Thrace is like a thermometer, a compass, which shows where Greece is going. Athens is not even capable of looking into this destructive course. Nevertheless, it is clearly seen in Thrace. We see it and cry out. If some decisive measures are not taken (which we have proposed), the anxiety of the Thracian Christian world will lead to dissatisfaction and destabilization in the region, and this will spread out to the whole country.
Nun Cornelia (Rees)
Rating: 1|Votes: 1
After the many years of work spent on the translation, Met. Sergius came out to read the Great Canon on Monday of the first week of Great Lent [in the modernized form]. "With what shall I begin to lament the cursed deeds of my life…" After the service, the people did not disperse, and stood there silently. When the future Patriarch started leaving the church, someone asked him "Your Eminence, when will they read the Canon of St. Andrew of Crete?"
Antony Kholodiuk
Rating: 6|Votes: 2
Russian nuns from the Mount of Olives frequently stayed at our house when they would visit Bethlehem on big holidays. Nun Tatyana, whom my brother Ilia and I called our “Russian grandmother” would visit. Ilia was killed at the front in Jordan when he was 23 years old... She brought me to the convent, “only for a couple of months,” and as it turned out, for the rest of my life.
Angie Giallourakis
Rating: 8|Votes: 1
What does it mean for us, as parents, to provide proper instruction to our children so that they may live a spiritually rich life? Should we make sure our children attend Sunday school or monthly youth group meetings? Well, that is a good start, but we need to do more. We need to help our children become spiritually rich by role modeling and engaging them in conversation about how to make the effort to become closer to God and feel His love.
Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)
"We still have hope," states a communiqué in the Rasko-Prizren diocese, "that the celebration of the Divine Liturgy, which prayerfully revived the monastery of the Holy Trinity, will be followed by other steps leading to a popular and spiritual rebirth, and Serbian return to this land."
