Archimandrite Ioanichie (Balan)
Rating: 10|Votes: 6
Тhe fathers from Sihastria Monastery and the faithful from the region remember with great reverence the name of Protosinghel Joel (Gheorghiu). He was a skilled spiritual father, meek and merciful, with a heart pure before God and man. He was also a father of absolute obedience, humility, and prayer. Few from the community loved the services of the Church, the good order [of the monastic life] and silence as much as Fr. Joel did. However, in order to attain this spiritual measure, one needs over fifty years of ascetic labor, obedience, patience, and renunciation of all that is transitory. Otherwise, one is unable to acquire a peaceful conscience and the hope of salvation.
Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov
Rating: 10|Votes: 5
We very much pity those Orthodox Christians who think that the best rest for their exhausted soul is to watch television news. This isn’t a bad thing, perhaps, but it’s a dead thing. You may spend all of the earthly time you have been allotted with such distractions, but you will never be at peace. If you want to calm your mind and ease your heart, try calling instead on the most holy name of Jesus Christ, without haste and with only one intent: to attract His attention and repent of your sins.
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 2
The enthronement of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia took place at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on February 1, 2009. He was elected to the Moscow Patriarchal Throne by the Local Council [Pomestny Sobor] of the Russian Orthodox Church on January 27.
On the evening of January 27, 2009, the results of the election of the new Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia were announced. The Local Council [Pomestny Sobor] elected His Eminence Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad as the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
From the fourteenth century to the present day, the land of Kosovo and Metohija has been, and will always remain, the spiritual heartland of the Serbian Orthodox nation. Sanctified by a multitude of monasteries and churches as well as by the blood of martyrs, the holy land of Kosovo occupies a place of honor and reverence within the souls of all believing Serbs.