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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.
Our lay sister Tatiana Zhedik met the relatives of the Hieromartyr Simeon Kaminsky a long ago in 2003 in Cincinnati, Ohio. This meeting reveals to us the story of the life of a little-known Belarusian saint.
Every soul is a mystery. Today we can only guess what really happened… According to the locals, the priest Simeon Kaminsky knew that he was going to be killed. But he preferred to stay and accepted martyrdom for his faith.
Mother Anfisa is one of the first residents of our Convent. She oversees the service of our Sisters of Mercy at the National Centre for Mental Health and leads the rehabilitation art studio “Blessed Heaven”.
During the Great Patriotic War, Orthodox churches, previously transformed by the godless regime into warehouses, clubs, and outbuildings, were being reopened in eastern Belarus. It was necessary to restore parochial life, completely ruined in…
On 31 August, the Orthodox faithful commemorate the miracle-working icon of the Mother of God "Pantanassa". Its copies can be found in churches across the world, and the original is kept at Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos.
The Apostles greeted the Theotokos with great joy and honoured Her not only as the Mother of their beloved Teacher and Lord but also as their heavenly Helper, the Protector of Christians, and the Intercessor for all mankind.
On the feast day of the Dormition, we honour the translation into the eternal life in God of the Most Holy Theotokos, who leads us along to God, comforts us on the journey to His Kingdom, and embraces us with His Divine Love
As August comes to an end, the Orthodox Church prepares to celebrate one of the twelve Great Feasts of the Church, the Dormition of the Theotokos. Here in the Belarusian Orthodox Church, the feast falls on August 28 each year.
This narrative lies at the heart of the iconographic depictions of the Assumption of the Mother of God, a central event to Christianity. Many elements in the icon of the Dormition have a deep liturgical meaning.
August 22 marks a special milestone — our Convent’s 25th anniversary! On this day in 1999, Metropolitan Philaret performed the Rassophore tonsure of three sisters and blessed seven others to begin their novitiate.
The parishioners, the labourers and the many friends in many countries have been united as one helping the Sisters build St Elisabeth Convent. It is no surprise that many different people view the Convent in a certain sense as a public domain.
We celebrate the Holy Dormition — a feast of our collective hope. It is the first fruit of Christ’s victory over death: the Dormition and resurrection of His Most Pure Mother. Death now becomes merely a temporary slumber of the body.
As the teaching says, “the icons of the Mother of God are like stars in the sky: only the Queen of Heaven herself knows their number.” Sometimes copies of glorified icons appear that also become miraculous.
A great God’s servant and prayerful intercessor of the Russian land, the Venerable Seraphim of Sarov lived to the glory of God and continues to shine upon us through the centuries with everlasting brilliance.
Among the esteemed names of Russian artists who mastered religious painting, Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov stands out prominently.
Prince Vladimir was the first to embrace and choose the Heavenly Kingdom together with the Russian people. He was the first to set out on the path of the Cross. For him, this could not have been but related to a big inner struggle.
