St. Seraphim of Sarov in Georgia

Maria Saradzhishvili

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St. Seraphim of Sarov in Georgia

Maria Saradzhishvili

The most popular Russian saint in Georgia is St. Seraphim of Sarov. If you google “წმ. სერაფიმე საროველი…” (“Seraphim of Sarov” in Georgian), you will find a multitude of pages and will read comments which are full of love.

For 2017, Resolve to Acquire the Spirit of Peace

Fr. Barnabas Powell

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For 2017, Resolve to Acquire the Spirit of Peace

Fr. Barnabas Powell

If you’re still looking for a New Year’s resolution, you couldn’t do better than to try the best-known instruction of a 19th-century Russian monk named Seraphim of Sarov: “Acquire the Spirit of Peace, and thousands around you will be saved.”

Enmity, Discernment

Fr. Ted Bobosh

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Enmity, Discernment

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Christ’s Gospel commandments are hard. Sometimes they seem obscure, for how can we do them? Is it humanly possible?

To See Him Face to Face

Fr. Stephen Freeman

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To See Him Face to Face

Fr. Stephen Freeman

In both Latin and Greek, the word translated as “person,” actually refers to the face, or a mask (as a depiction of the face). The face is not only our primary presentation to the world, and our primary means of relationship, it is also, somehow, that which is most definitively identified with our existence as persons.

Try not to judge, and the joy of the Nativity will last

Bishop Savva of Voskresensk

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Try not to judge, and the joy of the Nativity will last

Bishop Savva of Voskresensk

What is joy in life, and are we ready to leave all and follow after the star of Bethlehem more than 2,000 years after the Nativity of Christ? We spoke with Bishop Savva of Voskresensk, vicar of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, superior of the Novospassky Monastery...