December 17, 2020 Saint Barbara — the Patron Saint of Artillery Saint Barbara, the Holy Martyr (3d – early 4th century) Commemorated on 17 (4) December. Does artillery, ‘the God of War’, have a patron saint…
December 11, 2020 St Vincent of Lérins and His Teachings Venerable Vincent of Lérins is a famous saint, who is Western by birth, but rather Eastern by spirit. In 2017, the Holy Synod of…
December 9, 2020 Do Not Disfigure the Divine Image or How a Saint Healed Other Saint’s Mother Venerable Peter the Hermit of Galatia lived during the IV-V century. He was able to perform miracles, just as Christ did, so that even…
December 2, 2020 Elder Porphyrios of Kafsokalivia: Three Examples of His Exceptional Perceptiveness Spiritual writer Pavle Rak shares his memories of the elder whom he and his family knew in person. Let me start with a story…
November 26, 2020 “Love is Above Fasting!” Simple Stories with St Tikhon of Zadonsk During his long life, Saint Tikhon wrote many spiritual works. The present generation of believers continue to turn to them for consolation, admonition, and…
November 22, 2020 “Do You Want to See an Angel?” St. Nektarios and His Instructions November 9/22 we remember St. Nektarios of Aegina, a modern ascetic and wonderworker. His life is amazing: the Lord manifested in a visible and…
October 30, 2020 Saint Macrina, the Fourth Great Cappadocian? Saint Macrina is a well-known ascetic, sister of Saints Gregory of Nyssa and Basil the Great, two of the three great Cappadocian church fathers….
October 20, 2020 St Euphemia the All-Praised Appearing to Elder Paisios We bring to the attention of our readers a small episode from the life of Elder Paisios, which took place on February 27, 1974….
October 13, 2020 Saint Silouan the Athonite and His Experience of Confronting Demonic Powers Quite a lot has been said about him, and I’m unlikely to write something new here. When you read the lives or works of…
October 12, 2020 Saint Edwin of Northumbria, King and Martyr, and Saint Ethelburgh, Queen and Abbess of Lyminge By the time of the repose of St. Augustine of Canterbury in 604 there was only one kingdom in the whole of England that…
October 7, 2020 Joshua as a Prototype of Jesus Christ On September 1, according to the Julian calendar, the Church celebrated the memory of the Old Testament saint Joshua. There is a separate book…
October 5, 2020 Elder Paisios’ Seven Tangerines It was in February 1988. It was very cold in Karyes. It was high above sea level. The humidity usually hampered our movements. But…
