Patient Endurance is The Fruit of Virtue, and it is Nourished By Prayer

Anastasia Rahlina, Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 9,6|Votes: 18

Patient Endurance is The Fruit of Virtue, and it is Nourished By Prayer

Anastasia Rahlina, Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol

When I saw him praying in church, then I thought: if there is some person who holds the helm of the whole world, it isn’t the president of America, it isn’t a communist, it isn’t any person of this world—it’s Elder Paisios. He is able to steer the rudder of the whole world.

Responsibility Tour to the far ends of the Congo

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Orthodoxy Around the World

Rating: 10|Votes: 3

Responsibility Tour to the far ends of the Congo

These people have no priest, no church. They rent a classroom in a school where they gather every Sunday in order to chant and read the New Testament. They have zeal of God and a fervent desire to be baptized and have a priest, a sacred church, a school.

“Father, there’s no firewood, and no money!"

A Letter About the Miraculous Help of Holy Hieromartyr Hilarion

Novice Maria Egorova

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Rating: 9,5|Votes: 22

“Father, there’s no firewood, and no money!"

A Letter About the Miraculous Help of Holy Hieromartyr Hilarion

Novice Maria Egorova

The fathers blessed me to find a load of firewood “for the sake of Christ”. I went to Fr. Hilarion’s grave and said, “Father, there’s no firewood, and no money. Help!”

The Goal of History is the Birth of the Christ

Fr. Ted Bobosh

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Rating: 2|Votes: 1

The Goal of History is the Birth of the Christ

Fr. Ted Bobosh

“The entire month of December had taken on the character of a forefeast for Christmas. In this context, the theme of the original preparatory Sunday, the ‘Sunday of the Holy Fathers’ […], commemorating the ancestors of Christ ‘according to the flesh’ […], especially the patriarch Abraham, to whom the promise was first given (Gen. 12:3, 22:18), is fundamental to the whole period.

The Problem of Miracles

Religion acknowledges miracles

Ivan M. Andreev

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 10|Votes: 1

The Problem of Miracles

Religion acknowledges miracles

Ivan M. Andreev

Some scientists (insufficiently educated in philosophy) categorically reject the possibility of miracles and regard a miracle as contradictory to the laws of nature. Very often such scholars assert that miracles appear to be either a fiction, a fraud, or such a phenomenon which science cannot at present explain, but will certainly be explained scientifically later on. What is unintelligible today might be intelligible and explainable tomorrow.