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…
January 17, 2022 Miracles That Anyone Can “Touch” Malachi is the last Old Testament prophet, with the exception of St John the Forerunner. His prophetic ministry unfolds after the restoration of the…
January 16, 2022 What Was the Real Age of Christ? The works of the Hieromartyr Irenaeus of Lyons contain a statement according to which Christ died not at the age of 33, as it…
January 15, 2022 Venerable Seraphim of Sarov. Acquiring the Spirit St Seraphim is one of the most revered Russian saints. Everyone knows that we should imitate saints and learn from them. What is it…
January 14, 2022 The Evolution of the Church Censer The tradition of burning incense in church during worship, adopted from the times of the Old Testament, has been carefully preserved by the Orthodox…
January 13, 2022 A Silent Confession on the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ: a True Story It was the feast of the Circumcision of Christ and Saint Basil the Great. Father Sergius had just served the festive liturgy at church…
