Hieromonk Job Gumerov
Rating: 8|Votes: 9
Father Daniel Sysoev carried out his missionary activity among Moslems. His Evangelical preaching was very successful: He converted and baptized many people; he received death-threats in response. His answer to such threats was to preach Christ with still greater zeal.
St. Paisios the Athonite
Rating: 6,2|Votes: 33
First, they should read the New Testament to learn the meaning of Christ, to be shaken up a little; later they can read the Old Testament. Do you know how hard it is when they have read nothing and yet they come to ask for help? It is like an elementary school child going to a university professor and saying, “Help me.”
Rating: 6|Votes: 2
Jakarta, Indonesia- Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral) of Eastern America and New York, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) Archbishop of Australia and New Zealand arrived in Indonesia today and served a liturgy in Jakarta were he ordained 2 Indonesians deacons to the Priesthood. During the course of his visit to Indonesia His Eminence will ordain 4 priests and 1 deacon. In the ROCOR mission of Indonesia there are already over 2500 Indonesian Orthodox parishioners. The Dean of the Indonesian Orthodox mission Archimandrite Daniel Byantoro held a press-conference with www.pravoslavie.ru to describe the difficult situation in the rapidly expanding Orthodox mission in Indonesia.
I send my heartfelt greetings to you and all your brotherhood in Christ on this day, the fifteenth anniversary of the restoration of monastic life within the walls of Monastery of the Meeting of the Vladimir Icon (Sretensky). I likewise greet the professors, teachers, and students of the Sretensky Seminary with its ten year anniversary! I prayerfully wish God’s abundant mercy and blessings upon your service to the Lord and His image, which is reflected in our neighbor.
It is with great fondness and spiritual joys that I remember my visits to Sretensky Monastery during the days of revival in the 1990's and then once again as the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America during my first Primatial visit earlier this year. 1 am also aware that you, dear Father Tikhon, with the blessing of the Most Holy Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia also received my two predecessors during their visits to Moscow, thus enabling them to see the positive work of the monastic brotherhood of Sretensky Monastery.