from ten different ethnic groups. There are many people at our services: 300–400 come to Communion on Sundays.
Olga Sokirkina
After the Great Victory, many soldiers and officers devoted their lives to God, becoming priests and monks. God’s ways are mysterious. God alone knows His plans for the world and for each one of us.
Irina Fedorkova
How little we appreciate our patron saints, how little we know about them, how little we pray to them, talk about them, or love them! But even when we forget them, they don’t forget us.
Dmitry Kiryukhin
The Church of Great Martyr George, created in honor of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War (World War II), is well known to any visitor to Moscow’s Victory Park on Worship Hill.
Anton Pospelov
“When we brought the remains out of the ground, the entire cemetery was filled with fragrance,” said Bishop Nichifor of Botoșani.
Maria Vasic
Recently, Kosovo Serbs were stunned—this time from joy. The tiny town of Orahovac in southern Kosovo and Metohija was inundated with hundreds of pilgrims who arrived there in a single day.
For us spiritual children, for the clergy and monastics who were touched by his love for God, his spiritual direction, his life of prayer, generous hospitality and friendship, he was known affectionately as Fr. Seraphim. Archimandrite Seraphim, Abbot of Holy Cross Monastery, formerly.
Priest Vyacheslav Inyushkin
The Chernobyl disaster is a test sent by the Lord to warn people against even more terrible mistakes.
Irina Dmitrieva
The Gospel events were unfolding before our very eyes: Judas’ betrayal, the Savior’s prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, and the arrest of Christ by the Jews.
I really hope that despite all the global cataclysms, the community will remain in its current composition, with people of different nationalities—Russians, Ukrainians, Serbs, Greeks and Romanians.
Ariadna Nefedkina
We see that the history of Orthodoxy in Dagestan shows how different cultures could coexist on the same territory, leaving their mark on time, and continue to coexist to this day.
“It’s so glorious how the God shines within this one particular area,” said the Rev. John Sorochka, now rector emeritus.
Anatoly Kholodiuk
St. Benedict was widely revered even during his lifetime for his piety, ascetic life, selflessness, compassion, and the miracles worked through his prayers. The Lord revealed much to him.
Hieromonk Vyacheslav (Shaporov)
Our task is not only to sober people up, but also to convert them to God and help them integrate into Church life.
In Russia, there has long been a tradition of shaping and baking lark-shaped pastries on the Feast of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste.Why skylarks?
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.
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.
