July 8, 2020 Martyr Alban of Britain On July 5 the Church celebrates the memory of the Holy Martyr Alban of Verulamium. St. Alban has not been very well known to…
July 7, 2020 The Seal of the Prophets The importance of John the Baptizer may be gauged by the amount of paint and ink the Church spends on him. His portrait is…
June 29, 2020 Translation of the Rilics of St. Theophan, the Recluse of Vysha The holy relics of St. Theophan the Recluse were secretly exhumed in 1973 on the territory of the Shatzk psychiatric hospital located in the buildings of…
June 26, 2020 Three Mistakes of Blessed Augustine’s Theology Blessed Augustine is known not only in the West, but also in the Orthodox East. We honor the memory of this saint, read his…
June 22, 2020 Saint Paisios of Mount Athos: How the World Has Wandered Away People’s anger has crossed all boundaries. People tend to deceive each other and deception is considered an achievement. Really, how the world has lost…
June 21, 2020 All Saints of Russia and America The present feast is an extension, or a prolongation of that one, with the exception that today we concentrate our attention and praise on…
June 17, 2020 Holy Fathers on Marriage As it is impossible that a man who is chaste despises his wife and ever neglects her, so it is impossible that a man…
June 11, 2020 15 Quotations from Saint Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) Physical fast helps us to repent and be saved, because, as we have already seen, gluttony is the mother of all other passions and…
June 5, 2020 Resurrection of an Addict: A Miracle of Saint Gabriel Urgebadze This event took place on October 14, 1998 on the holiday of Svetitskhoveli in Mtskheta, the ancient capital of Georgia. George, its main character,…
June 3, 2020 Inexhaustible Interest in Life: Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Queen Helena We had a discussion with friends over tea the other day about how interesting it is to be alive. This interest – not quite…