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Paskha is a delicious dish that is made out of cottage cheese and served on Easter day. This Paskha recipe includes boiled condensed milk which gives it a sweet caramel taste. This is an easy to follow recipe with only 8 ingredients.
As we are getting ready for the Easter liturgy, we invite you to view our choir practice on Saturday morning. Remember to book your calendar.
Some of us might say, "If Christ came to Belarus, we would not shout to crucify Him; we would listen to Him.” We would be wrong. Few of us today will be willing to be servants to the King of Heaven and follow him through the end.
Prebranac is one of the most popular dishes in Serbia. It is made from beans, onions, garlic, paprika, with the addition of salt and pepper. The name prebranac came from the words prebrati ili prebirati (to pluck, to plunk).
The reality is often different from our wishes. It is cruel to say to someone who is terminally ill, "You are going to get well." Instead, to talk to the person about their eternal destination is to express deep and genuine love.
The Gospel teaches us that our circumstances do not exist by chance but instead by intention for our good (Ephesians 2:10). Today, we talk to Nun Elisabeth from Germany about her progress towards God, the Orthodox Faith and monasticism.
Things that happen in the world are not of God. They are the products of our passions. Wild and raging passions are driving people’s actions. Why? Because people do not know where their homeland is, what the foundation of their lives should…
This year the women’s farmstead of Saint Elisabeth Convent celebrates its 10 year anniversary. It was established in 2011 in a former military base near Vishnyovka village, some 25 kilometres from Minsk.
Nun Natalia shares with us this milk and egg free crêpes recipe that can be used during the lenten season. These crêpes are light and airy, besides that they are very easy to bake.
At some point in our lives, we will find God’s grace and make steady progress in our spiritual and worldly lives. Our hearts will rejoice. Hope and faith will dwell in them, and there will be no room for despair.
Unction, or the rite of Anointing of the Sick, is one of the seven sacraments of the Orthodox Church. The purpose of Anointing of the Sick is to invoke God's healing grace on a person suffering from bodily and spiritual illnesses.
Rugelach cookies are everyone's favourite treat! During the Great Lent period dairy products are excluded. Nun Tatiana shares with us this rugelach cookies recipe that can be used during the lenten season.
We can fight off the virus by wearing a mask and keeping our distance, but to keep at bay the spirit of hostility is much harder, as it attacks us from afar.
At the end of the first week of Lent, all members of the Church confess and partake of the holy Sacraments of Christ. When we come to confession, we stand before God in His invisible presence. We have come to thank God, not to complain about…
How does she see the impact of her ministry on the lives of others and her own life? How did her coming to God influence her perception? We interviewed Sister Leonilla Utekhina to find out.
The supplementary education centre for children and youth ‘Kontakt’ recently hosted an event that many had been expecting for a long time. Young disabled artists received copies of the newly published calendars illustrated with their works.
Nun Rebecca (Pereira): I became a monastic to bring salvation to my soul. In this sense, the meaning of monasticism is the same irrespective of your location - Belarus, Serbia or Brazil.
Sister Raisa Shulga: “It is a great blessing that God had called me here and brought me to faith without sending me the sorrows I could not bear. The sisterhood and the convent are my way, my life and my meaning to it.”
For the brothers living at the farmstead of Saint Elisabeth Convent, work at the laser engraving workshop is an opportunity to acquire valuable skills and competencies, such as discipline, accuracy and responsibility.
The themes of this year's humanities days at Saint Elisabeth Convent's Ichthys school were beauty and joy. The students and teachers went on a breathtaking journey to find beauty in history and languages.
