Let Us Give Thanks Unto the Lord!

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Orthodoxy Around the World

Rating: 5,7|Votes: 6

Let Us Give Thanks Unto the Lord!

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.

Family Dinner as the Best Time to Educate Children

A Mother’s Notes

Anna Saprykina

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Education

Rating: 9,9|Votes: 7

Family Dinner as the Best Time to Educate Children

A Mother’s Notes

Anna Saprykina

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...

The Feast of the Holy Archangel Michael and the Bodiless Powers

St. Sergius Orthodox Church in Sargodha, Pakistan

Fr. Joseph Farooq

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Churches and Monasteries

Rating: 6,6|Votes: 7

The Feast of the Holy Archangel Michael and the Bodiless Powers

St. Sergius Orthodox Church in Sargodha, Pakistan

Fr. Joseph Farooq

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.”

“Don’t Be Afraid to Preach Christ”

Three men from the Caucasus region recount how Fr. Daniel Sisoyev influenced their lives.

Priest George Maximov

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Coming to Orthodoxy

Rating: 8,9|Votes: 7

“Don’t Be Afraid to Preach Christ”

Three men from the Caucasus region recount how Fr. Daniel Sisoyev influenced their lives.

Priest George Maximov

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.

The Parable of the Good Samaritan. On Love for God and Neighbor

Bishop Nektary (Kontsevich)

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 10|Votes: 1

The Parable of the Good Samaritan. On Love for God and Neighbor

Bishop Nektary (Kontsevich)

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?