Jonathan Dunne
I work with word connections. Language is like the environment – there is much more to it than may initially appear to be the case.
Dr. Hannu Pöyhönen
This pandemic has revealed the smallness and superficiality of our faith.
The Metropolitan and several clerics were earlier detained after celebrating Liturgy on the feast of Palm Sunday at a monastery in Zlatica, a suburb of the capital city of Podgorica.
Due to the coronavirus quarantine measures, hospitals in Ukraine are facing a shortage of donor blood. In an effort to overcome this situation, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is calling on its faithful to donate blood and for those who have fully recovered from coronavirus infections to donate plasma.
Bishop Pitirim (Tvorogov)
The pestilence began on Great Friday. Our best clergymen got sick, some seriously. Vladyka Paramon [the abbot of the Lavra] also got sick; I got sick, as well as the Lavra elders and one of ours in the Academy.