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Discover how Saint Spyridon’s enduring miracles — from healing plagues to protecting Corfu in battle — continue to inspire faith and hope among Orthodox and Catholic believers worldwide. Experience his timeless grace.
How does fasting work in Orthodox Christianity? Orthodox Christianity fasting rules and days. Differences in fasting in diffferent Orthodox churches.
Since 2008, Nun Agapia has guided the Convent’s exhibitions and the Joy Festival — now the largest Orthodox festival in Belarus. She recounts how teamwork, prayer, and God’s providence carried them through storms, hardships, and countless labors.…
On the eve of the Presentation of the Most Holy Theotokos, members of our congregation shared their thoughts and feelings about the moment when they consciously joined the Church and began their life with Christ.
In the late 12th century, the Most Holy Theotokos bestowed Her grace upon us through an extraordinary icon — a small copper cross bearing the image of the Mother of God and the Divine Child on one side, and the Crucifixion on the other.
Meet Nun Sophia, whose obedience in iconography reveals a life shaped by faith and quiet perseverance. She shows how every icon carries its own story and its own destination.
There exists a place on Earth where, atop a mountain ridge 1,450 metres high, the inhabitants have erected a throne. This throne belongs to none other than the Most Holy Theotokos.
The aid of the Queen of Heaven continues to flow ceaselessly upon humanity. She, the Swift Protectress, quickly hears our petitions when we are lost and seek Her guidance.
Exploring Klaus's spiritual search across religions, this story reveals how meeting Father Sophrony and experiencing genuine mercy led to a lasting sense of belonging and closeness with God.
At St Elisabeth Convent, prayers are offered at the Divine Liturgy (Sorokoust) and in the Sleepless Psalter, day and night. Learn how these ancient practices unite the living and the departed in unceasing prayer.
One of the most powerful ways to help those who have gone before us is through commemoration at the reading of the Psalter. This is more than an ancient practice that has existed in our Church since the fourth century.
The Nativity Fast sanctifies the last part of the year and is established so that by the day of the Nativity of Christ we will purify ourselves by repentance, prayer and abstinence. As a result, we could piously meet the Son of God who came…
Explore how faith, family traditions, and Church service intertwined amid exile and hardship, highlighting Saint John of Shanghai’s role in guiding a Russian Orthodox family’s spiritual life abroad.
An inspiring story of Lavrishevo’s rich heritage, centuries of dedication and touching miracles that continue to draw scores of pilgrims and renew hearts.
St. Paulinus was simple and compassionate. He came out of the peasantry and became an archbishop. His cuff is kept as a great shrine in the Novospassky Monastery where he was once tonsured a monk.
The Kazan Icon of the Mother of God is not just a rallying point for armed resistance to a foreign enemy. Rather, it is an inspiration for all of us to confront the enemy within ourselves.
People recognised Grand Duchess Elisabeth as a saint even during her lifetime. Her path to Heaven was illuminated by great contemporaries, later glorified by the Church.
Believers invoke the icon praying for the help of the Holy Theotokos in meeting their basic needs, avoiding droughts, gathering a good crop, and daily sustenance. Saint Ambrose of Optina left us his short prayer before this icon.
The love of the Mother of God for us sinners is not easy to comprehend, but God has given us Her holy icons so we may not forget how much She loves us as we go about our daily business.
Halloween is rooted in ancient pagan practices, and these roots are not harmless; they carry a deep resonance with the demonic. The veneration of fear, horror, and the macabre can never bring glory to God.
