June 26, 2020 Three Mistakes of Blessed Augustine’s Theology Blessed Augustine is known not only in the West, but also in the Orthodox East. We honor the memory of this saint, read his…
June 22, 2020 Saint Paisios of Mount Athos: How the World Has Wandered Away People’s anger has crossed all boundaries. People tend to deceive each other and deception is considered an achievement. Really, how the world has lost…
June 21, 2020 All Saints of Russia and America The present feast is an extension, or a prolongation of that one, with the exception that today we concentrate our attention and praise on…
June 17, 2020 Holy Fathers on Marriage As it is impossible that a man who is chaste despises his wife and ever neglects her, so it is impossible that a man…
June 11, 2020 15 Quotations from Saint Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) Physical fast helps us to repent and be saved, because, as we have already seen, gluttony is the mother of all other passions and…
June 5, 2020 Resurrection of an Addict: A Miracle of Saint Gabriel Urgebadze This event took place on October 14, 1998 on the holiday of Svetitskhoveli in Mtskheta, the ancient capital of Georgia. George, its main character,…
June 3, 2020 Inexhaustible Interest in Life: Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Queen Helena We had a discussion with friends over tea the other day about how interesting it is to be alive. This interest – not quite…
June 3, 2020 Schemamonk George from the Old Russikon, a Disciple of Elder Joseph the Hesychast Schemamonk George was a little-known ascetic, laboring in asceticism on Mt. Athos for twenty years. He was a disciple of the great Elder Joseph…
June 1, 2020 Holy Fathers on Sickness You are afraid and confused in the spirit that cholera is approaching your area, and you are asking for my advice and encouragement….
May 24, 2020 15 Quotations of St. Barsanuphius of Optina 1. Eternal torment and eternal bliss are not things that only come from the outside. They are primarily found within man himself. The Kingdom…
May 23, 2020 Saint Germanus of Auxerre Christians commemorate St. Germanus of Auxerre, a saint from ancient Gaul, on July 31. By decree of the Synod of the Russian Church in…
May 22, 2020 “On the Same Day I Received Two Gifts from Saint Nicholas!” My whole life has been connected with the name of St. Nicholas: I remember how, from my childhood, a small icon with the face…
