Tatiana Veselkina
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
This icon is the contemporary work of Sofrino craftsmen. It is an ordinary lithograph. It had been in the apartment of Muscovite Margarita Vorobyova, where it began to gush myrrh. This happened in 1998, after it had been placed on the relics of the blessed Matrona of Moscow, during her glorification on the 2nd of May. After some time, the icon was miraculously transformed, and now many who have seen it cannot tell that it is a lithograph and not an icon painted long ago.
Christian leaders who took the stage at TheCall Sacramento event repeatedly sounded the alarm on the destructive path that they say America is heading down and highlighted the need for Christians to rise up and pray for God to turn the country back to Him.
On August 22, 2010, on the feast of the Synaxis of the Saints of Solovki, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia served Divine Liturgy in the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Solovki Stavropegic Monastery.
Hieromonk Seraphim (Rose)
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 26
The Apocalypse describes these events in a series of visions: some bright and positive, relating to the fulfillment of God's justice and the salvation of His chosen ones; and some dark and negative, relating to the terrible plagues that will come on earth for the sins of mankind. Sometimes we today emphasize the dark and negative side, seeing the increase of evil around us; but that comes from our faintheartedness and worldliness—we must look at the whole picture.
And the Halki Seminary? It still remains closed. There is nothing to prevent its reopening tomorrow. It would be best to reopen it immediately. When it is opened, Turkey will gain the backing of its 300,000 Orthodox citizens