St. Seraphim! How much this name means to the Russian heart. I don’t know if you’ll find an Orthodox person in Rus’ on whom at the mere mention of this name you won’t see the furrows disappear from the brow, the bent gait straightened, and the eyes liven up with inner light and warmth. What is the secret to this all-encompassing veneration of this God-pleaser?
The sculpture was installed earlier this month and will soon be blessed by Sevastopol priests.
New Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky), Archbishop of Verey
The Edict of Milan is the powers that be openly bowing down before the truth, the state bowing down before the Church, earth before Heaven, and royalty before the priesthood.
Ariel David
Unusual slab uncovered in 3,100-year-old Beth Shemesh temple recalls biblical ‘large stone’ on which the ark once rested, suggesting kernels of history in the Bible are much older than thought
A. Vedernikov
The schism between the Russian and Polish Churches continued for twenty-four years, ending when the Polish Church offered its repentance to the Russian Church and sought to heal the existing wound, though the Patriarchate of Constantinople continued in its errors.