Mercy is Living for the Sake of Repentance

Andrei Salnikov

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Mercy is Living for the Sake of Repentance

Andrei Salnikov

There isn’t an Orthodox church in Russia that does not have an icon of St. Nicholas. His image appears also on the wall of a church that was once the main cathedral of the St. Kirill of Novozersk (New Lake) Monastery on Ognenny (Fiery) Island in Novozersk (Belozersk region). The Monastery has long been occupied by a penal colony, and in 1990 they began sending here those who have been given life sentences.

Do We Really Need a Church in Antarctica?

Priest Constantine Kravtsov, Hieromonk Pavel (Gelyastanov)

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Orthodoxy Today

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Do We Really Need a Church in Antarctica?

Priest Constantine Kravtsov, Hieromonk Pavel (Gelyastanov)

What do we know about the sixth continent other than that it is the abode of penguins and polar explorers, and that endless icebergs move around its shores? The traveller who finds himself, not even on the continent, but at its threshold on one of its islands, feels like he’s on another planet.

Reclaiming Christmas!

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Reclaiming Christmas!

If the Grinch had stolen that Christmas, then perhaps the Nativity of Christ could become more central — even to Christians! In my fantasizing, I created an ideal world with an ideal celebration of the Nativity of Christ.

Should we go to a priest or to a psychologist?

Fr. Raphael Noica (of Essex)

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Should we go to a priest or to a psychologist?

Fr. Raphael Noica (of Essex)

Fathers, priests! This is our prerogative! We must not only be able to replace the psychologist, but surpass above any expectation what he can do for a client.

The Orthodox Church of Greece and the Economic Crisis

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The Orthodox Church of Greece and the Economic Crisis

On November 12th a Public Lecture, organized by the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics (LSE), was delivered by His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatius of Demetrias, on the theme “The Orthodox Church of Greece and the Economic Crisis”.