September 16, 2020 St Procopius of Sazava* On September 29 by old calendar Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of the Venerable Procopius, hegumen of Sazava, a saint of the ancient…
September 14, 2020 Saint Ciaran, Abbot of Clonmacnoise in Ireland St. Ciaran (Kieran) of Clonmacnoise is known as “Ciaran the Younger”. He was born in about 512 (about 516 is also found) to the family of…
September 12, 2020 Beheading of Saint John the Forerunner in Iconography In the Orthodox calendar, few saints have as many feast days as Saint John the Forerunner. Several events in the annual liturgical circle are…
September 6, 2020 Prophesies by St. Kosmas Aitolos Father Kosmas Aitolos was born in 1714 in the Greek village Megalo Dendro (Big Tree) in the region of Aitolia. He studied in Mount…
August 31, 2020 Holy Hierarch Aidan of Lindisfarne, Apostle of Northumbria and Wonderworker In the year 633, the pagan King Penda of Mercia invaded the kingdom of Northumbria in northern England, which had become Christian a short…
August 24, 2020 ‘Have an Abortion, otherwise Either She or the Baby Will Die.’ – The Greatest Miracle that Happened to Me by the Prayers of Saint Paisios Part 1 The path to Athos is open to men only. But in Greece there is a women’s monastery where they live according to strict Athonite…
August 23, 2020 Closer than My Own Father: Saint Paisios and His Spiritual Children The path to Athos is open to men only. But in Greece there is a women’s monastery where they live according to strict Athonite rules and…
August 21, 2020 Saint Paisios of Mount Athos: God’s Wisdom and the Environment Ah, what beauty has God created by His single word! What harmony, what diversity! Wherever you look, you can see God’s wisdom and majesty…
August 18, 2020 Why was Elijah the Prophet with the Lord during the Transfiguration? Elijah is one of the most revered prophets in the Russian Church. But unlike Isaiah, Jeremiah or Daniel, he left us no books or…
July 26, 2020 He Said It Would Hurt A Lot, And Then He Crossed Me: How One Man Met A Saint During The War This is an amazing story I recently heard from a war veteran from Petrozavodsk. His name is Dmitry Moskalev, he is 97 years old….
