Priest Constantine Kravtsov, Hieromonk Pavel (Gelyastanov)
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
What do we know about the sixth continent other than that it is the abode of penguins and polar explorers, and that endless icebergs move around its shores? The traveller who finds himself, not even on the continent, but at its threshold on one of its islands, feels like he’s on another planet.
Yuri Kishchuk
Rating: 10|Votes: 3
There is snow all around, and the alluring smell of oranges and sweets is in the air. Christmas and New Year are coming… People are thronging to the stores, buying gifts and food for themselves, their family and friends. In all this hustle-bustle not all remember that the Church is also preparing to meet its greatest winter festival, the Nativity of Christ.
Olga Rozhneva
Rating: 8,6|Votes: 7
During the fast leading up to the Nativity of Christ, Christians are reminded once again of their duty to take a look around them and give what they can to relieve the needs of others. Here is some advice from the Optina Elders on almsgiving.
Fr. Stephen Freeman
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 13
“Sin” is a word that is used frequently in a wrong manner. Thus when someone asks, “Is it a sin to do x,y, z?” what they mean is, “Is it against God’s rules to do x,y, z?” But this is incorrect.
Fr. John Whiteford
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 12
It is therefore not only permissible, but obligatory for all of the faithful, and even more so for the clergy, to oppose these attempts to infect our Church with the same heresies that have wreaked such havoc in mainline Protestant Churches, and are in the process of doing the same in the Roman Catholic Church.