Rating: 8,2|Votes: 12

What is Family Happiness?

Priest Gleb Grozovsky

Oh, how important it is to submit the body to the spirit in order to escape a family break-up. Today in Russia over fifty percent of all marriages end in divorce [and America is not far behind]; every second union of loving couples falls apart. Is this really love? The causes of this may be various, but the meaning is the same.

There is only one problem with our homeland—demographics! —Metropolitan Anthimos of Alexandropoulos

Thrace is like a thermometer, a compass, which shows where Greece is going. Athens is not even capable of looking into this destructive course. Nevertheless, it is clearly seen in Thrace. We see it and cry out. If some decisive measures are not taken (which we have proposed), the anxiety of the Thracian Christian world will lead to dissatisfaction and destabilization in the region, and this will spread out to the whole country.

Rating: 10|Votes: 5

The Story of the Great Standoff on the Ugra River

We have not written this in order to reproach them, but may not the fools glory in their folly, saying, "We have delivered the Russian land by our weapons", but may they give glory to God and His Most Pure Mother the Theotokos, for He has saved us; and may they reject this folly, and do battle after battle, and bravery after bravery for the sake of Orthodox Christianity against the [works of] infidels.

Rating: 1|Votes: 1

How is Our Stomach Connected With Our Life, or, Should the Church Slavonic Texts be Revised?

Nun Cornelia (Rees)

After the many years of work spent on the translation, Met. Sergius came out to read the Great Canon on Monday of the first week of Great Lent [in the modernized form]. "With what shall I begin to lament the cursed deeds of my life…" After the service, the people did not disperse, and stood there silently. When the future Patriarch started leaving the church, someone asked him "Your Eminence, when will they read the Canon of St. Andrew of Crete?"

Rating: 10|Votes: 1

"Orthodoxy, in its endurance and faithfulness to its roots, will always manifest a certain spiritual novelty."

An Interview with Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

Orthodoxy is not the Russian Orthodox of which St. Seraphim of Sarov spoke as of a retaining wall, but is an entity in and of itself, something that is not necessarily for everyone, but it would be good, living this Orthodoxy, to share it. These treasures will not be taken away from you if you display them, in word, and in deed, and in thought, no?