Hieromonk Athanasius (Deryugin)
Through the Holy Eucharist, through Communion, we affirm our unity with Christ, we affirm that we, the Church, are the Body of Christ.
Hieromonk Seraphim (Panich)
If you want to understand what the love of God is, then you cannot do without the Trinity. And the mystery of the Holy Trinity is comprehended—only partially—in the experience of spiritual life with ascetic labors.
Met. Neophytos is known as a stalwart hierarch, a strong defender of Orthodoxy, and an inheritor of the tradition of some of the 20th century’s greatest saints, whom he personally knew: Sts. Paisios, Porphyrios, Iakovos, Eumenios, and Gerontissa Galaktia
The pilgrimage site filled with visitors of all ages who came to venerate the wonderworking saint, pray, and lay their burdens before his holy relics.
St. Cleopa (Ilie)
He who fears God is above all the sages of this age. Blessed and thrice blessed is he who prepares for the heavenly journey.
The Patriarch moved along the lines of pilgrims, speaking with believers, blessing them, and offering words of support and encouragement as they waited through the night in prayer and silence.
The disciples did not know their Master, they did not know Christ—the Savior of the world Who performed so many miracles. Who revealed to them the mystery of God’s coming to earth and the incarnation of God the Word? The Holy Spirit.
Strong was the blessed one’s love for the Lord, and for this the Lord glorified him with His grace.
A new book on St. Gabriel (Urgebadze) presents the beloved elder’s life, teachings, and miracles.
Archimandrite Cleopa (Ilie)
When the Heavenly powers saw the Savior removing the gates on high, all the angels blew their trumpets, everyone started singing, and in a chorus of great rejoicing and great singing, Christ ascended and abolished—did not open, but abolished—the gates of Heaven.
Have you heard what Jesus Christ came down for? For the sake of love. Have you heard what He ascended for? To lift us up, the children of man, not in one day, not in two, not in a year, not in a hundred years, not in a thousand or ten thousand years, but all the days of old—that is, as long as the world stands.
Throughout the previous night, thousands of Belgrade residents waited for hours in line outside the Church of the Ascension and surrounding streets to venerate the belt. On Ascension Thursday morning, an even larger crowd assembled for the traditional procession through the capital’s streets.
St. Athanasy was canonized, along with St. Vladimir (Elizarov), by decision of the Russian Holy Synod on May 14. His name was added to the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.
Sergei Vityazev
Blessed Simon made many prophecies: he foresaw fires, foretold deaths and other events.
A Serbian Orthodox parish in Kalispell, Montana, has broken ground on a new church building dedicated to St. Herman of Alaska.
St. Nikolai (Velimirovic)
St. Nicholas is the people’s saint, the perfect image of those who, hearing the word of God, hastened to fulfill it and by their example taught others to do the same.
By decision of the Serbian Assembly of Bishops, which met in Belgrade from May 13 to 19, a new saint has been added to the liturgical calendar of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Elena Belova
For over nine centuries now, it has been home to a priceless treasure of the Orthodox world—the relics of the illustrious saint and wonderworker—St. Nicholas of Myra.
Earthly separation means almost nothing if there is a spiritual bond between us and the one we are parting from.
A monument to Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin), the Russian Orthodox Church’s most revered elder until his repose on March 15, 2025 at age 93, was unveiled on May 16 in his native Oryol Region.
