Rating: 9,5|Votes: 6
For Serbs from around Suva Reka, Pentecost is a very special day, when they have the modest opportunity to see if only briefly their homeland, their native villages and homes--or rather, what is left of them.
Rating: 1,5|Votes: 2
Our inner conviction in the rightness of God’s Word, along with repentance and life in the Church, should give us the most creative foundation for apostleship there is: peace of heart and an attitude towards God, the Church, people, and ourselves that is different from that of the vain world. Peace, love, forgiveness, compassion, empathy, and pain of heart over falsehood and injustice – these qualities of the Christian soul are the opposite of indifference and hatred.
Abba Dorotheos
It is good, O brethren, to sing the words of the holy God-bearers, for they strive everywhere to instruct us in everything which leads to the enlightenment of our souls. From the words we sing on the feast day, we should always come to understand the meaning of the what is being commemorated, whether it be a feast of the Lord, of the holy martyrs, or of the holy Fathers; in a word no matter what saint or blessed commemoration it is.
Dmitry Lapa, Olga Kirianova
Rating: 10|Votes: 5
—Dmitry, the readers of Pravoslavie.ru know you as the translator of a series of articles on the history of Christianity in England and its Orthodox Saints. You are also an independent author of publications about English Orthodoxy. It is less well known that you are a visually handicapped person from childhood and these works are a testimony to the courage and persistence with which you have overcome your handicap. How did your interest in Orthodoxy in England begin?
St. John (Maximovich) of Shanghai and San Francisco
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit have common thought, common will, common actions. What the Father desires, the Son also desires, and the Holy Spirit also desires. This is not so with man. We are in constant disagreement, we have differing desires. Even a small child expresses his own wishes, willfulness, disobedience to his loving parents...
