Rating: 10|Votes: 8
The saint lived in very simple circumstances: he slept on straw, covered by a sheepskin coat. His humility was so great that he paid no attention to the workers who laughed at him as he walked about the monastery, pretending that he did not hear it. He often said, “Forgiveness is better than revenge.”
Priest Pavel Gumerov
Rating: 7,9|Votes: 20
Once a certain priest went to visit the now reposed elder Archpriest Nicholai Guryanov and told him about the sorrows and problems he was having. Fr. Nicholai heard him out and said, “Rejoice!” “What is there to rejoice about?” The priest thought to himself.
Rating: 1|Votes: 2
Akathists were read before the icon every week. Once, during such a reading, Metropolitan Elias suddenly appeared in the church. Having seen the renewed icon and the nuns praying before it on their knees, he said “Now I understand why I had to give the icon, and why She wished to be here.”
Faraj Obagi
Mhardeh, the city of the sun along the Orontes, refuses for its fate to be like the fate of Mosul. Its people firmly state that they are prepared to die rather than leave their city.
Archbishop Seraphim (Ivanov)
Rating: 4|Votes: 1
We Christians, even today, are faced with a great challenge—which we face with the aid of the Church Mysteries, of fasting and prayer—and that is to be transfigured here on earth, in our souls and bodies, which really happens to the saints of God, the righteous and simply good Christians.