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Since Prince Dimitry’s time, this sacred custom of commemoration for fallen heroes and departed family members has fostered unity among generations, binding them together in prayer and ecclesiastical fellowship.
The Apostle Luke is mostly known as one of the four Evangelists. In fact, he told us more than the other three about our Lord’s childhood, as well as about His mother Mary.
How many monasteries are there in the world? There are no exact statistics, but certainly a large number. Luckily, many monasteries welcome visitors, offering believers a chance to connect more deeply with their faith.
Here are five narratives from the lives of God's saints and His children that show how God provides for our spiritual and earthly needs in the fulness of His love for us.
In our reports from the Balkans column, we talk about the monasteries, churches, and Orthodoxy in that region through personal stories of monks, priests, abbots and famous Orthodox Christians of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and…
The life of this man tells the tale of a righteous soul faithfully serving God, much like the lives of many other shepherds whose ministry coincided with the Church’s most tumultuous years in the early twentieth century.
We are grateful to God to have a heavenly Mother Who has adopted all the people as Her children – obedient or rebellious, good natured or ill-willed. She loves us as a mother, and will always help and protect us whenever we need it.
Nun Lyubov (Nikolayeva) was born on the day of the Protecting Veil of Theotokos. Read the story of the sister of our Convent about an unusual path to God and the intercession of the Queen of Heaven.
On the 18th of November, we commemorate the restoration of patriarchy in the Russian Orthodox Church, a significant moment during the tumultuous days of 1917. At the helm of this crucial time stood St. Tikhon (Bellavin).
Even as a five-year-old, the future saint felt a calling to preach. The lessons in theology gained through purity of heart, sincere faith, and patient endurance of hardships, are invaluable to us.
Love, kindness and warmth can do wonders: it brings an inner change in people without embittering them and teaches them to love others, as these episodes from the life of Elder Hieronymus of Aegina show.
Today we commemorate St. Dionysius the Areopagite, a man of great learning and spiritual depth. His book, “On the Celestial Hierarchy,” resonates powerfully today, when everyone craves freedom and resists authority.
The small village of Rozhkovka is nestled in the heart of Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Today, only a few elderly residents remain in it, some of whom still recall those days, marked by tragedy and an astounding miracle.
There are always people in front of the Healer icon of the Mother of God in our church. Most often, they ask for the healing of someone they love and care about, petitioning the Mother of God for Her intercession.
