Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov), Zinaida Oborneva
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
Missionary work in this area is always dangerous. We hope in God's grace and the protection of the Mother of God. I am often in hot spots of Eastern Congo; we experience all those events, and are consoled and thank God that we have endured these trials. We have Christians there, missionary centers and parishes, which must not be abandoned.
Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov)
Rating: 8,9|Votes: 10
That is just how it was. From early morning, at his post by the Holy Gates, Fr. Abbakum, demanded that every person entering the monastery read the Nicene-Constantinople Creed, composed by the fathers of the first and second Ecumenical Councils in the fourth century. His calculation was ingeniously simple: every church-going Orthodox person knows this text by heart.
Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral)
Rating: 6|Votes: 8
Only in peace of soul is there true blessedness for us; only those who possess an untroubled conscience before God and their fellow man can really be called happy. It is never too late to obtain this happiness, this peace: one need only actively strive towards God to the limit of one's abilities, trying to live in love and peace with others and to resolve firmly to begin a new, pious life.
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
The fifty days following Pascha until the Feast of Pentecost are known as the period of the Pentecostarion in the Orthodox Church. At the mid-point between these great feasts of Pascha and Pentecost, on the twenty-fifth day which is always a Wedneday, is one of the most beloved feasts for the most devout Orthodox Christians known quit simply as Mid-Pentecost. Mid-Pentecost is to the Pentecostarion what the Third Sunday of Great Lent which honors the Holy Cross is to the period of Great Lent. It is a day which helps us focus on the central theme of the entire period.
Rating: 5|Votes: 1
During every Orthodox Liturgy, a request is thrice repeated that we be granted a "Christian ending to our lives that is painless, blameless, and peaceful…" "The Orthodox understanding of a blameless end includes the preparation for the moment of death, which is considered to be a spiritually significant stage in man's life.
