Mikhail Skobelev
The readiness to face the mystery, the inexplicability of suffering that befalls us and that people around us face is the main lesson that we must learn from the Book of Job.
St. Seraphim (Chichagov)
Among believers, miracles are continual—daily and hourly. Some see them, understand them with the mind, and perceive them with the heart; others do not.
Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)
Through the lips of an early ascetic, St. Ignatius answers this question: “Who can be saved even in these complicated circumstances? Only a humble, humble-minded person.”
Fr. James Guirguis
This is always the path to salvation, conversation and engagement with Jesus Christ.
Schema-Archimandrite Mikhail (Krechetov)
We continue to introduce our readers to the previously unpublished answers of Schema-Archimandrite Mikhail (Krechetov; before monastic tonsure, Archpriest Valerian) to young people.
Hieromonk Athanasius (Deryugin)
Our attitude towards others, our behavior at home and at work, even our communication with people who we meet by chance—everything should be the service of God, because everything should be directed towards the commandments of God.
But even if the goal is right and lofty, in Orthodoxy the principle born in the Catholic West, “the end justifies the means,” is impossible. In Orthodoxy, both the end and the means must be of the same spirit.
Hieromonk Seraphim (Panich)
Among a whole host of holy martyrs shine forth particularly the holy great-martyrs, who endured especially terrible sufferings for Christ and whose victory is of great importance for all Christendom.
Hieromonk Silouan (Mezhinsky)
Only with Christ does the human soul become the most precious gem or diamond, the greatest jewel on earth.
Alexei Tereshchenko
To rise for prayer before opening the phone, a book, or sitting down to breakfast—that is our spiritual firstfruit.
Vladimir Shishkin
At times, a single text from the Pentecostarion can fill us with Paschal vigor, illumine us with joy, warm the heart.
Priest Tarasiy Borozenets
In consumerist consciousness man is the consumer, God is the service provider, the Church is the company providing these services; faith, the sacraments, and prayers are means.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko)
When a person refuses the Divine will, he inevitably becomes a toy in the hands of alien powers.
The holy Church of Christ blesses the memory of all saints, and Christians especially cherish these Myrrh-bearing Women, these happy companions of Christ, who served the Master not only from their substance, but also with the work of their hands; who were devoted to Him with all their hearts.
Fr. Lawrence Farley
Christian authority is built on the foundation of a prior and more fundamental equality: before one is a father, one is a brother. All Christians share a common brotherhood, offering their ultimate submission to Christ and God the Father.
With the true revelation of the identity of Jesus, there is a new paradigm, a new set of rules…..a new reality.
Svetlana Rybakova
I remember how difficult the ascent was: the searing heat, as if we had been placed inside a huge oven, the steep rocky path running between the mountain and the precipice, and on top of this the continual thirst.
Igumen Tikhon (Borisov)
We can find very little about the holy Myrrh-Bearing Women in the Gospel pages. But there are the most important things in this “little”: faithfulness and love.
Metropolitan Rastislav of Prešov
God expects our questions. He isn’t afraid of our doubts.
Elena Nasledysheva
Radonitsa is Pascha for the dead. On the days of Holy Pascha, we greet each other with the words: “Christ is Risen!” It is quite natural to say the same words to the departed.
