Before she founded the Martha and Mary Convent and gave her life as a martyr, St Elisabeth spent more than twenty years beside Grand...

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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...

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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)...

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What is the most powerful way to teach others a life pleasing to God? By example. This is how the spirit of eldership has...

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On Mercy Towards the Fallen What is true repentance? Which feelings does it awaken within us, and what else does the Great Canon teach...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Survival on the Open Sea In the 1960s, a man named Hannes Lindemann undertook an extraordinary experiment to study human capabilities in the face...

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