April 1, 2020 273 0 Saints on the Right Attitude to Illness After the Fall, disease and death haunt mankind. The world has known many epidemics that have claimed the lives of many people. Some of…
March 26, 2020 203 0 The Podkubenskaya Mother of God It was the first time I’d seen such a big icon, almost as tall as a person. It has survived since the 13th century,…
March 25, 2020 242 0 A Few Words about the Image of the Cross The Week of the Cross. Today I tried to count how many images of the cross I met in a certain area of the…
March 19, 2020 444 4 All Creation Rejoiceth in Thee: The Icon of Singing On Sundays during Lent, there is the Liturgy of St. Basil the Great, which differs from the usual Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. One particularly…
March 18, 2020 434 0 The Ascension of Alexander the Great, or A Few Words on the Carvings of the St. Demetrius Cathedral in Vladimir The St. Demetrius Cathedral in Vladimir was built in the late 12th century, during the heyday of the Vladimir Suzdal Principality, which by that time…
March 11, 2020 1034 4 Why an Icon Is Not a Portrait of a Saint The icon always depicts a person: there is not a single icon that is not anthropological in its content. Even Angels are portrayed as…
March 5, 2020 2675 0 The Reverse Perspective in Iconography One of the difficulties in understanding the iconographic image, particularly ancient Russian icons, is the special way of depicting space and objects on it….
March 4, 2020 343 0 Silence Is the Mystery of the Age to Come Silence helps us to immerse ourselves in the tranquility that can be a place for us to face God and ourselves. Saint Theophan the…
February 27, 2020 469 0 Children and the Lent When I was a child, the beginning of the Lent was marked by our going to our village church, where we changed white towels…
February 26, 2020 676 2 Sister Joanna (Reitlinger) One of the last icons painted by Sister Joanna (Julia Reitlinger) was The Walking on Waters, and her whole life was, in fact, such…