December 31, 2019 New Year Service Live Streaming from Our Convent! Dear brothers and sisters! FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OUR CONVENT! Live video streaming from the New Year service in our convent! Starting at…
December 31, 2019 “Happy Santa Claus Day”: a Story that Happened in New York City on Christmas Day This funny story happened to one of the most inspired preachers of the Russian Church Outside Russia, Archbishop Averkius (Taushev) who wrote a Handbook…
December 31, 2019 Blessed New Year Resolutions Why do so many people make New Year’s resolutions? Is it because we see something in our lives we want to improve? We all…
December 30, 2019 Patience: Key to Harmony in Family Life What are we to do when faced by an angry family member? Elder Paisios advises us to keep quiet and say the Jesus prayer….
December 30, 2019 Breakers of Fasts (Holy Prophet Daniel and the three holy youths Ananias, Azariah and Mishael) The current lovers of the world and its delights do not revolt…
December 29, 2019 15 Quotations of St. John of Tobolsk (Maximovich) 1. It is clear that devastating wars and other calamities do not take place without the will of God. However, it does not necessarily…
December 29, 2019 A Dinner Invitation: What’s Your Excuse? Today we celebrate the holy forefathers of our Lord Jesus Christ, the patriarchs and the prophets and the other holy men and women from…
December 28, 2019 Why Is “Servant of God” a Noble Title? “Servant of God” – this word combination, which the Orthodox use a lot, confuses many non-believers and generates a lot of criticism from the…
December 28, 2019 How Did Saints Communicate with Celebrities: Saint Ambrose and Dostoevsky The communication between famous people and saints is always very intense, fruitful, devoid of an empty exchange of courtesies and secular falsehood. Inside this…
December 27, 2019 Our Convent Is Meeting a Dear Guest – Archbishop Michael (Donskov) At the invitation of Archpriest Andrey Lemeshonok, our convent’s spiritual father, we have Archbishop Michael (Donskov), former Archbishop of Geneva and Western Europe as…