Priest Alexander Azarenkov, Peter Davydov
The main goal of the events is to develop and strengthen, primarily in children, values that are seemingly obvious and understandable to everyone, for without such things as politeness, mercy, faithfulness and respect for elders, our life would turn into hell.
Svetlana Rayskaya
Like any trial sent by God to the mankind, war weeds out the unfaithful and the hesitant and strengthens the faithful, taking their souls to the new heaven.
Deacon Pavel Serzhantov
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St. John Cassian expressed not simply his own theological opinion, but gave voice to the experience of the hesychastic monks’ ascetical experience of synergy. Striving for their own salvation, the hesychasts saw and understood that asceticism is salvific then and only then when two powers are at work within it in harmony—the Divine and the human. God and man are co-workers in the cause of salvation; their synergy leads sinners into the Heavenly Kingdom.
Archpriest Andrew Phillips
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Sixty-five years after the greatest saint of the Russian Diaspora, St. John of Shanghai, an impeccable Russian patriot, monarchist and anti-ecumenist, drew up a list of Western Orthodox saints to be added to the Russian Orthodox calendar, word has reached Moscow.
Fr. James Guirguis
He was once called “the cause of all disorders and disturbances in the Church.” Now imagine that he was called “the cause of all disorders and disturbances in the Church” by the Patriarch of Constantinople himself.