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,…
March 28, 2021 God Hears The Widows’ Tears the Soonest We often say that the Lord protects widows and orphans. This is the absolute truth, for the Lord truly is their protector and sometimes…
March 23, 2021 “A Life-sentenced Prisoner Told Patriarch Kirill that He Had a Small Request for Him” An Extraordinary Occurrence in Butyrka Prison 250 years ago, Empress Catherine the Great issued a decree on the construction of the Butyrskaya Prison Fortress in the North of Moscow. Today…
March 19, 2021 “And then I suddenly Had an Amazing Dream” – A Story of an Atheist Returning to Faith and Eventually Becoming a Priest I am a priest now. However, there once was a day when I tore my baptismal cross off my neck. My father was a…
March 12, 2021 In Loving Memory of Our Kolya At some stage in their lives, people will encounter disability face to face. They will react differently – some with pity, others with compassion,…
March 10, 2021 A Miracle in the Lavra It’s not as hard as you would think with children during self-isolation. My sons are ten and five years old. We read, do woodcarving,…
March 9, 2021 “He Was Alive and Fit When He Entered the Elevator but Arrived Dead.” Stories of Two Encounters with God Eugenia met her soulmate after she prayed to St Matrona of Moscow. The happy couple were expecting a child when the head of the…
March 9, 2021 Music Stars Who Left the Stage to Seek the Glory of God These two rock musicians were rising stars in the eyes of their fans, and prodigal sons in the eyes of our Lord. Through His…
March 2, 2021 A Saint at the Beer Joint Memories of a New Christian Revaz says: In the late 1980s, my hectic life led my family to the verge of a complete breakdown….
February 25, 2021 The Heart of a Harlot “Verka the whore” — a frightened whisper spread through the church among the elderly. Someone ran after the watchman, to get the girl out as quickly as…
