August 1, 2018 783 0 Personal Stories about the Modern Day Miracles of St. Seraphim of Sarov Vladimir S. “Now see, young man, that you don’t let me down.” In August of 2007, my wife and I took a tour of…
July 30, 2018 1448 0 26 Quotes of the Holy Fathers about Anger 1. Do not let the sun go down on the anger of your brother (Eph. 4:26); that is, let no one be angry and…
July 26, 2018 110 0 St. Yakov Netsvetov, the Enlightener and Baptizer of the Native Peoples of Alaska Today, July 26th, is the feast day of St. Yakov/Jacob Netsvetov, the Enlightener and Baptizer of the Native Peoples of Alaska. His story is…
July 19, 2018 360 0 10 Quotes of Guidance from St. Ambrose of Optina 1. Life will become peaceful and successful only when we will stop being forgetful and stop forgetting God, our Creator and Savior and the…
July 19, 2018 115 0 Personal Story: The Confession of a Suicidal Man In my years of experience as a priest I had one very interesting story. Once my relative, who lives in a remote village, asked…
July 14, 2018 94 0 Is Tithing a New Testament Practice? Tithing was the practice of giving ten percent of one’s “increase” to God. By increase, this meant that whatever one’s labor managed to acquire,…
July 8, 2018 564 0 Fr. Moses Berry: From Hippie to Orthodox Christian You wouldn’t suspect that the jovial Orthodox priest who carries the gold chalise with such reverence from behind the iconostasis of “Mother of Unexpected…
May 8, 2018 139 0 From Pastor to Priest: Fr. Igor Zyryanov on His Personal Spiritual Journey In 2009, the well-known Russian Protestant pastor Igor Zyryanov converted to Orthodoxy along with his entire community of neo-Pentecostals. Today Fr. Igor is the…
April 26, 2018 83 1 Over 1000 Children Baptized by Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia The Georgian people have again expressed their great love of and trust in His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia, bringing more than 1,000…
April 25, 2018 55 1 Reclamation and Redemption at the Men’s Farmstead of St. Elisabeth Convent Although I spent two years in seminary—and thus, in church services with a lot of men—I wasn’t prepared for the demographics inside the church…