June 9, 2018 Apostle Peter: The Conversion of the Fisherman “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Also we have come to believe and know that You are…
June 8, 2018 All Venerable Fathers Who Have Shone Forth on Holy Mount Athos All Venerable Fathers who have shone forth on Holy Mount Athos were commemorated on July 3 at the Russian St. Panteleimon’s Monastery on Mt….
June 8, 2018 Interview with the Author of a Book on St. Nicholas of Japan Eleonora Borisovna Sablina is an historian, teacher, candidate of historical sciences, researcher of Japanese Orthodoxy, and the author of a book on St. Nicholas…
June 6, 2018 Canonization Service of St. Xenia of St. Petersburg She was born about 1730, and as a young woman married an army colonel named Andrei, a handsome and dashing man fond of worldly…
June 4, 2018 St. Peter of Damascus On the Souls of the Saints “Such are the souls of the saints: they love their enemies more than themselves, and in this age and in the age to come…
June 1, 2018 St. Alexis of Moscow The Most Holy Alexis, christened Elevpheri, the son of a Chernigov nobleman, Feodor Biakont, was born in Moscow and was received from the holy…
May 29, 2018 A Short Life Story of New Martyr Vukasin of Klepci Our father among the saints, Vukašin Mandrapa of Klepci, was a Serbian Orthodox Christian from Herzegovina who was martyred by fascists during World War…
May 28, 2018 The Story of the Relics of St. John the Russian and Confessor The Holy Confessor John the Russian was born in Little Russia around 1690, and was raised in piety and love for the Church of…
May 25, 2018 The Life and Legacy of Holy Hierarch Augustine, the Archbishop of Canterbury Together with St. Gregory the Dialogist (Gregory the Great, according to the Western tradition), the Pope of Rome, St. Augustine (also Austin) is venerated…
May 17, 2018 The Wife of St. John of Kronstadt: Elizabeth Constantinovna Sergiev St. John of Kronstadt is one of Orthodoxy’s most popular, most illustrious saints. Many people, however, are unaware that he was a married priest….
May 8, 2018 St. Alexis Toth: the True Defender of Orthodoxy in America Our holy Father Alexis, the defender of the Orthodox Faith and zealous worker in the Lord’s vineyard, was born in Austro-Hungary on March 18,…
May 4, 2018 The Holy New Martyr Archpriest Vasily Martysz The holy New Martyr Archpriest Vasily Martysz was born on February 20, 1874 in Tertyn, in the Hrubieszow region of southeastern Poland. His father…