A Blessed Fast of the Dormition to All
The Dormition of the Theotokos is the Pascha of the summer. And like the Great Pascha, it is preceded by a fast. This fast is also similar in its severity to that of Great Lent that precedes Pascha.
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“What Good is the Rest of the Body When the Head is Corrupted?”
From the 1838 Encyclical “Against the Latin Innovations” of the Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople An often-heard argument in “Orthodox” circles concerning heresies such as ecumenism is “It’s not our concern what the patriarchs and hierarchs are doing. We…
5 Questions to Prove that You Might Not Understand the Church in the Same Way as St. Gregory the Theologian
From the “Epistle of St. Gregory the Theologian to the One-Hundred and Fifty Bishops”. Would you prefer all the Canaanites or one Abraham? Would you prefer all the inhabitants of Sodom or one Righteous Lot? Would you prefer the Midianites…
Learn the Mystery that the Austrian Former Prisoner of War Witnessed
An Austrian former prisoner of war witnessed that in 1948 the Soviet “authorities” discovered a secret women’s monastery 200 kilometers from the prisoner of war camp in the forests of Siberia, not far from the Arctic circle. A sentry found…
With Whom Will Archbishop Theophan of Poltava Be Left?
Thank you to Brother Michael Archbishop Theophan’s of Poltava meeting with a group of modernist clergy and liberal professors, who came to the Moscow All-Russian Church Council of 1917-1918, was a remarkable event. Vladika himself often liked to recall the…
Here’s What No One is Telling You about the True Orthodox Being So Few.
An Ancient Greek maxim says that “the good is not in the many”. We feel the pressure of living in apocalyptic times when the truth is not of importance to many and Faith for most people is just attending whatever…
What Was Hidden in Some Pits
Hieromonk Anthony from Tolshevsky monastery served secretly from one house to another. Hetonsured many into monasticism. In 1942 he and three monks dug out an underground hut in a shed (in Uglyanka) and there constructed a church with an altar.…
Until the Final Farewell
During the persecution of the Church and its clergy, in 1923 there came to the Caucasus a holy recluse, Elder Macarius. He appeared in the territory of Vladikavkaz, in a deserted place 20 miles from a small railroad station by…
The Secret Life of Abbess Antonina
From the life of Saint Antonina the Abbess: catacombhistory.blogspot.com An Abbess of the Catacomb Church during Soviet times. When her time of sentence was over, a group of twelve nuns formed a monastic community under her direction and went to…