January 22, 2021 A Mother’s Prayer Everyone is sure to know the proverb, “A mother’s prayer will raise you from the bottom of the deepest sea.” But how many still…
January 17, 2021 “One Day, Petya Came to the Refectory, Sat Down on a Bench and Cried Avidly.” A Priest Recalls a Story from a Small Cemetery Parish “Wood chips! Firewood!” Everyone knew who it was the moment his slightly trembling voice was heard outside the church refectory doors. Because of his…
December 28, 2020 Masha the Fool: A Touching Story about Selfless Love Masha has died in a fire. It would be more appropriate to call her Maria, since she was already in her sixties, when she…
December 20, 2020 “The Chance of Survival was 5%, when Vladyka Began to Pray”. A True Story from the Life of Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh In the 1990s, a certain charitable organization undertook to transport seriously ill children from the former Soviet Union to English hospitals for bone marrow…
December 5, 2020 God’s Providence Is Inscrutable A story of a monk who prayed about knowing God’s inconceivable ways Instead of humbly bowing before God, inscrutable in His ways and actions,…
November 30, 2020 Officer’s Conversion I once knew a family with a very pious mother and a young son who was an officer. While in service, the young man…
November 25, 2020 “Tell Me, Sister… Who Is Better – God or the Devil?” A Striking Episode with a Drunken Man at a Bus Stop It happened in the mid-1990s, during my visit to Kiev from Jerusalem, where I live permanently. With a friend we visited the Kitaevsky monastery…
November 21, 2020 Australian Scientist Discovers Greek Orthodoxy “My daughter was the first child who I christened as a Greek Orthodox priest,” says Father Jeremy. South Australian scientist Jeremy Krieg was born…
November 19, 2020 The Miracle in Stepurino: the Cross Raised from the Ground Stepurino is a small village in the Tver region. It has a rather ancient history, mostly connected with the wooden church of Florus and…
November 4, 2020 “Grandma, What Do I Need an Icon for?” A Story about Help from the Most Holy Theotokos My grandmother gave me a small icon of the Most Holy Theotokos for graduation. She said that this old icon had saved her loved…
October 29, 2020 A High-Tech Amulet or “Why Do We Wear a Cross around Our Neck?” Hotel staff and residents of resort areas often distinguish our tourists at first sight, notably, not by our behavior, cultural standards, language knowledge or…
September 26, 2020 It is not a Monastery or Scholarship that Saves a Person Some Christians think that for a person to be saved, one must either join a monastery or study the Divine law top to bottom….
