At eight o’clock in the morning, in the Tomb of Makedonitissa, in the presence of President Anastasiades, there was a memorial ceremony and a wreath was deposited for the fallen officers and soldiers during the Turkish invasion.
Archpriest Rostislav Yarema
In this article, Fr. Rostislav talks about the history of violent church seizures, and secretive Vatican collusion in Ukraine after the breakup of the USSR and the creation of an independent Ukrainian state.
Archpriest Vladislav Tsypin
No sin is left without retribution. Let’s look at the end of the lives of the direct political assassins of the Royal Passion-Bearers.
Xenia Bychkova
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
My great-uncle, Nicholas Nikolaevich Johnson, the secretary of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, was executed with him on the night of June 13, 1918, in the city of Perm, and was recognized as a new martyr afterwards.
Matfey Shaheen
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 20
As one of the oldest hierarchs of the Russian Church, who reportedly refused to nominate himself as a candidate for the Patriarchal Throne, Metropolitan Vladimir led the Ukrainian Orthodox Church for all those many, often painful years, from 1992 until his repose in 2014.
Archpriest Stephen Pavlenko
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 105
I’d like to share some stories which, one might say, are miraculous. As one might say, greatness can be found in little things.
Vladimir Basenkov
Rating: 9,2|Votes: 48
Until the revolution in Russia, there was a universal tradition of reading the “lay order” of the services. In the absence of the priest in church, or at home, the entire family would read part or all of the daily cycle of Church services. We will talk today about what happened to this good tradition, how to revive it, and what benefit it brings for the whole body of the Church.
Rating: 8,1|Votes: 22
These people may be the smallest Slavic nation, but their achievements are monumental.
Rating: 8,6|Votes: 42
Now, during this new time of troubles, we deeply require church education, especially concerning the events in Ukraine. Wherever there is disinformation and ignorance, this is where it’s easiest to spread heresy. It’s time to rediscover our history, and learn where we came from.
Archpriest Andrew Phillips
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 36
Archbishop Augustine was responsible for the conversion of Kent, the spiritual Garden of England, a bridgehead among the pagan English kingdoms. How?
Rating: 10|Votes: 36
On the appointed day, the commandant arrived together with his retinue. He was, as befits a Nazi commandant, strict and unapproachable.
Taras Melnick
Rating: 8,6|Votes: 24
The implementation of the “OCU” project has become a serious milestone on the road to the Vatican’s success in its multi-layered and coordinated strategy in the creeping Catholicization of the Ukraine.
John Sakelaris
Rating: 9,1|Votes: 9
For many centuries a Greek Asia Minor was an important part of the Byzantine Empire, which was a largely Greek, Orthodox Christian entity that reached the peak of its success and prosperity in the early eleventh century, when it was the envy of the rest of the known world. Then, over the following four centuries, the Byzantine Greeks were attacked by the Western European Crusaders and by the Muslim Turks.
Maria Litzman
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 26
They endured a great deal, but in all periods of their lives we see that they unwaveringly followed the Lord and managed to preserve the light of faith. Tsar Nicholas’s diaries enlighten us as to how they spent this holy day.
Archpriest Dimitry Sydor
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 23
Why did this ancient Slavic Orthodox nation have to suffer so much grief and oppression from constantly changing groups of nomads, to occupiers and invaders, to the next “liberators”, and then some more “benefactors”?
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 42
We state that the idea of overcoming the church schism in Ukraine by the granting of a Tomos of autocephaly to the non-canonical church groups (“UOC-KP” and “UAOC”) has turned out to be a grave error.
Amanda Borschel-Dan
Rating: 7,4|Votes: 8
Two minuscule 2,600-year-old inscriptions recently uncovered in the City of David’s Givati Parking Lot excavation are vastly enlarging the understanding of ancient Jerusalem in the late 8th century BCE.
Sergei Shumilo
Rating: 7,7|Votes: 10
And although there is virtually nothing and no one left of Lipkovsky in the Church outwardly, it hovers over our Church as a black raven, corrupting it from the inside to this day…
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 18
Rather than attempting to add to the litany of excellent publications on the feast day, and retell the same glorious stories, let’s take a look and reflect on some stories and aspects of the Lavra that are rarely told in the English language.
Rating: 10|Votes: 9
The “Will and Testament” of the Forty Martyrs—the Roman soldiers of the Eleventh Thundering Legion (Legio XII Fulminata) who suffered in 320 in the town of Sebaste (Lesser Armenia)—is an important historical document and memorial of early Christian hagiographic literature.
