Metropolitan Nikolaos
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“I see here only design. Firstly, to hide the responsibility of those who have brought us to our current tragic state; and secondly, to strike a blow not only at the personality of Fr. Ephraim, but also at the image of the Church in modern life,” the Metropolitan added. Metropolitan Chrysostom of Patras considers that the decision to arrest Fr. Ephraim is directed at the Church itself.
Fr. Sergius Chetverikov, St. Ambrose of Optina
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Wisdom seekers in the Lord! By the mercy and long-suffering of God we are once again reaching the yearly time of the Feast of Christ's Nativity. Instead of the usual simple greetings with the Feast, I want to say a few words to you about the great Mystery of this glorious Feast.
Nun Euphemia (Paschenko)
When the man stopped playing, she walked up to the gathering and said that she wanted to sing, "Because today is the Nativity of Christ." Without waiting for an answer, she began to sing a little song in her trembling, aged, but pure voice.
With profoundly-heartfelt spiritual joy I greet all the faithful children of the Russian Church Abroad, spread all over the world like kernels of God’s wheat, with the great and salutary Feast of Christ’s Nativity! May the Lord send all of us this joy which saves the world. This gladness is the fruit of the struggle of faith, and stems from the triumph of the Incarnation, from God becoming man, from hearing the celestial doxology from the heavens above the city of Bethlehem.
St. Theophan the Recluse
“Happy New Year,” we greet each other now. But has anyone given any thought as to how new this coming year is? And where would we get anything new from it? In what way does the present day differ from yesterday, or from the first day of the past year? And in the future, will there not be same interchange of days and nights, the same turn of months and seasons as there was before?
