His Holiness Patriarch Kirill
On September 27, 2014, on the feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Creating Cross of the Lord, His Holiness Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow & All Russia, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in Moscow’s Church of the Holy Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome. Upon completion of the service, the Primate of the Russian Church addressed the faithful with a sermon.
Fr. Seraphim Holland
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Brothers and sisters, I beg you to cultivate this feeling of sorrow in your heart, sorrow for your own sins, sorrow for the situation of those in the world. Not out of judgment on them, but out of deep sorrow that there is so much pain, that there is so much aimlessness and uselessness in the world, that people you love are having troubles and you don't know how to help them.
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
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There is a passage in the Gospel in which the Lord says to us, Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends (Jn. 15:13). These words resolve the antinomy between the horror of the Cross and the glory of it, between death and the Resurrection.
Roman Savchuk
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 29
There are moments when it seems that circumstances are indeed beyond our power, when life breaks down and it’s painful even to look at the world around us. Reality is cruel, and the soul can truly become sick. And no one knows when sorrows will knock at doors of the heart. But we must know in that moment how to answer these unawaited guests…
Olga Rozhneva
Rating: 6,9|Votes: 11
On September 7/20 we celebrate the memory of the great Optina elder, Macarius. The saint’s life is deeply edifying for contemporary people. What kinds of lessons can we learn from the elder’s life?