April 21, 2019 Involuntary Faster: a Personal Story about God’s Providence This story happened to a son of a good friend of mine. She is still shocked by the clear evidence of God’s Providence in…
April 18, 2019 “St. Patrick’s Day Begins with Prayer, Not a Can of Guinness”: A Russian Priest on His Ministry in Ireland Archpriest George Zavershinsky has spent almost two decades as a priest in Western Europe, namely in Ireland and Scotland. His spiritual father had suggested that…
April 12, 2019 Gagarin and the Lavra Valentin Vassilyevich Petrov, a retired colonel, a professor at the Center of Cosmonaut Training, and a friend of Yury Gagarin, recalls their trip to…
April 11, 2019 “Horoscope for a Bishop” or Why People Are Disappointed When a Priest Can’t Foretell God’s Will It is quite normal for a believer to try to find out God’s will concerning himself and his life. The problem is how to…
April 4, 2019 “It’s Never Too Late”: a Nun’s Story about How our Parents Come to God Sometimes This story happened to my father, Eugene Ivanovich, in July 2014. My dad is 82. He grew up in a village and he is…
March 29, 2019 The Most Suitable Time for Changing Ourselves Father Alexander Volokhov is the rector of the Nikitskaya church of the Domodedovsky deanery. We’ve asked Fr Alexander to share his thoughts on how…
March 27, 2019 On Finding Time for God, for Yourself and for Others during Great Lent As I prepared for my first confession some years ago, I was given a rubric that I still follow. It asks me to reflect…
March 22, 2019 Miraculous Salvation of Metropolitan Joseph by the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste We would like to present to our readers a story of the ever-memorable Metropolitan Joseph (Chernov; 1893–1975) about how he one day nearly died…
March 20, 2019 Human Fates in St. Elisabeth Convent: Nun Vera (Gordienko), Part II Another Planet “It was extremely difficult for me to adapt to life in the Convent in all its aspects at first,” Nun Vera continues….
March 19, 2019 Human Fates in St. Elisabeth Convent: Nun Vera (Gordienko), Part I Vera (Faith). This nun got the name Vera during her tonsure for a reason. Before her coming to faith, this woman was addicted to…
