July 7, 2020 The Seal of the Prophets The importance of John the Baptizer may be gauged by the amount of paint and ink the Church spends on him. His portrait is…
July 2, 2020 Troparion and Kontakion to St. Alypius of Kiev Caves Troparion to St. Alypius You depicted the images of saints on tablets / as the artful painter, O all-praiseworthy Alypius, / you wrote the…
June 29, 2020 Translation of the Rilics of St. Theophan, the Recluse of Vysha The holy relics of St. Theophan the Recluse were secretly exhumed in 1973 on the territory of the Shatzk psychiatric hospital located in the buildings of…
June 21, 2020 All Saints of Russia and America The present feast is an extension, or a prolongation of that one, with the exception that today we concentrate our attention and praise on…
June 17, 2020 Saint Of Travellers St. Botolph (also Botulf) is one of the most venerated saints in Eastern England and one of the greatest English missionaries in the 7th…
June 16, 2020 The Relics Of The Saints One element of the practice of the Orthodox Church that is particularly troubling to many of those who are outside, particularly in contemporary Western…
June 14, 2020 Lives of Saints: the Evolution of the Genre This Sunday, the Church celebrates the memory of All Saints. I personally used to believe for a long time that saints weren’t unlike fairytale…
June 11, 2020 15 Quotations from Saint Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) Physical fast helps us to repent and be saved, because, as we have already seen, gluttony is the mother of all other passions and…
June 3, 2020 Inexhaustible Interest in Life: Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Queen Helena We had a discussion with friends over tea the other day about how interesting it is to be alive. This interest – not quite…
June 3, 2020 Schemamonk George from the Old Russikon, a Disciple of Elder Joseph the Hesychast Schemamonk George was a little-known ascetic, laboring in asceticism on Mt. Athos for twenty years. He was a disciple of the great Elder Joseph…
May 23, 2020 Saint Germanus of Auxerre Christians commemorate St. Germanus of Auxerre, a saint from ancient Gaul, on July 31. By decree of the Synod of the Russian Church in…
May 20, 2020 One of the Thirteen: St. David of Garejeli It happened in the sixth century. A group of Syrian monks came to Georgia for missionary purposes. Georgia had been an Orthodox country for…
