The Feast of the Holy Archangel Michael and the Bodiless Powers

St. Sergius Orthodox Church in Sargodha, Pakistan

Fr. Joseph Farooq

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Churches and Monasteries

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The Feast of the Holy Archangel Michael and the Bodiless Powers

St. Sergius Orthodox Church in Sargodha, Pakistan

Fr. Joseph Farooq

It was a large gathering—almost 110 orthodox faithful and forty Catechumens joyfully participated in the celebration. This day is much blessed and honored by the orthodox faithful in Pakistan because the ROCOR Mission was named, “St. Michael the Archangel Orthodox Mission in Pakistan.”

Spiritual Wisdom from St. Nectarios of Aegina

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Spiritual Wisdom from St. Nectarios of Aegina

He who does not know himself does not know God, either. And he who does not know God does not know the truth and the nature of things in general... He who does not know himself continually sins against God and continually moves farther away from Him.

Holy Fathers Seiriol and Cybi of Anglesey in Wales

Commemorated February 1/14 (St.Seiriol); November 8/21 (St. Cybi)

Dmitry Lapa

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Holy Fathers Seiriol and Cybi of Anglesey in Wales

Commemorated February 1/14 (St.Seiriol); November 8/21 (St. Cybi)

Dmitry Lapa

St. Seiriol is one of a great multitude of island saints who led a solitary life in tiny hermits’ cells on small isles off the coasts of Wales, Scotland and Ireland. St. Cybi is along with St. Seiriol one of the most venerated saints in Anglesey.

Feast of St. Archangel Michael

St. John of Kronstadt

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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Feast of St. Archangel Michael

St. John of Kronstadt

Today, dear brethren, we celebrate the glorious feast of the lightning-like Archangel Michael and all the heavenly bodiless powers. On this day let us talk of the boundless world of the angels.

“Amidst This Wonderful Nature, Even a Long Road Seemed to be Short”

Founders Day of St. Tikhon’s Monastery, October 2014

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Church History

“Amidst This Wonderful Nature, Even a Long Road Seemed to be Short”

Founders Day of St. Tikhon’s Monastery, October 2014

Like St. Tikhon at the founding of this Holy Monastery, we too live in turbulent times. But this place, this sacred place where Saints have walked, has been an image of stability and a rock of faith, just as its founders were.