Rating: 10|Votes: 23

Participants in the Eternal Pascha

The Memory of the Optina Brothers Killed on Pascha in 1993

Olga Rozhneva

They were God’s chosen ones. To die for Christ is an honor that must be earned.

Rating: 9.8|Votes: 5

Exhibition on New Martyrs and Confessors of Russian Church opens in Paris

A multimedia exhibition, “The New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church,” opened yesterday at the Russian Orthodox Spiritual and Cultural Center in Paris.

Rating: 10|Votes: 11

Two Paschal Celebrations in Prison

Vitaly Chekhranov

This was the most difficult Pascha of the four that I had celebrated during my imprisonment from 1923 to 1926.

Rating: 8.9|Votes: 8

Optina Monastery celebrates memorial for 1993 Paschal Martyrs at their graves (+ VIDEO)

On holy Pascha, the feast of the Resurrection of Christ, a memorial service was celebrated in the chapel of the Resurrection of Christ in Optina Monastery, where Hieromonk Vasily (Roslyakov), Monk Trophim (Tatarinov), and Monk Ferapont (Pushkarev), who were martyred in the monastery on Pascha in 1993, are buried.

Rating: 9.9|Votes: 23

A Pascha of Beauty – In a Soviet Prison – 1928

Fr. Stephen Freeman

This letter should become a classic of Orthodox writing and witness to the faith that sustained so many and is today being resurrected in so many places. The triumph of the Resurrection so transcends his prison cell it’s a wonder that the walls remained.