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[English Edition / Suffering Church]

“The Lord Gave Us the War for People to Return to God”

Tikhon Kilimov, Nun Lydia Derzhavina

Nun Lydia (Derzhavina) was born in 1936. She is the widow of Archpriest John Derzhavin and the mother of eleven children. All the children in the Derzhavin family have connected their lives with the Church: three sons are priests and two daughters are matushkas. In this interview Matushka Lydia speaks about the spiritual significance of the Great Patriotic War (World War II) for the Russian people, on the severe trials that befell the Church in the twentieth century, and on contemporary temptations.

[English Edition / Church History]

The Sorrowful Path of the Wives of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia

Iulia Aksenova

The wives of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia travelled a bitter and sorrowful path. They bore a high service amidst a godless world, raising children, enduring deprivations, repression from the authorities, hunger, and poverty. How did they survive? How did they remain true to Christ? This is what our article is about.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Why do Russians insist on the name “Holy Russia”?

Nicholas Kotar

A reader of my first attempt at writing a novel noticed that I seemed to be obsessed with the idea of American exceptionalism. He was only partially right. I am, however, a fan of Russian exceptionalism. Now, before you dismiss that outright, it might be useful to consider the history of that strange, elusive idea known as “Holy Russia.”

[English Edition / Church History]

A handwritten letter of St. Seraphim to Archimandrite Anthony

In 2006, a photographic copy of a manuscript was published containing spiritual counsels written by the hand of St. Seraphim of Sarov to the then young Hieromonk Anthony, who regularly visited and sought advice from the Saint.

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

Christmas: Becoming Truly Human

Fr. Ted Bobosh

Certainly if one studies the layout of Herod’s Jerusalem temple, we get the visible, physical sense that there was a wall (several!) separating the Gentiles from God. St. Paul says, and the hymn certainly picks up this theme, that any “wall” which had separated us from God is abolished.

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

The Nativity of Christ in Orthodox Japan

Galina Besstremyannaya

“Christ is born; glorify Him! Christ comes from heaven; meet ye Him!” Orthodox hymns of the Nativity service were sung in Church Slavonic at the church in Hakodate, founded by the Russian Consulate and built in 1859.

[English Edition / Theology]

The Nativity of Christ in Chronology from the Creation of Man

Anatoly Vitvitsky

The goal of this article is to show the results of a calculation of the “5508 years” according to texts of the first translation of the lost original of ancient Hebrew Old Testament Books, made by the Israelite translators from the third to second centuries B.C. (the Septuagint) and preserved up to the twenty-first century in the Bible published by the Russian Bible Society in the Russian language.

[English Edition / Church History]

Night is Not Bright…

It was a gray morning when Fr. Vladimir was lead out of town to be shot. As the Red Army members were preparing their firearms, Fr. Vladimir leaned against the pine tree and began to sing that especially memorable irmos which had been heard by him for the last time on this earth at his last Matins: “Night is not bright for the faithless, О Christ, but for the faithful there is illumination in the sweetness of Thy words...”

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

The Relevance of Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky) Life for Our Times

Andrei Gorbachev

Nowadays in Church circles there is more and more talk that the lives of the new martyrs remain irrelevant, and the names of the majority of new martyrs and confessors of Russia are little known even to church people. That is true, and it indicates that Church-related issues are alien to the bulk of modern Russian society. This is why new martyrs’ подвиг is still incomprehensible.

[English Edition / Church History]

Speaking Painful Truth in Love: Orthodox Ecumenism and St. Justin Popovic

Phillip Calington

St. Justin was a puzzling figure during his lifetime, and remains so, more than 35 years after his repose in the Lord. He was himself never a bishop, which allowed him to speak and write even more freely and openly about the issue of ecumenism.

[English Edition / Church History]

Strength of Spirit

Baroness Rida Von Luelsdorff on the history of the white Russian emigration in Xinjiang, terrible trials, and miraculous help from St. John of Shanghai.

Olga Rozhneva, Baroness von Luelsdorff

Baroness Rida Von Liuelsdorf on the history of the white Russian emigration in Xinjiang, terrible trials, and miraculous help from St. John of Shanghai.

[English Edition / Church History]

Notes on the order of deaconesses in the Eastern Church (3rd-12th century)

Fr. Silouan Thompson

Deaconesses as a canonical order first appear in the third-century Didascalia.

[English Edition / Church History]

Who is the Author of "The Way of a Pilgrim"?

John Sanidopoulos

It has been generally believed that the book was written by an anonymous author. Various writers have been identified with its authorship, among them being Saint Theophan the Recluse or Saint Ambrose of Optina. Paisii Fedorov, abbot of Saint Michael the Archangel Monastery of Cheremis in Kazan, first published the book in 1881, and in this edition there is no indication as to who the author is.

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

How I Discovered the Tomb of the Apostle Philip

The tomb was included in a structure in which there is a platform that is reached by a marble staircase. Pilgrims, entering in the narthex, went up to the higher part of the tomb, where there was a place for prayer and they went down on the opposite side. And we saw that the marble surface of the steps was completely consumed by the steps of thousands upon thousands of people. Hence, the tomb received an extraordinary tribute of veneration.

[English Edition / Theology]

1998 Synodical Decision of the Orthodox Church of Georgia on the Chambésy and Balamand Agreements, the Branch Theory and more

Echoing the earlier decision of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia in 1983, which condemned the heresy of ecumenism, and in particular made reference to the "Branch Theory," the Decision of the Apostolic Orthodox Church of Georgia is broader in scope, touching on six different manifestations of unorthodox teachings emanating from the contemporary ecumenical movement and ecumenical involvement of the Local Orthodox Churches.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Akathist Hymn Glory to God for All Things

Either there is a God whom we trust or “we are of most men to be pitied.” I prefer to give thanks.

[English Edition / Church and State]

Not peace, but a Sword: The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and the War in Vietnam

Dmitry P. Anashkin

The war in Vietnam became the largest military conflict of the “Cold War” period. The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia could not but react to such a massive collision, both because on one hand it affected practically the entire world, and on the other hand because many from its flock were involved directly in combat as citizens of one or the other side.

[English Edition / Church History]

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill's 70th birthday

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On November 20, 2016 His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia turns seventy years old.

[English Edition / Church History]

Uncovering the story of an icon given to the son of the Tsar

Margo Oganesian

Christie’s specialist Margo Oganesian describes the four-month process to establish the true significance of a 17th-century icon and its links to the heir to the Russian throne. The extremely rare icon is offered in the Russian Art sale on 28 November

[English Edition / Church History]

Born Twice: a Story of Patient Endurance

Natalia Prokofieva

aving passed through the meat grinder that was Stalin’s gulag, experienced hunger and sickness, and been buried alive in the village cemetery, Irina Ivanovna withstood it all and helped her friends and family get through life’s difficulties.

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