Christian Life Begins Close to Home St Alexis Mechev died in Moscow on 22 June 1923—9 June according to the Old Calendar. During his...

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The Bell That Rang for an Empty Church Moscow at the end of the nineteenth century was a city caught between faith and upheaval....

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Before she founded the Martha and Mary Convent and gave her life as a martyr, St Elisabeth spent more than twenty years beside Grand...

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What the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent Reveals to Us On the fourth Sunday of Great Lent, the Orthodox Church commemorates Saint John of...

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We often mistake repentance for self-punishment. St Nectarios of Aegina shows why despair over our sins can be a sign not of humility, but...

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Saints are often imagined as ascetics in the desert or fiery preachers on street corners. They are rarely pictured as high-ranking Roman officials—yet such...

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On 8 October (25 September), the Church commemorates the repose of Saint Sergius, Abbot of Radonezh, wonderworker of all Rus’. His veneration reaches back...

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Saint Seraphim of Sarov was the first saint canonised in the twentieth century. That fact itself carries a spiritual hint, a sign pointing to...

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Where would you expect to encounter a saint? In a monastery, perhaps? On an icon? Certainly—in church, in quiet prayer, in places hallowed by...

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That summer, I was alone in our village house while my husband was constantly away on business trips. Though our village was nearly deserted—only...

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