St. Leo the Great
Rating: 8,8|Votes: 6
Accordingly, dearly-beloved, throughout this time which elapsed between the Lord’s Resurrection and Ascension, God’s Providence had this in view, to teach and impress upon both the eyes and hearts of His own people that the Lord Jesus Christ might be acknowledged to have as truly risen, as He was truly born, suffered, and died. And hence the most blessed Apostles and all the disciples, who had been both bewildered at His death on the cross and backward in believing His Resurrection, were so strengthened by the clearness of the truth that when the Lord entered the heights of heaven, not only were they affected with no sadness, but were even filled with great joy.
Rating: 10|Votes: 4
In order to begin to understand the importance of the Lives of the Saints for our spiritual lives, I believe we can turn to no better or more thorough source than St. Justin Popovich's Introduction to his own compilation of the Lives of the Saints. A theologian, St. Justin saw no dichotomy between the Lives of the Saints and the theological writings of the Church. For him, as for the Church, theology and the Lives of the Saints form one whole.
Igumen Damascene (Orlovsky)
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
They live in poverty; they accept alms, but will not keep them for themselves. Zinaida, for example, brought all her alms to the savings bank. Render to Caesar the things that are Caesars (Mt. 22:21), she would say. "It came from the world and to the world it returns." There the money would be left.
Julian Lowenfeld
Rating: 5,3|Votes: 8
Above all else in life we must be grateful. Pushkin once wrote to Zhukovsky: call me crazy, call me eccentric, but just don’t ever call me ungrateful.” We essentially lose what we have when we forget to be grateful for it... His harmony is ever full of our faith’s core values: warmth and compassion, for which we must ever strive with dedicated astonishment.
Antonina Maga
The Dormition Church of the Mother of God in Casablanca, Morocco, under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, is in peril of destruction, as reported on June 1, 2012, by the Rector of Resurrection Church in Rabat, Morocco, Priest Maksim Massalitin.
