August 23, 2020 Closer than My Own Father: Saint Paisios and His Spiritual Children The path to Athos is open to men only. But in Greece there is a women’s monastery where they live according to strict Athonite rules and…
August 22, 2020 We Distance the Guardian Angel from Ourselves because of Our Sins (Homily of Holy Hegumen Anastasius) The Lord is so merciful to us, brethren, that He gives to each of us, at the time of…
August 22, 2020 Convent’s Stories: About Holy Communion Archpriest Andrew Lemeshonok narrates: – Many years ago, in the 2nd city hospital, I gave Communion to the sick. And I was very tormented…
August 21, 2020 Saint Paisios of Mount Athos: God’s Wisdom and the Environment Ah, what beauty has God created by His single word! What harmony, what diversity! Wherever you look, you can see God’s wisdom and majesty…
August 21, 2020 Why Are There So Many Curses and Cruelties In The Psalms? The Old Testament is not the “good” part of the Holy Scriptures: the Fall, the Flood, captivity, executions, idolatry, and lots and lots of…
August 20, 2020 History of the Feast of Transfiguration On August 19, the Church celebrates the Transfiguration of the Lord. The event described in all the Gospel stories, except for the Gospel of…
August 20, 2020 Tenderness Icon of The Mother of God The Seraphim-Diveyevo “Tenderness” Icon of The Mother of God belonged to Saint Seraphim of Sarov and was his cell icon, he called it “Joy…
August 19, 2020 Transfiguration of the Lord: the Joy that the Three Apostles Experienced Before His glorious Transfiguration, the Lord spoke to His disciples about His forthcoming suffering on the cross, and about the necessity for everyone to…
August 18, 2020 Should Christians Ever Use Anti-Depressant Medicines? Are Christians allowed to take psychiatric medicines? Because many maintain that anxiety, depression, melancholy and, in general, psychiatric disorders of the soul are healed…
August 18, 2020 Why was Elijah the Prophet with the Lord during the Transfiguration? Elijah is one of the most revered prophets in the Russian Church. But unlike Isaiah, Jeremiah or Daniel, he left us no books or…
August 18, 2020 The Gospel about Money Why are the money changers robbers? And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in…
August 17, 2020 13 Rules of Life of Saint Isaac the Syrian Here is the wisdom of the great Christian ascetic writer who lived in the seventh century. At the end of his life the saint…
