January 27, 2022 Is There a Remedy for Other Peoples’ Passions? — Your Holiness, what line of behaviour would you recommend to those living under the same roof with an individual possessed by a…
January 26, 2022 Some of the Rarest Materials and Methods of Creating Sacred Images Today when we see carved icons made of wood or ivory, as well as obsidian or stone icons, we consider them unusual. But if…
January 26, 2022 What Can the Fall of Jerusalem Teach Us? The scripture teaches us about multiple historical events. One of them leaves us a poignant lesson in both politics and religion. I am referring…
January 25, 2022 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 40 Part 39 Focus of View and St Paul of Xeropotamou Nicholas respectfully hung my belt over the back of a chair and closed his…
January 24, 2022 Why Was Eating Pork Forbidden in the Old Testament? It is not just pork that the Old Testament forbids eating. The book of Leviticus contains a list of so-called unclean animals that should…
January 23, 2022 Monastic Headdress: Klobuk Klobuk (Turk kalpak – hat) is the everyday headdress of monastics and bishops, also used for celebrating certain divine services. Klobuk’s equivalents in the…
January 22, 2022 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 39 Part 38 The Shower And The Belt Reaching the end of the corridor (it was only about a meter wide near our cell) I…
January 21, 2022 Blessed Heaven: A Studio “Lending Wings” to Wounded Souls St Elisabeth Convent is a place not only of prayer, but also of service to people that modern society tends to forget. For many…
January 20, 2022 Vasnetsov’s Murals at Kiev’s Saint Vladimir Cathedral — Appealing to Every Heart Victor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov rightfully earned himself a prominent place among the great Russian religious painters. At the height of his artistic career, the visual…
January 19, 2022 Trinity at the Jordan River. What Was God’s Message to Us? We are connected with God, kin to God, and lonely without God One day we were brought to church and baptized. Some of us…
January 18, 2022 Degrees of Acceptance of Theological Statements by the Church The church historian V. Bolotov proposed a system with 4 stages of acceptance of a particular theological idea or statement by the entire Church,…
January 18, 2022 The Humble Priest Vasily Who Drove Out Demons and Communed a Woman Taken for Dead Father Vasily Borin (1917 – 1994) was a priest of great calibre, a model of unshakeable faith and exceptional humility. Only great ascetics receive…
