Oksana Golovko
Regardless of whether it is an urban or pastoral landscape, the churches add loftiness to the artistic space, making it meaningful and beautiful.
Matthew Hartley
A Christian presence of any sort is greatly in the minority throughout the Arabian Peninsula.
The beginning of a Christian presence on the Arabian Peninsula dates to Apostolic times.
Sergei Alekseyev
In the proper sense of the word, state power is already a matter of the 10th century, and the key role here was played by the Christianization of Rus at the end of the 10th century.
Maria Tobolova
“I explain the severity of the disasters by retribution... for our attitude to the religious question and especially for the attitude of the Russian clergy towards their religious and social mission... Of course, I will never believe in the triumph of atheism among us Russians... Russian religious thought will find its way to revival.”
Fr. Photius was the first to send messages to the Tsar denouncing the wrong religious policies that Alexander I had pursued almost throughout his reign, and the Tsar heeded the archimandrite’s words.
Monk Photius fearlessly set about struggling against Freemasonry, whose representatives were the most influential figures of the Empire.
The house survived storms, war and neglect before it was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1970.
Athanasios Zoitakis
The saint was not only an outstanding Orthodox enlightener; he is truly considered a great prophet of latter times. St. Cosmas of Aitolia left a great number of stunningly exact prophecies about the future of mankind (about scientific inventions, wars, and ecological catastrophes). Many of his predictions have already come to pass, while others are still awaiting their fulfillment.
Samuel Noble
The image of the churches harmoniously fitting together as the parts of the body whose sole head is Christ is a key image for Peter’s ecclesiology.
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Simon Scionka
When they became Orthodox it was real for them. It was not forced, it made sense to them. As a people, they pass it down from generation to generation and continue to do so now.
What about a church like Antioch, which is older than Constantinople itself? Why do they receive chrism from the EP? When did this start, and is there any good reason today why Antioch shouldn’t resume consecrating chrism for itself?
Archpriest Maxim Nikolsky
He had knowledge, wisdom, and love. He spoke directly, like a close friend and a father.
Fr. Stephen Freeman
In the great images of the Holy Week services, the horror of man’s sin and the suffering of the Creator leading to the great triumph of the resurrection, I suddenly discovered that eternal, indestructible beginning, which was also in that temporarily quiet spring, hiding in itself the seed of a total renewal of all that lives.
On Monday of Holy Week the Church commemorates the holy Patriarch Joseph of Egypt. His story is one of the most familiar and beloved in the entire Old Testament.
Irina Dmitrieva
Jericho has a glorious history. We read in the Old Testament that it was the first city captured by the Israelites led by Joshua on entering the Promised Land.
Elena Butarova
It would seem that a Greek could hardly understand the difficulties of a foreign country such as Russia. But great are the works of the Lord; not only did Metropolitan Theognost understand all the subtleties of Russia’s state of affairs, he sincerely accepted this country as his own, devoting the rest of his life to his new homeland.
Professor Darina Grigorova
The European resolution, through the image of its enemy—Russia in this case—is trying to introduce censorship on the freedom of historical perspective.
From the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th, when clergy and hierarchs of the Russian Church were sent to the North American Mission they were provided with Holy Chrism from Russia sufficient for pastoral needs.
