Tag Dr. Vladimir Moss

THE RACE OF LIFE

By Vladimir Moss      Life is a race for the prize of salvation; and few there be who win it. We are reminded of this in today’s Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which is supremely unimportant, irrelevant and even harmful for those…

FROM THE ASCENSION TO PENTECOST by Vladimir Moss

     The period between the Ascension of the Lord and the Descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost is a very specific and unique period in the Church Year. The Ascension is clearly the supreme climax in the Life…

THE SACRIFICE FOR SIN

by Dr. Vladimir Moss In the shadow and the letter of the Law, let us, the faithful, discern a figure: every male child that opens the womb shall be sanctified to God. Therefore do we magnify the firstborn Word and…

RIGHTEOUS NICODEMUS

by Vladimir Moss Today is the Sunday of the Holy Myrrh-bearers, Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus. The least famous among these holy men and women is Nicodemus. But his story is no less instructive than the others’. Nicodemus was “a…

Noah’s Flood

by Dr. Vladimir Moss   Just as sin multiplied in the prediluvial world, so did its punishment. The Flood came and destroyed the whole of humanity and animal life with the exception of Noah and his sons and those who…

The Church Cult of Stalin

by Dr. Vladimir Moss In his secret speech to the Communist Party in 1956, Khrushchev denounced Stalin’s “personality cult”. Unfortunately, the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (ROC-MP) heeded this warning little, although in all other respects it was subordinate…