Homily on the Feast of St. Nicholas
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Homily on the Feast of St. Nicholas

Metropolitan Nicholai (Yarushevich)

This virtue of love and mercy in all its beauty and power is personified, my dear ones, by the one whom our faithful, pious hearts glorify today: the “feeder of orphans,” consoler of the sorrowing, intercessor in prayer for all who seek God’s help and mercy—St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

St. Savva the Sanctified and His Return to the Holy Land in 1965
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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St. Savva the Sanctified and His Return to the Holy Land in 1965

Commemorated December 5/18

When he was seventeen years old he received monastic tonsure, and attained such perfection in fasting and prayer that he was given the gift of wonderworking.

A Story of Failure and a Story of Success
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Orthodoxy Today

A Story of Failure and a Story of Success

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

The fact is, whatever our path to the Church anywhere, Church life can only be built on the Rock of Tradition, not on the sand of the compromises of negative traits, of nominalism, pathology, fantasy or minimalism.

You have brothers who love you. Don’t forget us!
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Orthodoxy Around the World

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You have brothers who love you. Don’t forget us!

A talk with Bishop Qais (Sadiq) of Erzurum

On this day, when the Church commemorates the great saint of Damascus, John, we would like to acquaint our readers with a remarkable hierarch of the Antiochian Church, the Syrian bishop Qais (Sadiq) of Erzurum. Bishop Qais talks with Pravoslavie.ru correspondent Fares Nofal, an Orthodox Syrian living in Ukraine.

I thought that Russia was a Non-Christian Country
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Coming to Orthodoxy

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I thought that Russia was a Non-Christian Country

Interview with Anna Dao Bin, Orthodox Vietnamese

Vietnamese Anna Dao Bin was a member of a Protestant community for a long time and did not even know that there were other Christian denominations.