Dinara Gracheva, Dimitry Shvidkovsky
Rating: 10|Votes: 5
We spoke with the academic Dimitry Shvidkovsky on returning to the origins of our spiritual culture, and what constitutes the contemporary language of church architecture.
Natalia Nesterenko
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 14
This young convent became a real spiritual center not only in Ossetia but in the whole of the Caucasus. It is no coincidence that a rehabilitation center for children-victims of the 2004 Beslan terrorist attack and refugees from South Ossetia was founded here.
Seraphim Hanisch
Rating: 8,7|Votes: 38
This temple serves as an example, and is actually characteristic of the energy and effort put into all the new temples in the city and around Russia.
Bishop Leonid (Tolmachev) of Mozhaisk
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 17
“There are times when I forget that I’m the abbot. I remember when I was here just as a monk. Not long ago, people were waiting for me in the office; I went there and I thought, “Why is the abbot calling me? Then a little time passed and I thought, ‘And now I’m the abbot here myself!’”
Matfey Shaheen
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 23
She, the door from which salvation entered the world, herself marvelously passed through the door of eternal life; “The door passes through the doorway”, as the Lamentation Service of the Dormition teaches us. In celebration of this great feast, let us virtually pass through the doors of some of the most beautiful Cathedrals, Monasteries, and Holy sites in the Rus’ Lands, dedicated to Her Dormition.
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
The National Cathedral’s project dates back to 1884, when Romania’s first King Carol I promulgated the Law of the Cathedral Church, which has never been abrogated ever since.
Nun Theophania
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 90
The convent’s distinctive feature is that its nuns are not only from Greece, but also natives of other countries—Austria, Australia, the UK, Armenia, Germany, Cyprus, Lebanon, Russia, the USA, Estonia, and Japan; and they hold some parts of the services in their native languages.
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 42
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: 15
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: 19
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.
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: 44
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: 47
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: 9,3|Votes: 26
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: 30
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!
