August 23, 2018 By the Prayers of St. Elisabeth: a True Story of the Saint’s Help I want to share how Grand Duchess Elisabeth has helped me in guiding me to Orthodoxy and strengthening my faith. As a divorced single…
August 20, 2018 15 Quotations of Spiritual Guidance by St. Nicodemus the Hagiorite 1. God is the perfect good that we must love; sin is the utter evil that we must abhor and disdain. God is the…
August 13, 2018 St. Benjamin of Petrograd, a New Martyr and the Enemy of the Communist Authorities Today the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of one of the early stars in the pleiades of new martyrs and confessors of the…
August 9, 2018 A Personal Story about the Miraculous Help of St. Herman of Alaska Some time ago, in the 1990s, our parish invited a local “tree surgeon,” Leo M., to cut down a couple of dead trees in…
August 7, 2018 St. Seraphim of Sarov: Why Did Even that Holy Man Need Asceticism? Saint Seraphim of Sarov is one of the pillars of the Orthodox faith in the Russian lands. Most Orthodox believers know his biography. We…
August 1, 2018 Personal Stories about the Modern Day Miracles of St. Seraphim of Sarov Vladimir S. “Now see, young man, that you don’t let me down.” In August of 2007, my wife and I took a tour of…
July 26, 2018 St. Yakov Netsvetov, the Enlightener and Baptizer of the Native Peoples of Alaska Today, July 26th, is the feast day of St. Yakov/Jacob Netsvetov, the Enlightener and Baptizer of the Native Peoples of Alaska. His story is…
July 19, 2018 10 Quotes of Guidance from St. Ambrose of Optina 1. Life will become peaceful and successful only when we will stop being forgetful and stop forgetting God, our Creator and Savior and the…
July 19, 2018 Who Was Grand Duchess Elisabeth and How She Appeared to Be a Saint? One of the brightest stars in the celestial array of Russia’s New Martyrs is holy Grand Duchess Elisabeth. A convert to Orthodoxy, she outshone…
July 17, 2018 Young Royal Martyrs: Who Were the Children of Tsar Nicholas II In 1917 Metropolitan Macarius of Moscow saw in a vision the Saviour speaking to Tsar Nicholas: “You see,” said the Lord, “two cups in…
July 12, 2018 Final Chapter: The Last Meeting of Peter and Paul before Their Martyrdom (Ref. Romans 8:36-37) The Holy and Supreme Apostles Peter and Paul had a full of dangers, adventures, sorrows and persecutions life in Christ….
July 10, 2018 The True Examples of Reconciliation What does the memory of the Apostles – Saints Peter and Paul in particular – teach us for our everyday lives? Most of us…
