Alexander Adomenas
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 40
When people hear that I am from Kazakhstan, many are surprised and ask, “Are there really Orthodox Christians there?”
Alexandra Nikiforova, Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl
Rating: 9,8|Votes: 21
Metropolitan Pavel (Lebed) of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl is known as a staunch defender of the Kiev Caves Lavra in modern history. He has served as its abbot for twenty-five years. Not only have the Lavra’s buildings risen from ruins in their former glory thanks to his labors and wisdom, spiritual life has been revived here as well.
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 26
For us, a monastery should represent the best of Christian life: love of God, love of family/brotherhood, love of friend and stranger, hospitality to all, joy, delight, and above all, life in abundance through Our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Rating: 8,7|Votes: 7
The church will serve in the Bulgarian language but be under the jurisdiction of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
Ivan Krasnobayev
Rating: 8,4|Votes: 30
Ivan Krasnobayev, a young architect from the city of Kazan, prepared a series of works dedicated to Kazan Churches that have been built around the world.
Archpriest Oleg Vrona
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 43
Nun Seraphima faced a grave, unsolvable problem: how to fulfill her filial duty without leaving the monastery. The only way out seems obvious for everyone—to leave the monastery to take care of her ailing, elderly mother.
Vasily Tsuper, Archpriest Vladimir Tyshchuk
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 10
Fr. Vladimir Tyshchuk has shared his memories of his father and told us about the specifics of priestly ministry far from one’s motherland, and the parish and parishioners of the cathedral in Vienna.
Metropolitan Sergius (Gensitsky)
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 23
Ternopil is one of the most difficult dioceses for Orthodox Christians who have not joined the schismatic “Kiev Patriarchate”. The region has also been dominated by Uniates. Therefore Metr. Sergius and his flock could well be called a diocese of confessors of the faith.
Victor Kasyanenko, Igumen Leonty (Kozlov)
Rating: 7,3|Votes: 9
If you go on pilgrimage with a spiritual purpose and not out of curiosity, it is a labor and you will certainly benefit from, whether it be Russia, Mt. Athos, or Greece.
Nun Evfimia (Aksamentova)
Rating: 9,6|Votes: 19
That day revealed, as it were, the true essence of monastic holiness. The holiness that doesn’t keep the people away by feigned rigor or a complexity that is hard to fathom.
Olga Rozhneva, Priest Dimitry Gavrilov
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 22
From this article you will learn what it is like growing up in a family with thirteen children who are “people of the old school”—what kind of protection all of us have, how to overcome fear and find a spiritual father, what is the power of a parent’s blessing, the mystery of Divine providence, and many other interesting and miraculous stories.
Fr. Joseph Farooq
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 23
In Pakistan and all over the world, Orthodox Christians are proud of their faith and the Holy Cross of Jesus is strengthening their faith and giving them courage to face the challenges of life with vim and vigor in all circumstances.
Olga Rozhneva
Rating: 10|Votes: 25
In those years, the now-departed elders Archimandrite John (Krestiankin) and Archimandrite Adrian (Kirsanov) were still laboring in the monastery. It didn’t work out for me, a child, to meet with them of course; I didn’t even know they existed, but the whole monastery atmosphere was filled with prayer and grace. Again, I said nothing to my parents, but the thought of going to a monastery tightly fused itself to my soul. To me it seems like my coming to God and entrance into Church life was a real miracle and the mercy of God towards me.
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: 17
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: 8,9|Votes: 42
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
“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
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: 9,5|Votes: 6
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: 9,8|Votes: 96
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.
