March 29, 2021 Easter Basket Charity Sale: What Is It and Why Do We Need It Now? The beginning of the Great Lent is the time we dedicate to prayer, and importantly, to charity. Much of the charitable work at our…
March 29, 2021 3 Myths about Saint Patrick Of the many colourful and boisterous feasts celebrated throughout the year, there is one that many Americans and Europeans will know without looking in…
March 28, 2021 Rev. Agapitos The Unmercenary Healer On this day the Church commemorate Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of the Kiev Caves Lavra. When abba Anthony of the Caves had become…
March 28, 2021 God Hears The Widows’ Tears the Soonest We often say that the Lord protects widows and orphans. This is the absolute truth, for the Lord truly is their protector and sometimes…
March 27, 2021 “The Purpose of Prayer Is to Learn to Humbly Surrender Oneself to the Will of God.” Instructions of Elder John (Krestiankin) God and Man The world is ruled only by the Providence of God, and this is where lies a believer’s salvation and his power…
March 27, 2021 A Modern Story of Miraculous Healing from Cancer in the Kiev Caves Lavra Time flows differently when you leave the hospital having been diagnosed with cervical cancer, knowing that there is no money for the treatment, and that…
March 26, 2021 Singing the Psalms in Lent: A Little Handbook of Twenty Sections 1. I wrote this “little handbook” to assist anyone who would like to pray through the Psalms this Lent (and maybe afterward). Outside of…
March 26, 2021 “Reading” the Murals in the Temple Dmitry Trofimov, head of the Tsargrad creative workshops: Mural painting has its canon just as there is a canon for writing icons. This canon,…
March 24, 2021 What Is Genuine Repentance? Insights from Priest Andrey Tkachev Father Andrey, let me describe a situation experienced by nearly every faithful who confesses regularly and frequently. The penitent recognises a sin and confesses…
March 23, 2021 “A Life-sentenced Prisoner Told Patriarch Kirill that He Had a Small Request for Him” An Extraordinary Occurrence in Butyrka Prison 250 years ago, Empress Catherine the Great issued a decree on the construction of the Butyrskaya Prison Fortress in the North of Moscow. Today…
March 22, 2021 An Icon Means Testimony This Sunday is called “The Triumph of Orthodoxy.” On this day the last major heresy was condemned by the Seventh Ecumenical Council. By that…
March 22, 2021 The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste Anyone wandering about near a freezing cold pond one night near the city of Sebaste in the year 320 would have seen an astounding…
