Rating: 9.7|Votes: 24

“Love Your Neighbor, and Then You will Begin to Love Christ”

For the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of Schema-Archimandrite Vitaly (Sidorenko)

Zinovy Chesnokov

His Holiness read the Prayer of Absolution, folded it up and gave it to me to put it in the deceased’s hand. As his thumb moved aside I put the piece of paper in his hand, and his palm closed. By itself!

Rating: 8.7|Votes: 37

Jewish Evangelism: the Lessons of History

Fr. Lawrence Farley

Thinking about the catastrophe that befell Israel in 70 A.D. when the Temple was destroyed and the people of Judea scattered through all the world, I would like to make two points.

Rating: 7.3|Votes: 35

Ethno-phyletism and the Patriarch of Constantinople

Anna Stickles

If Constantinople decides to submit to Porshenko’s wishes and establish an Orthodox church on Ukrainian soil against the wishes of the canonical Church, is not the ecclesiological heresy of ethno-phyletism exactly what will appear? This denies the central Eucharistic mission of the Church.

Rating: 8.3|Votes: 15

Memorial plaque for Royal Martyrs’ participation in glorification of St. Seraphim found in Sarov

Recent excavations at Sarov Monastery, where the great St. Seraphim labored during his lifetime, unearthed a treasure related to both St. Seraphim and the Royal Martyrs.

Rating: 9.8|Votes: 48

“We Will Soon Be Dispersed, They Will Close the Monastery, and They’ll Kill Us All”

In Memory of Abbot Zosima and the New Martyrs of St. Nicholas Monastery

Nadezhda Dar

He dug a cave, cleaned the spring near the mountain and began to live and pray, imitating the ancient monastic fathers.