November 30, 2020 Fasting under Crisis Conditions — Vladyka, people today are already deprived of their everyday joys, while fasting seems to be taking away the last remaining of them. How…
November 30, 2020 Officer’s Conversion I once knew a family with a very pious mother and a young son who was an officer. While in service, the young man…
November 29, 2020 The Life in Christ Is a Life of Continually Remembering that I Am the Poor and Needy One Reading the Parable of the Good Samaritan Almost every contemporary biblical commentary interprets the parable of the Good Samaritan as moral exhortation. But this…
November 28, 2020 Walking on the Water: How Can We Believe in the Impossible? How can modern man believe in God and trust in Him, how can we feel what goes beyond the boundaries of the five human…
November 28, 2020 15 Quotes by Venerable Justin (Popović) 1. Sins are earthquakes that overturn minds, souls and hearts, forming in them stony gorges, crevasses and rocks. They leave us wandering through these…
November 27, 2020 Why Is the Gospel of John the Only Book that Talks about the Resurrection of Lazarus? Part 1 John’s intent was not just to report the events, but to convey his key message: Jesus Christ is not just a teacher,…
November 27, 2020 How Did Icon Painting Workshops (Artels) Work in Russia? The 17th century was a time when churches were actively built and revived in the Russian state, resulting in growing number of craft societies,…
November 26, 2020 Mysteries of the Book of John The Book of John stands out among the other gospels of the Bible in many ways. Only in this gospel do we find accounts…
November 25, 2020 “Tell Me, Sister… Who Is Better – God or the Devil?” A Striking Episode with a Drunken Man at a Bus Stop It happened in the mid-1990s, during my visit to Kiev from Jerusalem, where I live permanently. With a friend we visited the Kitaevsky monastery…
November 25, 2020 On Gratitude, Modern Utopianism, and the Cross of Christ The Holy Fathers teach us that in order to conquer any given passion, we must strive to cultivate the opposing virtue. If we are…
November 25, 2020 The Lay Sisters of Saint Elisabeth Convent In this video the lay sisters of Saint Elisabeth Convent talk about their ministry and how much it changed their lives.
November 24, 2020 Why Did Saint John Chrysostom Call to Strike the Blasphemers? Would a Christian be justified in confronting a blasphemer with physical force, if all other means of calling him to reason fail? This question…
