August 17, 2021 Camping Out I read a study that says that if you have insomnia, the best thing to do is to go camping for a week. The…
August 16, 2021 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 9 Part 8 Sea, Urchins and Retsina We went to the shore. What looked like sand to us turned out to be fine gravel, but…
August 14, 2021 Fr. Andrew Lemeshonok: “Holiness Is a Whole New Life” Each of us has a heavenly patron praying for us before the throne of God. It takes faith to recognize a saint. Holiness cannot…
August 13, 2021 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 8 Part 7 In Ouranoupoli At 14 o’clock we returned to Thessaloniki airport and met with Georgievich, who had flown in from Moscow. Then we…
August 13, 2021 Things You Wanted to Know about Confession but Were Always Afraid to Ask During the worship services at our churches, we may notice a line of people waiting to confess. A priest is standing patiently at the…
August 12, 2021 Conversation about Passions, Thoughts and Spiritual Warfare There is a forest on Mount Athos surrounding the Prodromou Romanian hermitage in the Vigla Desert, not far from the sea. In this place…
August 12, 2021 Little Eagles Camp — Building a Christian Community This year, Saint Elisabeth Convent launched its Little Eagles Camp initiative to give children aged 7 – 14 an opportunity to spend an exciting…
August 11, 2021 St Peter’s Fish Do you remember the Gospel episode where Christ tells Peter to take the coin out of a fish’s mouth? It turns out that this…
August 10, 2021 Saint Elisabeth Romanov’s Marfo-Mariinsky Convent — a Renowned Model of a Community of Sisters of Mercy Two years after the assassination of her husband Grand Duke Sergey Romanov Grand Duchess Elisabeth Romanov established in 1909 the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent in Moscow….
August 10, 2021 About St Lavrentiy of Chernigov Bringing New People to His Choir and Recording New Chants Venerable Lavrentiy was an unusual choir director, but when God called him to this service he multiplied this gift, becoming known for it during…
August 9, 2021 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 7 Part 6 Thessaloniki The narrow streets of Thessaloniki with their identical low-slung buildings seemed to lack landmarks. I thought that if I got lost…
August 8, 2021 Miraculous Help from the Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon in Our Day On August 9, the Orthodox Church celebrates memory of Greatmartyr and Healer Panteleimon. On the eve of the feast, we would like to share…
