Rev. Dr. Oliver Subotic
For Orthodoxy, the fundamental goal is the deification of man, his transformation in Christ, and not anything of this world.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s Archbishop Job of Shumen concelebrated with the Metropolitan of Sliven at a feast-day Liturgy for St. John of Rila in Burgas, Bulgaria, in a visible display of unity between Ukrainian and Bulgarian clergy amid the schism in Ukraine.
The right hand of St. Spyridon of Tremythus, one of the Orthodox Church’s most venerated wonderworkers, arrived at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow on Tuesday evening as part of a monthlong pilgrimage across Russia.
Metropolitan Ioann offered a prayer to the Mother of God for health, salvation, peace and help for everyone working in the hospital as well as the patients being treated there. He also addressed those gathered, stressing how important it was for doctors and sick children to touch the myrrh-streaming icon.
Alexandra Kalinovskaya
The diocese of Voronezh was new and poor, established for the most part to combat the spread of the Old Believers. At that time, the land of Voronezh was troubled because of the “bespopovtsy” (priestless Old Believers), involuntary settlers from other places, and the local people with lax morals. The task of restoring order in the diocese was a serious challenge for the saint.
Archimandrite Sofian (Boghiu)
This is precisely what today’s feast calls each of us to do: to undergo an inward transformation, to be purified and enlightened, and to bring our lives into harmony with the holy will of God, who always desires what is good and blessed for us and for all mankind.
Hieromonk Philofei (Makharramov)
Here is the ideal that Christ left us: meekness, the spirit of humility, the spirit of love, and the spirit of self-sacrifice—this is always associated with self-emptying; we will always have to humble ourselves.
Starting August 20, the relic will travel to 13 cities across Russia, remaining in the country for about a month before concluding its tour in Moscow on September 20.
Hieromonk Pafnuty (Fokin)
Although she grew up in an atheistic Jewish family, from the age of six she felt drawn to the Orthodox faith and was baptized in 1941.
Two local canonization services were celebrated in Romania on Sunday, proclaiming the holiness of four Romanian women.
Fourteen days of intense sobriety to reach the greatest Marian joy: this is the logic of the Dormition Fast.
Hieromonk Agafangel (Davlatov)
These Seven Holy Youths fell into a deep and sound sleep; they did not die, but rather fell asleep, and they told this story themselves almost two centuries after they were sealed in this cave.
Hieromonk Spyridon (Dorosh)
Our faith is called Christianity because Christ is at its center. We look to Him, we strive towards Him, and we become like Him.
His Holiness Patriarch Daniil of Bulgaria joined hundreds of pilgrims this week on a six-day, 75-mile procession retracing the path once taken by the relics of St. John of Rila, walking the final stretch to the Seven Rila Lakes before the group completed its journey at Rila Monastery.
Thousands of pilgrims gathered at the Annunciation Monastery in Supraśl, Poland, on August 9-10 to mark the feast of the Supraśl Icon of the Mother of God, one of the Polish Orthodox Church’s most celebrated feasts of the Theotokos.
The monument was unveiled in the 160th anniversary year of the saint’s birth.
Part of the relics of St. Gorazd I, a disciple of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, have returned to Greater Moravia from Albania after 1,200 years, and they’re now resting in the cathedral church of the Olomouc-Brno Diocese of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia.
Sergei Kagirin
Hieromartyr Benjamin was condemned for his sharply negative attitude towards the Renovationist schism.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)
Sanctity inspires, heals, and calls us to goodness. It proves that the Gospel is not a distant ideal but real life, accessible to each of us.
Every August, the Orthodox faithful gather in Corfu to celebrate the great St. Spyridon of Tremithus, one of the most beloved saints not only of the Church in Greece, but of the entire Orthodox Church.
