Dmitry Zlodorev
During the recent Great Lent, one of the most senior protodeacons of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia in the Unites States, Fr Joseph Jarostchuk, who last year celebrated his 50th anniversary of clerical service, contracted the coronavirus and was even preparing for death.
Reflecting on the causes of the disaster that has visited us, we should preserve Christian sanity, discretion and good sense. True, sorrows that often visit individuals and whole nations sometimes may be a result of human communities’ rejection of God’s protection.
Tatiana Oganyan
On July 25, our Church bid farewell to an epochal man, a metropolitan who could easily kneel in the middle of a working day just to teach humility to his employees and spiritual children—Vladyka Evlogy (Smirnov). The newly-departed is here remembered by Matushka Tatiana Oganyan, the choir director of the Episcopal Choir of the Holy Dormition Cathedral of the Vladimir Metropolia.
Olga Rozhneva, Metropolitan Vladimir (Samokhin)
To understand the will of God is the primary aim in the life of every Christian. I know by experience that it is not until many years later that the hidden meaning of the events you providentially had to go through is revealed to you.
Archpriest Vladislav Tsypin
The fifteen hundred year history of the Hagia Sophia has recently seen the beginning of a new era. In the distant past the conversion of it from an Orthodox cathedral into a mosque also coincided with the beginning of a new era.