Petr Malkov
St. Ambrose of Milan says: “No one loved Christ more than Job.” It is from this perspective that we must approach this sacred history.
The Council of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church established several new feasts at its most recent session.
Irina Fedorkova
How little we appreciate our patron saints, how little we know about them, how little we pray to them, talk about them, or love them! But even when we forget them, they don’t forget us.
Hieromonk Sebastian (Kuznetsov)
The Samaritan Woman found great happiness at the well; she met God and believed in Him. Through her, nearly the entire city received the precious gift of faith in the Savior.
Elena Detinina
Amid the ringing silence was heard the maiden’s gentle reply: “I already have a Bridegroom—Jesus Christ. And I am ready to die for Him.”
A new publication from St. George Press presents a collection of homilies from one of Romania’s greatest 20th-century elders.
The love that radiated from Mother Theodosia was so all-embracing that sometimes people would simply come in and weep. They would leave, and everything in their life would be set aright. Without a word. The same still happens now, at her little chapel where she is buried.
The holy Passion-Bearers Boris and Gleb were the first Russian saints glorified by the Russian and Byzantine Churches.
Hierarchs and clergy of the Bulgarian and Macedonian Orthodox Churches came together on Sunday to celebrate the feast of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, the Enlighteners of the Slavs, “as an expression of Orthodox unity between the fraternal Macedonian and Bulgarian peoples.”
Vladimir Lossky
The feast of Mid-Pentecost occupies a place between the Resurrection of Christ and the Descent of the Holy Spirit, and thus it is adorned with the especial glory characteristic of “the root of the greatest feasts.”
Over the past week, hierarchs from two Sister Local Churches made this pilgrimage to seek the blessing and intercession of the great St. Nektarios.
Last July, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church canonized 16 martyrs, confessors, and ascetics who labored under the communist persecutions of the 20th century, including the Hieromartyr Ilarion (commemorated on September 18).
Hieromonk Athanasius (Deryugin)
In today’s Gospel reading, we see two reasons—two conditions necessary for the Lord to heal a sick person.
Priest Pavel Chekhranov
And the whole tragedy of the pursuing Pharoah, especially in these circumstances, was felt in our hearts more acutely than ever before—the White Sea with its white, icy covering, the floor beams on which we stood as on a choir loft, the fear of being discovered by the watch. But despite all this our hearts were breathing joy, because we were celebrating the Paschal service against the strict orders of the commandant.
In the destroyed and lifeless Stalingrad, Ivan Pavlov made a vow—that if he returned alive, he would study to become a priest and serve God.
The feast of St. Sophia of Kleisoura, a great 20th-century Greek ascetic, was festively celebrated “with reverence, emotion, and the participation of numerous pilgrims” on May 5–6 at the Monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Kleisoura, Kastoria, where she ascetically labored for 55 years.
The service was attended by numerous clergy, monastics, and faithful who shared a spiritual bond with Fr. Roman Braga.
On May 3, the brotherhood of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra prayerfully commemorated the 35th anniversary of the repose of His Holiness Patriarch Pimen of Moscow and All Russia, who led the Russian Orthodox Church for 20 years.
Since 2010, annual memorial services have been held at the site, where researchers have discovered mass graves.
Gevorg Kazaryan
When the bandits saw the image, they were horrified— it was the very “novice” who had let them in! Yes, it was he who had opened the door!
