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A Sermon of Metropolitan Philaret on the Sunday of St. John of the Ladder
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy SpiritMore than once, brethren, the fact has been mentioned that on each Sunday in the Great Fast there are other commemorations beside that of the Resurrection. Thus, on this day, the Church glorifies the righteous John […]
Instructions by St. Anatoly of Optina
Elder Anatoly had a gift of prophesy, and clearly understood the impending trials that Christians would have to face in the last times, the era of the apocalypse, due to “poverty in piety” and a lack of true hierarchs. These instructions bespeak his tremendous love and concern for the faithful […]
The Insights of Holy Abba Pambo
Excerpt: “Their soul will be spilled out among them, and will become alienated from its Heavenly Prototype. For this reason the Holy Fathers had previously encouraged the monks of the desert to write down the lives of the Fathers not onto parchment, but onto paper, because the coming generation will […]
On The Modern World by Vladika Averki
“For us modern Christians faith, for the most part, is being divorced from life.” Vladika Averki is most sober in his asessment of contemporary Christianity, and calls us away from “dancing on the grave of Russia” to true repentance and a fundamental reformation of our lives to the Christian ideal. […]
Introduction to the Lives of the Saints by Fr. Justin Popovich
This is a excerpt Taken from Orthodox Faith and Life in Christ, by Father Justin Popovich. EULOGY IN MEMORY OF FR. JUSTIN (POPOVICH) Until the coming of the Lord Christ into our terrestrial world, we men really knew only about death and death knew about us. Everything human was penetrated, […]
The Lord in the Guise of a Woman
by Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich Bishop Nikolai discusses the several parables in which the Lord is symbolized by a woman. He explains that women generally have a couple of qualities that men do not: carefulness over property, and labour for love and not fiscal gain. Bishop Nikolai’s exegesis extends our understanding […]
Paschal Sermon by St. John Chrysostom
This paschal sermon originally composed by St. John Chrysostom is read at all Orthodox paschal services. If any man be devout and love God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast. If any man be a wise servant, let him rejoicing enter into the joy of his Lord. […]
The Life of Abbess Rufina: Royal Path of a Great Struggler
By Abbess Ariadna `Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God, consider the outcome of their life, and imitate their faith.’ (Heb.13:7) Abbess Rufina with the Vladimir Icon Chapter I: Olga Kokoreva On June 27, 1872, in the town of Perm, a daughter was born […]
About Sergianism by Priest Vladimir Krivolutsky
A devastating account of Sergianism in eschatological terms written by a confessor of the catacomb church who suffered in Stalin’s gulag. This article was originally published in the Paris based publication Mepa (Russ.), where it was printed in abridgment. Published to the internet in English translation by Protodeacon Basil Yakimov […]
True Orthodoxy
An article by one of our Church’s most respected hierarchs, Archbishop Averki of Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY (who reposed in the Lord in 1975), talks about the meaning of True Orthodoxy in the modern world. For more information on Archbishop Averki, click here. Few people today know that […]
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