April 8, 2025 426 6 St Mary of Egypt: How Did a Long-time Libertine Suddenly Come to Feel Shame? On Mercy Towards the Fallen What is true repentance? Which feelings does it awaken within us, and what else does the Great Canon teach…
March 25, 2025 517 2 Eldress Anastasia, guardian of Corfu’s sacred Monastery of the Virgin Mary of the Angels (Kyra ton Angelon) One day, while passing by a ruined monastery, a ten-year-old girl heard the call of the Most Holy Theotokos. From that moment, her entire…
December 3, 2024 623 13 Father Nathanael of Pskov-Pechersk Monastery: A Portrait Beyond the Pages of “Everyday Saints” Father Nathanael (Pospelov) became widely known through Metropolitan Tikhon’s (Shevkunov) book Everyday Saints, published in 2011 and translated into many languages. The book portrays…
September 10, 2024 750 4 “Someday You Will Throw Dirt on Me.” I am an Orthodox Christian. Not a good one, though, but I digress. In the past week I’ve been asked by three different people…
July 30, 2024 471 6 The Art of Sacred Music: Inside Archimandrite Matthew’s Choir Room In the hearts of many, the resounding chorales of traditional Russian church singing evoke images of the majestic choir of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. At…
July 17, 2024 585 3 Through Hallucinations and Delirium: What Words Will I Be Repeating on My Deathbed? Survival on the Open Sea In the 1960s, a man named Hannes Lindemann undertook an extraordinary experiment to study human capabilities in the face…
December 19, 2023 102 1 Father Vasily Yermakov — the Grace of the Spirit that Illuminates the World The planet was named in honor of the famous St. Petersburg priest Vasily Ermakov – an unprecedented occurrence among the priests. What was so…
November 24, 2023 629 1 Navigating Life’s Storms: Father Fyodor Konyukhov’s Five Spiritual Signposts Archpriest Fyodor Konyukhov stands as an exceptional figure, a unique individual in our time. His relentless pursuit of extreme travels, placing his life in…
September 12, 2023 1770 9 Elder Mary Magdalene, a hermit from the Sinai Desert One day a group of pilgrims visited the Monastery of Elder Porphyrios Kavsokalivite in Milesi. Among them was a woman from France, a history…
July 18, 2023 540 0 Father Methodius: a Macedonian Turned Most Hospitable Hieromonk on Valaam Island This charismatic man with a southern temperament chose the way of monasticism with the blessing of his honourable grandfather. The wondrous ways of Divine…
