July 24, 2021 Big Basil’s Story In his talks with parishioners Fr Oleg Stenyaev often tells short and very vivid and uplifting stories that immediately make you want to write…
July 23, 2021 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 2 Part 1 How It Became Possible for Me to Visit Athos I am a rural priest serving in a small church of St Nicholas…
July 23, 2021 «Prayer Is the Most Awesome Thing in the World» — Selected Quotes from the Actor Piotr Mamonov On 15 July, the Russian actor Piotr Mamonov departed to God at seventy years of age. As a tribute to this outstanding actor, we…
July 23, 2021 Why Do People Lose Their Love? About the Spiritual Leaven of Marriage Clearly, love cannot be ‘lost’ ipso facto. Anything less than eternal has no right to be called love. Love is when two persons unite…
July 22, 2021 Is It Possible for a Grave Sinner to Repent at Their Death and Go to Heaven? In principle, yes. But remember that the key element here is repentance. In the Gospel, we find an outstanding example of repentance at death….
July 21, 2021 Is “Gentle Upbringing” Wrong? Why do we scold our children? I will begin by citing a fragment from the memoirs of my teacher, academician Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachov. He…
July 20, 2021 Being Content with Little: Wonderful Story by Archimandrite Gregory (Zumis) St Paul the Apostle writes simply and succinctly about being satisfied with little, “…if we have food and clothing, we will be content with…
July 20, 2021 Viewing Monasticism as a Lived Experience Archpriest Vladimir Kotsaba accepted monastic tonsure with the name Victor on 20 March 2015 at Kiev – Pechersk Lavra from Metropolitan Onufriy (Berezovsky), Primate…
July 19, 2021 Come with Me to Mount Athos. Part 1 Author’s Note Travelling is a lot like reading a good book. First of all because it brings discoveries. All countries on earth were discovered…
July 19, 2021 What Kind of Charity Is True? For those who have an opportunity to provide the poor with real help, we will say the following. There is pretend alms, for example,…
July 18, 2021 The Venerable Martyr Elizabeth: The Mystery of Witnessing to Christ Unto Blood “I did not accept this as a cross, but as a path full of light that was shown to me by the Lord following…
July 17, 2021 Why Is Abraham Called the “Father of Believers”? And what is the meaning of the phrase “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness” (James 2:23)? Traditionally, we call…
