St. Anastasia the Roman
The Martyr Anastasia the Roman was born in Rome to well-born parents and left an orphan at the age of three. As an orphan, she was taken into a women’s monastery near Rome, where the abbess was a Nun named Sophia, a nun of…
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New Monastic Martyr Abbess Margaret of Menzelinsk
by Dr. Vladimir Moss Abbess Margaret, in the world Maria Mikhailovna Gunarodnoulo, was born in 1865 or 1866 in a family of Greek origin. Before becoming a nun she lived in Kiev. Her spiritual father was Protopriest Alexander Korsakovsky, the…
Sermon on the Seven Maccabee Brothers (1 August)
by + B. P. Today, we begin a period of fasting. In some ways, this brings a certain sadness to us due to the solemnity and struggle of holy fasting. However, the Holy Church today finds a way to bring…
SERMON ON THE SUNDAY OF ALL SAINTS WHO SHINED IN THE RUSSIAN LAND (unofficial translation)
BY HIS EMINENCE ARCHBISHOP TIKHON FIRST HIERARCH OF THE RUSSIAN TRUE ORTHODOX CHURCH 2022, Omsk, Siberia In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Today, on the second week after Pentecost, our Church…
The Repose of St. Columba, Apostle of Scotland
Commemorated June 9, the day of St Columba’s repose in 597. “While the blessed man was living in Iona, his holy countenance one day was lighted up suddenly with strange transports of joy; and raising his eyes to heaven…
SAINT MAXIMUS THE GREEK
By Dr. Vladimir Moss St. Maximus the Greek was an Athonite monk who was sent, according to Sir Steven Runciman, “by the Patriarch Theoleptus I to Russia in response to [Great Prince] Vassily III’s request for a skilled librarian. Maximus,…
Mijn eigen ontmoeting met de oudere Paisios
door bisschop Philaretos Het was het feest van de Heilige Huurlingen Cosmas en Damian (1/14 november) van 1992 en een zaterdag. Het weer was grijs en het leek alsof er regen op komst was. Ik was al 6 jaar priester. Ik was heel…
“Courageously Carrying the Present (Trials)”
From the hymnology of the feast of the 40 Holy Martyrs of Sebaste Our times are wicked and difficult! However, the forty Holy Martyrs of Sebaste that we celebrate call us to carry the present times like true soldiers of…
Saint Isidore of Pelusium Commemorated on February 4
Isidore was an Egyptian by birth and the son of a prominent family and kinsman of the Alexandrian Patriarchs Theophilus and Cyril. Having studied all the secular disciplines, he renounced worldly riches and glories and devoted himself completely to the…
Recollect the Fall of the Strong…
“Recollect the fall of the strong, that thou mayest remain humble under thy virtues. And think of the heavy sins of those who fell and repented, and of the praise and honour they received afterward so that thou mayest acquire…