Orthodox christianity

The book by Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann talks about the church sacraments that a person encounters when coming to faith. What happens during the sacra...

The holy Abba Macarius spent sixty years in a desert that was dead to the world. The monk spent most of his time in conversation with God, often in a state o...

V. I. Ekzemplyarsky. CHRISTIAN FOOLHOOD AND CHRISTIAN POWER (On the question of the meaning of life) Report read at a closed meeting of the Kyiv Religious an...

Gregory’s denunciations of unworthy clergy sound like a prophetic warning to all future generations of clergy. In the 11th century, Simeon the New Theologian...

With the blessing of Metropolitan JOHN of St. Petersburg and Ladoga

“We, St. Petersburg residents, need to remember that several years of the saint’s ...

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For a Christian, suffering and grief, the inevitable accompaniments of death, are combined with faith in eternal life and resurrection. This motif clearly so...

Saint Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) is a famous surgeon, scientist, talented writer and archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. During the years of persecution ...

In Rus' they have always loved and revered the sick, the crippled, the wretched, who bear their infirmity without grumbling, but with gratitude to God. Their...

Editor: Bishop Alexander (Mileant)