Stepanida Vepsina, Vasily Kaleda. “Any Illness is a Cross”, a Frank Talk on Psychiatry

Vasily Kaleda, Stepanida Vepsina

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Orthodoxy Today

Rating: 4.5|Votes: 2

Stepanida Vepsina, Vasily Kaleda. “Any Illness is a Cross”, a Frank Talk on Psychiatry

Vasily Kaleda, Stepanida Vepsina

What is modern psychiatry like? Why are people suffering from mental diseases often treated as lepers? And what should you do if you or any of your relatives become mentally ill?

How Fr. Dmitry Smirnov Convinces Women Not to Have an Abortion, and Ten Questions That Can Keep a Woman From Abortion

Fr. Dimitry Smirnov, Elena Smirnova, Natalia Narishkina

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Suffering Church

Rating: 9.4|Votes: 16

How Fr. Dmitry Smirnov Convinces Women Not to Have an Abortion, and Ten Questions That Can Keep a Woman From Abortion

Fr. Dimitry Smirnov, Elena Smirnova, Natalia Narishkina

“The work of a psychologist with this category of women is the work of eroding growing doubt. A woman has come to register for an abortion; she’s already made a choice, a decision, but she always has remaining doubts—something on the other side of the scale. The work of a psychologist is to uncover these doubts, ‘to give them’ Which way the balance is tipped we cannot know, because the woman has made a decision. But, all the same, you can try to ‘shatter’ a woman’s bad confidence.”

Why do Russians insist on the name “Holy Russia”?

Nicholas Kotar

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Orthodoxy Today

Rating: 5.7|Votes: 7

Why do Russians insist on the name “Holy Russia”?

Nicholas Kotar

A reader of my first attempt at writing a novel noticed that I seemed to be obsessed with the idea of American exceptionalism. He was only partially right. I am, however, a fan of Russian exceptionalism. Now, before you dismiss that outright, it might be useful to consider the history of that strange, elusive idea known as “Holy Russia.”

Confession and Communion: A False Problem

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Rating: 8.8|Votes: 18

Confession and Communion: A False Problem

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

Is it that Confession is obligatory before every Communion or is that you take Communion whenever you want and have Confession whenever you want?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery as a Christian

Archpriest Andrei Ovchinnikov

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Orthodoxy Around the World

Rating: 9.1|Votes: 20

Antoine de Saint-Exupery as a Christian

Archpriest Andrei Ovchinnikov

The Christian truths are woven into many literary works with invisible threads. In order to find the precious pearl of the Gospel truth in the huge field of human thoughts you need to have sharp spiritual sight, a sensitive soul and internal intuition. This path is open for all.