August 13, 2020 Old Testament Saints of August: The Holy Maccabees and the Holy Prophet Micah Old Testament saints? Yes! God created saints, holy men and women, long before the coming of Christ, and “martyrs before the Martyrs” as our…
August 1, 2020 For 47 Years He Lived in Exploits of Asceticism, Silence, and Seclusion This is how Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh described the exploits of Saint Seraphim of Sarov: “Saint Seraphim lost everything willingly; he abandoned his home,…
July 24, 2020 Saint Juliania of Alšany On July 6, the Belarusian Orthodox Church celebrated the memory of the Belarusian princess who died for an unknown reason at the age of…
July 23, 2020 The Story of the Holy Prophet Elijah – Part Two So, now began the great confrontation between Elijah and the prophets of Baal, between truth and falsehood, between God and paganism. Elijah said, Take…
July 22, 2020 The Story of the Holy Prophet Elijah August 2 (July 20) is the feast of the Prophet Elijah. This is a wonderful story – of how God’s faithful prophet stood up…
July 20, 2020 Mother Maria of Paris: Saint of the Open Door “No amount of thought will ever result in any greater formulation than the three words, ‘Love one another,’ so long as it is love…
July 19, 2020 15 Quotations of St. Ambrose of Optina 1. Why does a person become bad? Because he forgets that God is above him. 2. You have to pay attention to your inner…
July 18, 2020 Life Principles of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Deeds and letters are those things that in the best possible way show what kind of person someone is. The letters of Grand Duchess Elizabeth reveal…
July 17, 2020 The Royal Martyrs in Their Own Words and through the Words of Those Who Knew Them In 1905, twelve years before Emperor Nicholas II’s abdication and three years from his own repose, St. John of Kronstadt, who had served as confessor…
July 9, 2020 “My Daughter Was Dying in My Arms, I Asked St. Luke to Help” – a Real Happening in a Moscow Hospital At 9 months, my daughter got whooping cough. And a month later, during Christmas days, health complications appeared. I called an ambulance – a…
July 8, 2020 Martyr Alban of Britain On July 5 the Church celebrates the memory of the Holy Martyr Alban of Verulamium. St. Alban has not been very well known to…
July 7, 2020 Wonders of Saint John of Shanghai Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco occupies a special place in my life. Despite the fact that I am not called his name,…
