August 23, 2020 Closer than My Own Father: Saint Paisios and His Spiritual Children The path to Athos is open to men only. But in Greece there is a women’s monastery where they live according to strict Athonite rules and…
August 21, 2020 Saint Paisios of Mount Athos: God’s Wisdom and the Environment Ah, what beauty has God created by His single word! What harmony, what diversity! Wherever you look, you can see God’s wisdom and majesty…
August 18, 2020 Why was Elijah the Prophet with the Lord during the Transfiguration? Elijah is one of the most revered prophets in the Russian Church. But unlike Isaiah, Jeremiah or Daniel, he left us no books or…
July 26, 2020 He Said It Would Hurt A Lot, And Then He Crossed Me: How One Man Met A Saint During The War This is an amazing story I recently heard from a war veteran from Petrozavodsk. His name is Dmitry Moskalev, he is 97 years old….
July 24, 2020 Saint Juliania of Alšany On July 6, the Belarusian Orthodox Church celebrated the memory of the Belarusian princess who died for an unknown reason at the age of…
July 23, 2020 The Story of the Holy Prophet Elijah – Part Two So, now began the great confrontation between Elijah and the prophets of Baal, between truth and falsehood, between God and paganism. Elijah said, Take…
July 22, 2020 The Story of the Holy Prophet Elijah August 2 (July 20) is the feast of the Prophet Elijah. This is a wonderful story – of how God’s faithful prophet stood up…
July 20, 2020 Mother Maria of Paris: Saint of the Open Door “No amount of thought will ever result in any greater formulation than the three words, ‘Love one another,’ so long as it is love…
July 11, 2020 Saint Paisius the Athonite: Reasoning is the Salt of Virtue We need reasoning in everything that we do, so that it pleases God, and in every virtue so that it is really a virtue….
July 8, 2020 Martyr Alban of Britain On July 5 the Church celebrates the memory of the Holy Martyr Alban of Verulamium. St. Alban has not been very well known to…
July 7, 2020 The Seal of the Prophets The importance of John the Baptizer may be gauged by the amount of paint and ink the Church spends on him. His portrait is…
June 29, 2020 Translation of the Rilics of St. Theophan, the Recluse of Vysha The holy relics of St. Theophan the Recluse were secretly exhumed in 1973 on the territory of the Shatzk psychiatric hospital located in the buildings of…
