The Church is often compared to a ship traveling the sea of life, and each helmsman—each Patriarch—guides the ship his own way: one must navigate stormy seas, another through a reef filled with hazardous submerged rocks, another navigates the open seas.
James Heiser
It’s also been a year where various Islamists speaking on TV shows called Christians kafirs (heretics) and insisted that they should pay the jizya (Islamic fine for non-Muslims), pushing Egypt’s Christians to spiral into an even more intense wave of panic.
The season has become so very noisy that it is harder and harder to prepare. And yet haven’t you noticed how more and more people crave something besides the chaos?
Fr. Christopher Hill
Zamoskvorechie ('the-area-beyond-the-River-Moscow') epitomizes Orthodox Moscow, the Russian capital famed before the 1917 Revolution for its 'forty-times-forty' churches.
John Sandinopoulos
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The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate approved on October 4th the canonization of Eldress Sophia, the holy ascetic of Panagia Kleisoura Monastery which is dedicated to the Nativity of the Theotokos. The official Act of Canonization by the Ecumenical Patriarchate is still awaited.
