March 24, 2022 1516 5 How to Distinguish True Elders and Prophets from False Ones We have written extensively about the 20th-century elders who have lived lives of piety and holiness. We take heart in their gift of the…
March 23, 2022 69 0 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 48 Part 47 Evening at St Gregory Monastery The shower was opposite our room door. Suddenly Igor and I dropped our backpacks near the beds…
March 11, 2022 417 0 Illumination in Church. Part 2 Light has unique symbolic meaning in worship and so do all the illumination tools used in church. In our previous article, we discussed candle…
March 6, 2022 457 1 Matrona the Barefoot. Blessed Matrona of St Petersburg? Hundreds of pilgrims come every day to venerate the relics of the blessed Matrona of Moscow resting in the Intercession Monastery of Moscow. However,…
February 3, 2022 148 0 The Genius Singer Galina Vishnevskaya and Her Lifelong Relationship with God Galina Vishnevskaya, a renowned opera singer and recitalist of the Moscow Bolshoi, would have been 95 on 25 October 2021. She became a star…
November 16, 2021 910 2 The Departure of Two Famous Russians — a Writer and an Archpriest For most Orthodox believers, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Saint John of Kronstadt are familiar names. The former is known for his incisive novels exploring every…
November 14, 2021 684 1 How Individuals and Nations Become Demonically Possessed In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit The event we remember today is shocking—the casting out of demons from…
October 20, 2021 97 0 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 27 Part 26 Koutloumousiou Monastery and Cats (Continued) After a long wait, no one came to talk to us, and Cyril went to the arkhondarik…
October 7, 2021 3100 0 Three Icons of Famous Astronaut Alexey Leonov: First One Was Taken Away, Second Went on a Space Mission, Third He Painted Himself To people with even a limited knowledge of space history, Alexey Leonov does not need an introduction. He went on the first spacewalk in…
July 31, 2021 649 4 Holy Fathers about Repentance Venerable Isaac the Syrian What is repentance? It is leaving one’s past and regretting it. Repentance is the door of mercy opening to those…