He established a poor-house and took in the destitute, who came to him from everywhere. In the principality he built fifteen more churches. Saint Roman was present every day at the divine services, and he often conversed with pious monks.
She was of a great age, and had lived with a husband for seven years from her virginity; and she was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not leave the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
Tikhon Kilimov, Nun Lydia Derzhavina
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Nun Lydia (Derzhavina) was born in 1936. She is the widow of Archpriest John Derzhavin and the mother of eleven children. All the children in the Derzhavin family have connected their lives with the Church: three sons are priests and two daughters are matushkas. In this interview Matushka Lydia speaks about the spiritual significance of the Great Patriotic War (World War II) for the Russian people, on the severe trials that befell the Church in the twentieth century, and on contemporary temptations.
Priest Vasily Kutsenko
Rating: 1,5|Votes: 2
“In the Liturgy we hear the heartbeat of the Church.” As man cannot live without his heart, so the Church cannot be imagined without the Liturgy, because it is not without Christ. Believers commune of the Holy Body and Blood precisely during the Divine Liturgy, and the Church manifests itself in them, in the Holy Gifts. The Liturgy is the revelation of the Kingdom of God.
Iulia Aksenova
Rating: 10|Votes: 18
The wives of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia travelled a bitter and sorrowful path. They bore a high service amidst a godless world, raising children, enduring deprivations, repression from the authorities, hunger, and poverty. How did they survive? How did they remain true to Christ? This is what our article is about.
