February 20, 2020 Blessed Valentina of Minsk: The Light of Faith in Dark Times It is God’s providence that in difficult times there should always be lamps of faith that warm the cold hearts. Most importantly, they should…
February 19, 2020 Secret Angel 2019: You Have Made a Holiday Miracle Possible! Isn’t it common to give presents on holidays? We all make every effort to be ready for the holidays; we choose gifts carefully, hoping…
February 19, 2020 Gurias Nikitin Gurias Nikitin had a rare feeling of plasticity for a medieval painter. He knew how to make figures dynamic, lively and, ultimately, temperamental. The…
February 19, 2020 What Do I Say to the Person Who Is Suffering? First off, show up. Don’t ask permission, just show up. It’s always difficult to know just what to say when a friend or loved…
February 18, 2020 St. Elisabeth Convent’s Mosaic Studio The light of ancient art of Byzantine mosaic has been burning at St. Elisabeth Convent for twenty years now…
February 18, 2020 Saint Paisios of Mount Athos: How Great the Power of Repentance Is! God is very close to us but at the same time is very high. For a person to bend God over to condescend and…
February 18, 2020 15 Quotations of Holy Fathers about Love Saint Basil the Great 1. A fearful man is still a slave, whereas the one who has become perfect in love has already reached…
February 18, 2020 Saint Xenia of Petersburg Feast in our Boarding Home’s Chapel All-night vigil and Divine Liturgy in a boarding home’s chapel in honour of Saint Xenia of Petersburg. Photos by Maxim Chernogolov
February 17, 2020 The Divnogorskaya Sicilian Icon of the Mother of God Stops Deadly Epidemic The Divnogorskaya Sicilian Icon of the Mother of God was named after the place of its original location and its glorification in the Holy…
February 17, 2020 A Monk from a Samurai Family Hierodeacon Nikolai (Ono) comes from an old family of priests of the Japanese Orthodox Church. His great-great grandfather’s name—Priest John Ono—is often mentioned in…
February 16, 2020 They Want Me To Go To Church Not So Much For My Sake As For Their Sake A child once told me, “Father, I would like to go to church in the morning. I really want to go.” “Great,” I tell…
February 15, 2020 St. Nicholas of Japan on Buddhism Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Archbishop Nicholas (Kasatkin; 1836-1912), an outstanding missionary to Japan where he labored for over fifty years, was the founder of the Japanese…
