Rating: 9.6|Votes: 28
For us, a monastery should represent the best of Christian life: love of God, love of family/brotherhood, love of friend and stranger, hospitality to all, joy, delight, and above all, life in abundance through Our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Rating: 8.7|Votes: 7
The church will serve in the Bulgarian language but be under the jurisdiction of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
Monk Sophronios (Copan)
Rating: 9|Votes: 52
They live in isolated villages, often referred to as “enclaves”—enclaves of Orthodox Christianity, of Christ, of the Church, amidst a chaotic world that surrounds them on all sides, putting ever more pressure on them to leave forever.
Archimandrite Touma Bitar
Rating: 6.7|Votes: 35
Among these crises, two have restricted the Church's movement, distorted her, created within her an abhorrent duplicity and to a significant degree hindered her from existing within the sphere of living spiritual theology and preaching the Gospel throughout the world. By this I am referring to the crisis of racism and the crisis of Constantinople.
Deacon Stefan Mindea
Rating: 9.5|Votes: 85
After several days and nights of unceasing prayer we had my Christian patient anointed with holy chrism, after which I came into the operating room, praying and wholeheartedly relying on the will of God. It was like obedience for me—I was praying whilst performing surgery!