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

On the Feast of the Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and All the Heavenly Bodiless Powers

Archimdrite Kirill (Pavlov)

When amidst a distracted and sinful life you suddenly feel a revulsion for sin, and under the influence of bright thoughts you get the desire to change your way of life, it means that your guardian angel has found a serendipitous moment to place before your inner eyes sin as it really is, in all its foulness.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Elder Gabriel (Urgebadze): His Life, Miracles, and Service after his Death

Larisa Khrustalyeva

Coming to the starets at his grave every day, I noticed that you could feel a special grace and tranquility. You don’t think about anything, nothing comes to your mind, you don’t worry about anything. There is extraordinary peace in your soul.

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Dare to do more!

AbbotMikhail (Semenov) on the path of monasticism

Yulia Posashko

How obedience is bound up with love, how a monastery can be built from zero, why elders are not wizards, and why a monk never justifies himself are a few of the topics we discussed with Abbot Mikhail (Semenov) of the Hermitage of the Savior “Made Without Hands” in the village of Klykovo.

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Met. Ephrem on the Rich Man and Lazarus

Metropolitan Ephrem (Kyriakos)

One might wonder what that rich man did to go to torment. Did he do something evil to Lazarus? He did not harm Lazarus and did not do or say anything to him. So what is the mistake that the rich man made?

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Commentary on the Gospel about the healing of the gadarene demoniac

Newly-discovered texts

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

After the death of Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh, cassettes were found among his things, with talks on selected parts of the Gospel of St. Mark. We present to your attention one such talk, dedicated to the healing of the Gadarene demoniac.

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A Word from the Patriarch. "Love is the most important thing in life"

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

The Apostle says, But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ… Then he pronounces these words of great power and importance: by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world (Gal. 6:14). What do these words of the apostle mean? They mean only one thing—that the cross is placed upon the whole world as a kind of measuring-stick of Divine righteousness and Divine truth…

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The Christian Life is Monastic Life

Nathan Duffy

To a culture whose core values are self-fulfillment, self-satisfaction, and self-sovereignty, Orthodox monastic life appears as an affront and a scandal. What could be more contrary to our individualistic society which prizes comfort, ease, and “freedom” above all other concerns than a life of utter self-abasement, strict obedience, and striving after Holy suffering for Christ’s sake?

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Walking on the water: how can we believe in the impossible?

Igumen Nektary (Morozov), Elena Balayan

How can modern man believe in God and trust in Him, how can we feel what goes beyond the boundaries of the five human senses: Elena Balayan talks with Igumen Nektary (Morozov).

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Believing in the Good

Priest Dimitry Shishkin

In nearly every person’s biography—internal or external—there is something shameful, something terrible and torturous to remember, but which inevitably comes back to his memory and feelings him from time to time, poisoning his entire existence. Even if there be a person who self-contentedly announces that there never has been anything like that in his life, then most likely the memory of any shameful deeds and desires are simply eclipsed in him by his self-assurance, which cannot endure to admit his spiritual bankruptcy. But here is the question: Does the presence of dark moments in a person’s life mean that we can evaluate him through the prism of these facts, that we can view him as worthless?

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Fr Seraphim Cardoza: The Origin of Monasticism & Fasting

Fr. Seraphim Cardoza (St. Innocent Orthodox Church) talks about the origin and meaning of Monasticism. He also explains biblical roots and spiritual benefits of fasting.

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On Music, Art, and Theater

From the legacy of the Optina Elders

Olga Rozhneva

The Optina elders expressed their opinion about lay people visiting the theater, about the passion for reading novels, exhilaration over the canvases of painters, the longing to listen to music for hours or even constantly.

[English Edition / Theology]

A Reply to One Well Disposed Towards the Latin Church

Regarding the unjust glorying of the papists in the imaginary dignity of their Church

St. Ambrose of Optina

The Eastern Orthodox Church, from apostolic times until now, observes unchanged and unblemished by innovations both the Gospel and Apostolic teachings, as well as the Tradition of the Holy Fathers and resolutions of the Ecumenical Councils, at which God-bearing men, having gathered from throughout the entire world, in a conciliar manner composed the divine Symbol of the Orthodox Faith [the Creed], and having proclaimed it aloud to the whole universe, in all respects perfect and complete, forbade on pain of terrible punishments any addition to it, any abridging, alteration, or rearrangement of even one iota of it.

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"Goodness is Tested by its Encounter with Evil"

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

I am convinced that God concerns Himself with the fate of mankind. Second, I think that if there is freedom in man that was given by God, God no longer has the right to stand in the way of this freedom and destroy it. Otherwise it would look like this: God makes you free, but the moment you use that freedom in a way that He doesn’t like He flattens you and you are no more.

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What Is the Unforgivable Sin?

Fr. Lawrence Farley

The pastoral irony of all this, of course, is that any Christian who asks a priest with trembling whether or not he has committed the unforgivable sin cannot possibly have committed it, for the question proves that the one asking it loves Jesus and fears being separate from Him.

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

Met. Anthony of Surouzh. Doubt and the Christian Life

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

Ten years ago today, the outstanding missionary, Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Surouzh, reposed in the Lord. Metropolitan Anthony was a prolific writer and preacher, and left volume of inspiration for the Christian life. In honor of his repose day, we present one of his many powerful homilies.

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What St. Seraphim Meant

Fr. Stephen Freeman

“Acquire the Spirit of Peace and a thousand souls around you will be saved.” This is perhaps the most famous quote of the great Russian saint, Seraphim of Sarov. Many of his icons have this saying on them. I’ve never met anyone who didn’t like it. On the other hand, I think there are many who do not understand it. And understanding what he meant can take you to the very heart of Orthodoxy.

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Homily by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill at the Liturgy in the Kiev Caves Lavra, Celebrating the Baptism of Russia

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

We have counted off 1025 years of our common history which has developed under the cross of St. Andrew the First Called. And today the whole plenitude of the Orthodox Church, through her primates, bishops and priests, has assembled here, in the Kiev Laura of the Caves, to thank God before this very cross of St. Andrew for the fact that the apostle’s prophecy about Orthodoxy in our lands, about the truth shining forth in them, has come true.

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

Thoughts of Protopriest Victor Ilienko of Blessed Memory on the Feast Day of St Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles

Protopriest Victor Ilienko

Holy Prince Vladimir, seeking the good jewel, obtained the most invaluable of all jewels—Christ Himself. As did the man from the Gospel, who, finding a field with buried treasure, sells everything he had and buys the field, so did Prince Vladimir, obtaining Christ, abandoned his pagan lifestyle with all its pleasures.

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

Homily on the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost – All Saints of Russia

Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko)

Brothers and sisters, today the Holy Church opens before us our native heaven—all the Saints who shone in Russia. They shine as bright stars before us. And the first among them is St. Vladimir. He was a gifted military leader, statesman, a man of penetrating mind and strong will. The political situation among the Russian Slavs required just such a man. Many Slavic tribes were living at that time on the shores of the Dnieper River, and all of them had already been influenced by the Christian message—the dawn of a new life was approaching.

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Twenty-first Instruction of Abba Dorotheos. A Commentary on certain expressions of St. Gregory concerning the holy martyrs.

Abba Dorotheos

It is good, O brethren, to sing the words of the holy God-bearers, for they strive everywhere to instruct us in everything which leads to the enlightenment of our souls. From the words we sing on the feast day, we should always come to understand the meaning of the what is being commemorated, whether it be a feast of the Lord, of the holy martyrs, or of the holy Fathers; in a word no matter what saint or blessed commemoration it is.

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