July 15, 2026 St Elisabeth and Grand Duke Sergei: A Marriage of Faith and Service Before she founded the Martha and Mary Convent and gave her life as a martyr, St Elisabeth spent more than twenty years beside Grand…
April 14, 2026 When Forgiveness Opens the Way Perhaps every priest carries within him a Paschal story—a true one, when all that remains to say is: Christ is risen! Any other words…
July 15, 2025 Athanasius of Kovrov: Devotion to Russian Saints for 35 Years In May of 1935, immediately following the opening of the Moscow Metro, an extraordinary religious procession took place in Stalin’s Moscow. Bishop Athanasius (Sakharov)…
May 20, 2025 A Vessel of Grace: Elder Charalampbos of Mount Athos What is the most powerful way to teach others a life pleasing to God? By example. This is how the spirit of eldership has…
April 8, 2025 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 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 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 “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 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 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 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 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…
