August 8, 2020 8 Facts about the Council of Chalcedon The Church commemorated the Holy Fathers of the Fourth Ecumenical Council on June 29. This Council was the greatest event in the history of…
August 7, 2020 Saint Porphyrios the Kapsokalyvite: Do Exorcism Wisely One day, a priest came to Elder Porphyrios. He wanted an answer to a question that had been bugging him for a long time….
August 6, 2020 Why Do Priests Crave for Luxury? How do we explain the craving for luxury and its justification in the Church? It is not uncommon, right? Well, we may all agree…
August 5, 2020 Anathema: the Excommunication from the Church This article is devoted to anathema – the excommunication from the Church of a person or groups of persons and the prohibition for them…
August 3, 2020 Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnitsa: The Air of Heaven and the Air of Hell The man who has embraced the Kingdom of God radiates holy thoughts that come from God. The role of a Christian in the world…
August 2, 2020 How To Get Rid Of Depression? Q: After a series of tragic events in my life (loss of relatives whom I loved very much), failures in my personal life, the…
August 1, 2020 “You Are Never Satisfied”: Jesus on Whimsical Humanity Whimsical people are never happy. Even God doesn’t suit them. It seems that any argument we make cannot break through the wall of skepticism…
August 1, 2020 For 47 Years He Lived in Exploits of Asceticism, Silence, and Seclusion This is how Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh described the exploits of Saint Seraphim of Sarov: “Saint Seraphim lost everything willingly; he abandoned his home,…
July 31, 2020 900 Days of Faith This church in St. Petersburg is called “Siege Church”, because it was built in the early 21st century in memory of the city residents…
July 30, 2020 Svyatogorsk Icon of the Mother of God During the reign of John the Terrible in 1563, a native of Voronichi, a suburb of Pskov, a fifteen-year-old shepherd Timothy saw a Tenderness…
July 29, 2020 Is the Origin of the World a Miracle or a Natural Process? – the Holy Fathers Explain The difference between the biblical and evolutionary narratives of the origin of the world is obvious for most people. However, not everyone thinks why…
July 28, 2020 “Give Her the Communion before She Comes Out of the Coma!” – the Wonderful Story of a Priest from a Hospital Church For fifteen years I served in the church at the city clinical hospital No. 70 in Novogireevo. There were a lot of needs, and…
