Rating: 6,7|Votes: 7
At around midnight on November 12th, the day on which the craftsmen expected to start their work, there was lightening and thunder - thunderbolts, one after the other. It was then that the guard of the governor's residence saw a monk approaching him holding a lit torch in his hand.
Fr. Herman (Podmoshensky)
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
And here, in the midst of this pre-Christmas joy so filled with impressions, there enters into the American consciousness a Russian monk from Valaam who was also connected with children, coziness, spice-cake, pretzels, covered by the Alaskan snow—St. Herman the Wonderworker of America.
Metropolitan Augoustinos Kantiotes
Rating: 8,2|Votes: 5
"It is my hope that I speak to the faithful who know but one kind of drunkenness, that holy drunkenness described by the Psalmist who exhorts us to taste and see that the Lord is good (Psalm 33:8). I hope that you have you ears open for blessed is he that speaketh in the ears of them that will hear (Sirach 25:9)."
Fr. Stephen Freeman
One of the most striking features of the Gospels is the frequent response of the Disciples after the resurrection of Christ: doubt.
Rating: 10|Votes: 5
Elder Kuksha, among us on earth only recently, is one of such Russian great Russian saints as St. Seraphim of Sarov and the Elders of Optina and Glinsk, who in recent centuries have illumined the world with the light of love, patience, and compassion.