August 26, 2025 What Saint Seraphim’s Greeting Means—and Why It Matters Today Saint Seraphim of Sarov was the first saint canonised in the twentieth century. That fact itself carries a spiritual hint, a sign pointing to…
August 11, 2025 “Prayer is Your Air Defence”: Trench Lessons from Elder Paisios of Mount Athos Where would you expect to encounter a saint? In a monastery, perhaps? On an icon? Certainly—in church, in quiet prayer, in places hallowed by…
July 15, 2025 Athanasius of Kovrov: Devotion to Russian Saints for 35 Years In May of 1935, immediately following the opening of the Moscow Metro, an extraordinary religious procession took place in Stalin’s Moscow. Bishop Athanasius (Sakharov)…
July 1, 2025 How to Read the Lives of the Saints Without Missing What Matters Most What can we truly know about the men and women who lived more than a thousand years ago and are now numbered among the…
June 19, 2025 Results of Our 2025 Secret Angel & Easter Basket Charity Events This year, on the eve of the Nativity of Our Lord and the bright Feast of His Glorious Resurrection, our Catalog website once again…
June 17, 2025 The Path to Salvation: Quality Over Quantity The question, “How many good deeds are needed to be saved?” has echoed through Christian thought for centuries. The Gospels urge us to perform…
June 2, 2025 “Father Nicholas, Help!” Three Miracles of Saint Nicholas That summer, I was alone in our village house while my husband was constantly away on business trips. Though our village was nearly deserted—only…
May 20, 2025 A Vessel of Grace: Elder Charalampbos of Mount Athos What is the most powerful way to teach others a life pleasing to God? By example. This is how the spirit of eldership has…
May 6, 2025 Easter’s First Witnesses: Why Women’s Testimony Shook the Ancient World The first to learn of the Lord’s Resurrection were “Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them, who…
April 22, 2025 How Do We Know What Christ Prayed in Gethsemane If the Apostles Slept? When Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as…
April 22, 2025 Christ’s Resurrection and Signals from Space One common objection to the credibility of Christ’s Resurrection traces back to the 18th-century Scottish thinker David Hume. Though many who repeat this argument…
April 8, 2025 St Mary of Egypt: How Did a Long-time Libertine Suddenly Come to Feel Shame? On Mercy Towards the Fallen What is true repentance? Which feelings does it awaken within us, and what else does the Great Canon teach…
