The Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of the Orthodox Church in America has published a second edition of a bilingual booklet containing the Akathist to St. Olga of Alaska along with a brief account of her life.
The feast of St. Vladimir the Great and the Baptism of Rus’ was festively celebrated throughout Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus on July 28, with major celebrations held in Moscow and Kiev.
Gevorg Kazaryan
Where there is no hope from men, help comes swiftly from Heaven.
Sergei Kagirin
His next step was to lead his people along the same path that he himself had walked. From then on, the path of the prince and his people was the path of an Orthodox nation.
The celebrations took place at the Archangel Gabriel Representation of the Antiochian Church, marking the patronal feast of the Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel.
Due to ongoing restoration work at the historic parish church of the patron saint, this year’s celebration was held for the fourth consecutive year at the Metropolitan Church of St. Demetrios in Chalkida.
The current pilgrimage follows, in a small way, that historic missionary path in reverse, with seminarians being formed for service in Alaska traveling to the land from which St. Innocent departed for the Aleutian Islands.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrated the rite of great consecration and the Divine Liturgy yesterday, July 26. He consecrated the church’s central altar as well as 20 antimensia.
The troparion was composed by Very Reverend Abbess Christophora of Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, and blessed for usage by His Eminence Archbishop Nathaniel of the Romanian Episcopate of America in a letter dated July 20.
Olga Sokirkina
On July 27, 1938, 142 people were shot at the infamous Butovo firing range near Moscow. Among them was Priest Leonid Druzhinin (commemorated July 14/27), an “anti-Soviet element” who had the “wrong” biography of being a clergyman.
Priest George Maximov
The Holy Martyr Gorazd (Pavlik; 1879–1942) is the most prominent saint of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia in the 20th century.
Priest Sergei Begiyan
Olga’s witness through her own life undoubtedly left its mark upon the hearts of her grandchildren. They remembered their holy grandmother. One of those grandsons would later become Grand Prince Vladimir, forever known as “the Fair Sun.”
Constantine Tsertsvadze
He preaches in different languages, he arranges people’s destinies; like a loving father, he seats friends who have fallen out together in concert halls, reminding them that the main movie God expects from us is a movie about love and forgiveness.
After the Liturgy, Fr. Maxim and parishioners walked in a cross procession to a chapel built for the 100th anniversary of the martyrdom of the Royal Martyrs in 2018.
The service marked the first time the Brotherhood solemnly celebrated the feast of its Heavenly patron since choosing St. John (Maximovitch) in 2025.
More than 44,000 pilgrims took part in the main services of the Royal Days festival in Ekaterinburg on July 16-17, marking the 108th anniversary of the martyrdom of the holy Royal Family and their faithful servants, including a nighttime Divine Liturgy at the Church on the Blood and a cross procession to Ganina Yama.
Schemamonk Panteleimon (Volkov)
Divine providence rules everything. Not a single process in the world is random. We need to be able to feel it inwardly. It’s like developing a ear for music.
Elena Detinina
July 5/18 is the feast-day of the holy Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, who was martyred for the faith of Christ in 1918.
Natalia Vashchina
Fr. Agapit survived nine years in total of continuous camps. Not everyone was able to survive this, given the monstrous conditions, inhumane treatment, hard labor, a huge number of infections, constant outbreaks of epidemics, and exhausting hunger and cold.
Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)
In the much-suffering Soviet Union, soaked in the blood of millions, betrayal was repeated exactly according to the same pattern…
