Talia the fearless motorcycle racer (and great-great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I)

Olga Lunkova

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Orthodoxy Today

Rating: 7|Votes: 3

Talia the fearless motorcycle racer (and great-great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I)

Olga Lunkova

I would like to open one of the little-known pages of the book of the imperial Romanov family, and to remember its last legitimate male line descendant, who spent almost all her life in the USSR (as a class enemy) and post-Soviet Russia.

Holy Great Martyr Catherine of Alexandria

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Holy Great Martyr Catherine of Alexandria

The Ladder of Heavenly Unity: St Catherine’s Monastery of Sinai

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Rating: 9,3|Votes: 11

The Ladder of Heavenly Unity: St Catherine’s Monastery of Sinai

Continuing Orthodox monasticism’s oldest unbroken tradition, Sinai monks still liturgize, shoeless, over the roots of the Burning Bush. On the holy ground where Moses was commanded to remove his sandals – together with all earthly logic – monks turn diversity’s polarizing forces to unity – some of the ways St. Catherine’s Monastery of Sinai brings Byzantium’s patristic spirit into the modern era as living tradition.

Ridding Ourselves of Anger

Fr. Ted Bobosh

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 9,9|Votes: 7

Ridding Ourselves of Anger

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Anger may occur in our hearts in reaction to something we experience, but then that anger has to be harnessed by wisdom, humility and love to become an energy that inspires us to the good.

The Limits of Being Rich. On the Parable on Luke 12:16-21

Fr. Ted Bobosh

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 6,8|Votes: 8

The Limits of Being Rich. On the Parable on Luke 12:16-21

Fr. Ted Bobosh

In Luke 12:16-21, we are presented the story of a man to whom God spoke directly. Unfortunately, God’s words to the man were “You fool!” It certainly would be a rude awakening for any of us believers if when God finally spoke to us, first words were to call us a fool!