How can we keep our faith in a rapidly secularizing world? How do we resist the temptations of ideas that promise quick solutions to the world’s problems? With his life and teachings, he answered many of these questions and brought thousands…
On the day of the Elder Nectarios' commemoration, we pray before this saint that the Lord will grant us His protection from the woeful influences of the world in its times of trouble, its temptations and deceptions, and false ideals of consumerism…
Thousands attended his homilies, and many more still pray with the words of the daily prayers and repentant canon he wrote. He takes a prominent place in the synaxis of Belarusian saints. Yet he described his role more humbly: "I am not a harvester,…
His great feat of courage is described by well-known church historians and confessors of the faith. Saint Gregory the Theologian lauded his steadfastness in his First Oration Against Julian. Theodorus of Currhus wrote about Saint Mark in his…