July 9, 2021 There Were Two Judas among the Apostles. What Do We Know about the Other Judas? Judas Iscariot is a well-known name. He was a close disciple of our Lord Jesus Christ who betrayed Him and took his own life….
April 13, 2021 Sinai Tea and Other Recipes from St Paisios of the Holy Mountain and His Favourite “Restaurant” on Mount Athos In 1962 St Paisios came to Sinai. There he lived in the cell of Sts Galaktion and Episteme and observed an ascetic rule that…
July 18, 2020 White Angel Sand Art Film The film “White Angel” is devoted to life and death of the Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fedorovna Romanova. The idea of creation and the final…
June 17, 2020 Saint Of Travellers St. Botolph (also Botulf) is one of the most venerated saints in Eastern England and one of the greatest English missionaries in the 7th…
June 16, 2020 The Relics Of The Saints One element of the practice of the Orthodox Church that is particularly troubling to many of those who are outside, particularly in contemporary Western…
June 14, 2020 Lives of Saints: the Evolution of the Genre This Sunday, the Church celebrates the memory of All Saints. I personally used to believe for a long time that saints weren’t unlike fairytale…
April 1, 2020 Saints on the Right Attitude to Illness After the Fall, disease and death haunt mankind. The world has known many epidemics that have claimed the lives of many people. Some of…
March 29, 2020 St. John Climacus: We Should Weep for Our Sins Today we commemorate St. John Climacus. The reason St. John Climacus is so named is because he left us a spiritual guide — the…
February 18, 2020 Saint Paisios of Mount Athos: How Great the Power of Repentance Is! God is very close to us but at the same time is very high. For a person to bend God over to condescend and…
February 15, 2020 St. Nicholas of Japan on Buddhism Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Archbishop Nicholas (Kasatkin; 1836-1912), an outstanding missionary to Japan where he labored for over fifty years, was the founder of the Japanese…