Fr. Evan Armatas, John Maddox
Rating: 7.8|Votes: 9
How did the Church arrive at such a season and structure of services? And whether you've been through Lent before or this is going to be your first season, you will see that this is a rather complicated season; there is a lot going on, a number of services you haven't seen. There are new names and phrases for things. Certain spiritual disciplines are highlighted that you may not be aware of, or at least you don't typically them see during the rest of the season.
Rating: 9.3|Votes: 3
Official diplomatic ties have existed between Denmark and Russia for over 520 years, but their shared history goes back much further than that.
Over the past few months, an outbreak of events involving the Russian Orthodox Church has occupied public attention. A series of sensational stories centered on the clergy has evoked a flood of tense conversations in the media regarding the place and role of the Russian Orthodox Church in contemporary society. The situation is continuously becoming more heated, and has already spilled over into open opposition between ecclesiastical and anti-clerical forces.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill
Rating: 7.3|Votes: 3
Before us is an unknown future. Scientists try to ignore the development of events, futurologists describe a distant future, but no one really knows what it will be like, because our Lord is the Lord of history. This historical process is in His hands, and each one of us is a participant.
Tatiana Veselkina
Rating: 9.2|Votes: 11
I stood at one side and marveled at the mosaic shining in the sunlight, the tile-work of the church rising to the sky… St John the Baptist Cathedral in America’s capital was built in the Muscovite-Yaroslavl style of the 17th century, like a carved statuette sitting in the palm of one’s hand. There are only a handful of such churches in Orthodox America. How is it that a church devoted to such a sad event came to be in this intellectual, refined city of Washington?