Nun Magdalena (Nekrasova)
Rating: 9|Votes: 1
I had already left the house when I met Bishop Mstislav at the door. He was head of the Vologda diocese at the time. When he heard that I had come home for two days he began to forcefully persuade me to go the Central House of Culture, where that evening one anti-religious activist was supposed to be giving a talk. This was the former priest, Chertkov. I had no desire whatsoever to go there, especially since my spiritual father had advised me never to listen to or read all that anti-religious nonsense, which only sullies the soul. But the more I resisted the more decisively the bishop insisted that at least one of us needs to hear one of these presentations and know what methods they are using. Finally, I had to submit.
Rating: 4.2|Votes: 5
Earlier this month, Christopher Warner at the Catholic World Report interviewedArchimandrite Robert Taft, S.J., a Byzantine Catholic priest and professor emeritus of Oriental Liturgy at the Pontifical Oriental Institute, about Catholic-Orthodox relations and the prospects for future unity.
While questions have been raised about his methodology, an Italian researcher’s novel use of test procedures suggests the shroud is indeed 2,000 years old.
Tatiana Kashina
Rating: 7.3|Votes: 3
Some forty miles from the busy commercial center of New York, next to the town of Nanuet, is the convent of Novo Diveevo, a monastery known throughout Orthodox America. Here is an original portrait of St Seraphim of Sarov, painted during his lifetime. People who have seen this portrait say that his gaze seems to pass right through their soul, illuminating its dark corners.
Liudmila Selenskaya
His mother Anna was devout, shrewd and very stern. They respected her and were a little afraid of her in the village. It was believed that all her three sons returned from war thanks to her ardent prayer. There was a loss in every family apart from the Zelenukhins. Grandfather was close to death many times, but miraculously survived.
