Spiritual Wisdom from St. Nectarios of Aegina

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Spiritual Wisdom from St. Nectarios of Aegina

He who does not know himself does not know God, either. And he who does not know God does not know the truth and the nature of things in general... He who does not know himself continually sins against God and continually moves farther away from Him.

30th Anniversary of Metropolitan Hilarion’s Episcopal Consecration & 80th Anniversary of Eastern American Diocese’s Founding celebrated at Diocesan Center

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Churches and Monasteries

30th Anniversary of Metropolitan Hilarion’s Episcopal Consecration & 80th Anniversary of Eastern American Diocese’s Founding celebrated at Diocesan Center

The jubilee celebrations were held in the Diocese’s recently opened administrative center. For the first time since the great consecration of St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, the Divine Liturgy was concelebrated by 9 hierarchs.

Holy Fathers Seiriol and Cybi of Anglesey in Wales

Commemorated February 1/14 (St.Seiriol); November 8/21 (St. Cybi)

Dmitry Lapa

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Holy Fathers Seiriol and Cybi of Anglesey in Wales

Commemorated February 1/14 (St.Seiriol); November 8/21 (St. Cybi)

Dmitry Lapa

St. Seiriol is one of a great multitude of island saints who led a solitary life in tiny hermits’ cells on small isles off the coasts of Wales, Scotland and Ireland. St. Cybi is along with St. Seiriol one of the most venerated saints in Anglesey.

Feast of St. Archangel Michael

St. John of Kronstadt

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Feast of St. Archangel Michael

St. John of Kronstadt

Today, dear brethren, we celebrate the glorious feast of the lightning-like Archangel Michael and all the heavenly bodiless powers. On this day let us talk of the boundless world of the angels.

Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone and the Orthodox Mission

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Orthodoxy Today

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Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone and the Orthodox Mission

Living right in the epicentre of the global Ebola epidemic is of course quite challenging. The slightest mistake in one’s daily routine can be fatal. Sometimes I wake up in the morning with a cough, or any other unusual symptom and I think to myself: “This is it, I have Ebola.”