Rating: 5,7|Votes: 6
Today is a special day for Americans, but it also provides us with a wonderful opportunity to remind Orthodox Christians around the world to give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, and His mercy endureth forever.
Anna Saprykina
Rating: 9,9|Votes: 7
To read something pious at the table is a normal thing for a monastery. But to do something like that in the family would be completely impossible—at least in such a large family as mine, with small children...
Fr. Joseph Farooq
Rating: 6,6|Votes: 7
It was a large gathering—almost 110 orthodox faithful and forty Catechumens joyfully participated in the celebration. This day is much blessed and honored by the orthodox faithful in Pakistan because the ROCOR Mission was named, “St. Michael the Archangel Orthodox Mission in Pakistan.”
Priest George Maximov
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 7
On November 20, 2014, five years passed since the day that priest Daniel Sisoyev’s life was cut short; he was murdered in the Church of the Apostle Thomas where he served. Many people remember him thankfully, and testify to how his words and example influenced their lives.
Bishop Nektary (Kontsevich)
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
Having delivered this sermon forty years after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia, Bishop Nektary compares the indifference the of rest of the world, even Christians, to the torture, imprisonment, and murder of millions of innocent victims in the Soviet Union, with the priest and Levite in the parable of the Good Samaritan. Perhaps we should heed this message when we read about the terrible suffering today in the Middle East, Africa, or eastern Ukraine?