Prayers to Read During the Current Coronavirus Pandemic

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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Prayers to Read During the Current Coronavirus Pandemic

Abbot Parthenios of St. Paul’s Monastery on Mt. Athos spoke one day at trapeza about a prayer against the coronavirus that he reads at the end of his prayer rule.

Christmas Stories from a Urals Monastery

Olga Rozhneva

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Orthodoxy Around the World

Christmas Stories from a Urals Monastery

Olga Rozhneva

That’s how Misha—thin and lanky, with faded eyes and an unhealthy pallor—wound up in the monastery. He looked around the remote monastery in horror, and in his eyes lurked an unchildlike melancholy: He didn’t have his beloved computer here.

Caroling Kids

Vladimir Krupin

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Caroling Kids

Vladimir Krupin

“So why did you come here, only for candies? You’re going out on Christmas, you’re supposed to carry the good tidings of the birth of the Son of God! That’s what Christmas caroling is all about!"

Ringing in the New Year! Bell Ringing—Not a Profession, But a State of Soul

A talk with Bogdan Berezkin, a bell ringing instructor from Belarus

Bogdan Berezkin

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Orthodoxy Around the World

Ringing in the New Year! Bell Ringing—Not a Profession, But a State of Soul

A talk with Bogdan Berezkin, a bell ringing instructor from Belarus

Bogdan Berezkin

We have talked with Bogdan Vladimirovich, a professional musician, a Master of Arts, a graduate of the Minsk State Academy of Music, about bells, the meaning of bell ringing, bellringers and how people become one.

“We have to understand someone else’s pain”

A Talk with Jordanville’s Deacon Andrei Psarev. Part 2

Deacon Andrei Psarev

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Orthodoxy Around the World

“We have to understand someone else’s pain”

A Talk with Jordanville’s Deacon Andrei Psarev. Part 2

Deacon Andrei Psarev

The selfless ministry of the numerous pastors of the Russian Church in the emigration has taken shape in a kind of iconographic image of ministry as expressed in the Russian saying, “for the sake of Christ Jesus and not for a bite of bread.”