Rating: 10|Votes: 2
In 2003, over a decade after the fall of communism and the resurrection of the Russian Orthodox Church, the decision was made to return the precious icon to its original home. The icon began its year-long journey to Russia at the 99th annual Pilgrimage to St Tikhon Monastery, South Canaan, Pennsylvania, May 23–26, 2003.
Sergei Chesnokov
On July 8, the Day of Family, Love and Faithfulness, the International Festival of Social Technologies in Defense of Family Values "Pro-Life 2013" has started its work in the Salut Hotel in Moscow. The forum will gather participants from over 60 regions of Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus as well as delegates from Ireland, the Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia, Georgia and Kazakhstan to search for solutions for protecting the lives of unborn children.
St. John of Shanghai
Saints retain all that is characteristic of the human condition; they know everything that is ours. They are near to God, but they are also near to us; they walked and dwelt among us. The people of Holy Russia venerated them, kissed their icons and holy relics, wanted to be as close as possible to the saints, touched holiness, and the Russian land was filled with it.
Rating: 5,3|Votes: 4
Six months before his appearing to the most holy Virgin Mary in Nazareth, the great Gabriel, archangel of the Lord, appeared to Zacharias the High Priest in the Temple in Jerusalem. Before he revealed the miraculous conception by a virgin who had not known a man, the archangel revealed the wondrous conceiving by an old and barren woman.
Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko)
Rating: 8,2|Votes: 5
Brothers and sisters, today the Holy Church opens before us our native heaven—all the Saints who shone in Russia. They shine as bright stars before us. And the first among them is St. Vladimir. He was a gifted military leader, statesman, a man of penetrating mind and strong will. The political situation among the Russian Slavs required just such a man. Many Slavic tribes were living at that time on the shores of the Dnieper River, and all of them had already been influenced by the Christian message—the dawn of a new life was approaching.
