August 23, 2021 A Lesson on Avarice from the Life of St Niphont People showing greed for money and no mercy for the poor usually try to justify their stinginess and stifle the voice of their conscience,…
August 5, 2021 How Saint Seraphim of Sarov Led a Protestant Family to See the Light of the Orthodox Faith Here is a beautiful story about Saint Seraphim upholding the truth of the Orthodox faith in eternity, as told by Metropolitan Veniamin (Fedchenkov). He…
August 3, 2021 Wordless Sermon Two elderly officers once met after years of not seeing each other. One of them was walking out of a church, and the other…
August 1, 2021 “Did Not Our Hearts Burn within Us?” Elder Aimilianos Through the Eyes of His Spiritual Children Schema-Archimandrite Aimilianos (Vafidis), a great elder of our time, was born on October 5 in 1934. In his memory, we are publishing a talk…
July 24, 2021 Big Basil’s Story In his talks with parishioners Fr Oleg Stenyaev often tells short and very vivid and uplifting stories that immediately make you want to write…
July 6, 2021 Elder Paisios about God Letting a Father of Six Win a Lottery Saint Paisios of the Holy Mountain once told the following story: People with many children may face difficulties in the beginning, but God never…
June 13, 2021 Salt of the Earth. Patriarch Pavle His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Pavle always avoided idle talk, but sometimes he compromised this principle for edifying others. One fun seeker often spent time…
May 5, 2021 Paschal Martyrdom in a Monastery that Never Sleeps On 23 April the Orthodox Church honours the memory of 179 newly revealed martyrs of Ntaou Penteli. An Orthodox Christian will recall that the…
April 28, 2021 A Satanist at Church — a True Story with an Unexpected End I know this story from my friend Father Oleg. He is an archpriest and parson of a church in Omsk, Russia He had hired…
April 5, 2021 “Take off Your Cross, Masha” Maria worked as a journalist for one of the less popular magazines. Her boss was a real beast, or, more precisely an arrogant, unprincipled,…
