January 21, 2020 Princess Ileana – Mother Alexandra The Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Ellwood City, PA was founded in 1967 by Mother Alexandra (the former Princess Ileana of Romania) whose…
January 16, 2020 Brooklyn Street Renamed in Honor of Orthodox Priest One of the streets in New York (USA) was called “Father Paul Schneirla Way” after Archpriest Paul Schneirla (+ 2014), an Orthodox priest. According…
January 10, 2020 Stephen Said: “Vladyka, All Is Well With Me”, Turned and Became Invisible Death is a mystery. It is our third birthday. I will be honest—a day does not go by when I don’t think about death. But…
December 11, 2019 Graceful Gift of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnitsa “His beautiful face – that of a gray-haired, enlightened elder – looks as if it is illuminated with spiritual peace and joy. Such spiritual…
December 10, 2019 12 Things I Love About Orthodoxy I’ve wanted to write a listicle about the Orthodox Church, my home within Christianity, for quite some time. But, as often happens, I got…
October 14, 2019 Antoine de Saint-Exupery as a Christian It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince Christian…
September 29, 2019 Responsibility for the Creation The beauty of the world around us attests to the beauty of the Divine. A woman recollected that the priest who brought her up…
September 9, 2019 Fyodor Dostoevsky: 25 Basic Rules of Life “To love a man means seeing him as God intended him to be.” Compassion is the most important and, perhaps, the only law of…
July 3, 2019 How a Future Bishop Tried to Finish a Soviet School When I was in my final year at school in the late sixties, they were reluctant to give me the certificate because they knew…
June 16, 2019 Man Rescued From Lightning By a Cross A Penza man remained alive after being struck by lightning thanks to the cross he wore on his neck and to a metal insert…
June 6, 2019 Elder Paisios the Athonite Prescribed This Remedy For All Kinds of Illnesses and Problems Bishop Job (Smakouz) on Elder Paisios and spiritual warfare. Volume 3 of Elder Paisios the Athonite’s works deals with spiritual warfare. We Are Here…
June 5, 2019 Elder Paisios Explains Why We Need Theology Theology is the word of God, which is apprehended by pure, humble and spiritually regenerated souls, and not the beautiful words of the mind,…
