Olga Rozhneva
Rating: 8,3|Votes: 10
What will help us become stronger in sorrows? How can we prevent them? What can we do if grief over our children overcomes us?
Hieroschemamonk Julian (Lazar), George Kryshnyan
Rating: 8,5|Votes: 6
He has a pure heart, which reflects the heavens like a mirror, thanks to the goodness of his heart. When he is joyful his entire face begins to radiate. It is a great joy to find oneself nearby him then, because a feeling arises as if you are sitting on your knees by a grandfather with a snow-white beard, looking with love upon the inner child of your soul.
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
How can we celebrate the Dormition? As a day of death? Only if we remember two things: First, that for us who remain on earth, death is the bitter, painful separation from our loved ones. But for the one who dies, death, dormition (falling asleep) is a triumphant, magnificent meeting of a living soul with the living God.
Priest Pavel Gumerov
Rating: 7,9|Votes: 20
Once a certain priest went to visit the now reposed elder Archpriest Nicholai Guryanov and told him about the sorrows and problems he was having. Fr. Nicholai heard him out and said, “Rejoice!” “What is there to rejoice about?” The priest thought to himself.
Igumen Nikon (Vorobiev)
Rating: 9|Votes: 3
I recalled today these two holy prophets, Moses and Elias, who appeared and conversed with Christ during His Transfiguration, in order to clarify the Orthodox Church’s point of view on the Hindu theory of the transmigration of souls, otherwise known as reincarnation.