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[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Island of Salvation

Alexander Segen

“People ask me, ‘How often should we go to church? Can we go once a week, or even once a month?’ I answer them, ‘You can stop going altogether. Just like that! Don’t go at all. Live your life without the Church, die, and you’ll go to hell. Then you’ll find yourself there, next to Hitler. You’ll be forever next to him. But just think about it: eternally! In hell. With Hitler.’”

[English Edition / Sretensky Monastery]

“Even While They Teach, Men Learn” Interview with Hieromonk Job (Gumerov)

Hieromonk Job (Gumerov), Vladimir Kuzmin

Fr Job, we sometimes publish your answers to “Questions to a Priest” posted on pravoslavie.ru. You manage to find simple and persuasive answers to difficult and ticklish questions which are within the grasp of people who don’t delve very deeply into religious matters. How are you able to find just the right words, what literature do you refer to, what experiences do you draw from?

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

The Diocese of Mexico: Forty Years of Ministry and Mission

The origin of what today is the Diocese of Mexico of the Orthodox Church in America were planted in the early 20th century, curiously through the Mexican National Catholic Church, distinct from the nation’s Roman Catholic Church. It was during the Revolution that antagonisms against the Roman Catholic Church were aroused by its historic association with the Spanish colonialists.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

Lullaby to Christ

Nun Euphemia (Paschenko)

When the man stopped playing, she walked up to the gathering and said that she wanted to sing, "Because today is the Nativity of Christ." Without waiting for an answer, she began to sing a little song in her trembling, aged, but pure voice.

[English Edition / Homilies and Spiritual Instruction]

When and How Should We Celebrate the New Year?

Fr. Alexander Shargunov

A Christian lives in two dimensions—time and eternity. May God grant us in this new year to be worthy citizens of our Fatherland, both earthly and heavenly. No matter what trials await us on earth, if we are faithful to the Lord, He will once again prepare heavenly consolations for each of us on the feast of the Nativity of Christ.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Documentary on Hogar Rafael, "Miracle In Zone One"

From its founding more than 150 years ago, through its seizure by the government of Guatemala and its return to a descendant of the founder, Orthodox Christian nun Madre Inés Ayau García, in the 1990s, the story of “The Hogar” and its impact on the life of children and adults involves one miracle after another.

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

Did the Mother of God Enter the Temple? Confession of a Doubter

Deacon Giorgi Maximov

Only standing upon the above-mentioned axioms is it possible, without noticing the entire absurdity of such a combination, to consider ourselves believing Christians and yet suppose that we know better what the Virgin Mary did and didn't do than the Christians of the second century, than Sts. Herman and Tarasius of Constantinople, St. Gregory Palamas, and others who wrote about these events as facts; and finally, better than the Church herself, which instituted this feast.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Russian Orthodox Church is seriously Christian, when the Westerns are quite secular

My decision did not come quickly just in a vacuum. The Russian Orthodox Church has also shown mercy in words and in deeds. I want to belong to the Church where I can see love and mercy. In the moral and theological views, the Russian Orthodox Church is seriously Christian, when the Western Churches are quite secular.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Respectibility and Conscience

Michael Astley

We are all sinners when we start off, and I know that I have remained so but I’m not about to walk away for that reason, however uncomfortable the struggle may seem at times, and to anybody who has spent some time teetering on the edge of Orthodoxy but hasn’t made the leap, and who has survived reading this far without becoming bored or too affronted to continue, I urge you to consider the reasons for your own inertia and ask yourself whether they justify your continued separation.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

The Orthodox Approach to Mission: Transforming the Heart of the World

It is only when we have a heart transfigured by God’s power, when we live a truly Christian life and bear its witness in the world, that we can then see what the world truly needs—and not simply what it thinks it needs, or what it wants. It is precisely in seeing the difference between the true life we live as Christians, and the life of the world, that we can point at this dimension or that like wise doctors and say ‘Aha! It is that which must be cured, if my patient is to be well!’ We see this through our lives, and the way our lives interact with those of the world.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Pakistan: Mission Possible

Things being as they are, it would seem that there is no basis to hope for any sort of growth of Christianity among the inhabitants of Pakistan. But, in fact, there is now a functional Orthodox mission in Pakistan, headed by a Pakistani priest, and already consisting of about five-hundred newly-converted Pakistanis.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

A Muslim is Baptized

The Muslim captain began to pray for help. He also saw how sincerely the Georgian Orthodox prayed. Then he himself turned to Jesus: ‘If Jesus helps me, then I’ll become a Christian’, he decided. The day was not over before the engines came back to life.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Great in the Lord is Seraphim

Father Seraphim and the American Heartland

In literally a few weeks, a group of Orthodox Christians established a parish in the Russian Orthodox tradition. This group included not only Russians but dyed-in-the-wool Americans. Today St Seraphim Parish also boasts Bulgarians, Serbs, Romanians and other Orthodox Christians.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

More and More People in Czechia and Slovakia Are Giving Preference to the Orthodox Church

Christopher, Archbishop of Prague and Metropolitan of the Czech and Slovakian lands.

The first contacts, which became the basis of the friendship between our Churches, go back to antiquity, in the tenth–eleventh centuries, when the recluse Procopius, like St. Sergius of Radonezh, founded a monastery in the forest wilderness not far from the Sázava river, which later became a large, famous monastery.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Orthodox Friuli

Archpriest Vladimir Melnichuk

In the mid 1980’s, one Italian young man, after a long search, found his path to God in Orthodoxy. He wanted to become a priest and went to Mt. Athos to Elder Paisios to ask what Orthodox country he should serve in. The answer he received was, “Stay in Italy. Soon, as if by a wave of the sea, the country will be covered by Orthodoxy. Divine services will take place in every city. You will be needed in your homeland.”

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

An Orthodox speech on an elevator

Terry Mattingly

The man in the next seat recently asked the priest a question he has heard many times: “What is Orthodox Christianity, anyway?” Ironically, Finley was — at that moment — writing some comments about a contest in which participants prepared a 30-second “elevator speech” response to strangers who asked that very question.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Conference celebrates African roots of Christian Orthodoxy

The Livonia woman, who was raised a Missionary Baptist and converted to Lutheranism, visited an Orthodox Christian Church one day several years ago and watched as white worshippers kissed the image of a dark-skinned man. It was the feast day of St. Moses the Black and the congregation had lined up to venerate his icon.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

“Savior of the Apples”

Ivan Shmelev

(From Year of the Lord.) It all seems to me that everyone is only thinking about apples. The Lord is also here with all of us, and He is also thinking about apples; after all, we’ve brought them to Him—look, Lord, how good they are! And He looks at them and says to all, “Well, good, and eat them to your health, children!” And they will be eating completely different apples—not store-bought, but church apples, holy ones. This is the very Transfiguration.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

The first Orthodox Pygmies

On the 26th of March, on the banks of the River Ubangi, I performed the third group Baptism at Impfondo. Among the catechumens, twenty-seven were prepared, of whom the twelve were little children. The seventeen were Bandu, of which the ten were Pygmies—four men and six women.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

Born to Lead

Maybe that’s the crux of it, when it comes to Klaus Kenneth. Mystics will say he found God, psychologists will say he found closure, but the story’s much the same whichever way you want to tell it: the story of a man who was raised without love, coldly and abusively – who “lived in Hell,” as he puts it – wandered for years trying to find inner peace, and finally found it.

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