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[English Edition / Church History]

St. Michael Antiochian Orthodox Church to mark 100th anniversary Sunday

“Our church history is a proud one in its 100 years of existence in Monessen and serving the Mon Valley for the Orthodox faithful and friends. It has withstood good and bad times, the wars of the world, a stock market crash, and many more adversities, but will continue to prosper in the years to come with our friends and neighbors in this Mon Valley area.”

[English Edition / Church History]

Bishop Nikolai (Ivan Ilyich Karpov) of London

Bishop Nikolai was born on 13 Oct 1891, to a pious and faithful Old Believer family in Siberia. His grandmother, frightened that the newborn might not live, had him baptized without recourse to a priest. Worried about his irregular baptism, she made a vow to God that her grandson would grow up as an Orthodox Christian.

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

The Founders of the Orthodox West: On Recovering the Spiritual Identity of Western Europe

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

Who are the great historical figures of Western Europe who define its identity? The answers of the secular world to this question are quite different from those of the Church. The Western secular world exalts secular figures like Charlemagne, Charles V, or Napoleon as “great Europeans”. But all three of these left Europe full of graves. Indeed, Charlemagne and Charles V were renowned for their massacres and, as for Napoleon, he declared that he would have had Christ hanged as a fanatic.

[English Edition / Church History]

Miracles of the Mother of God. Syria

When Christians are in need of quick and sure help, they have recourse to the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, who has saved people in Orthodox countries so many times that an entire history book could be compiled to describe them all.

[English Edition / Churches and Monasteries]

Diveyevo Obediences: Photographs from the Early 20th Century

On June 14/27 Diveyevo Convent honors its own saints. The pre-revolutionary day-to-day life of the monastery and its sisters were preserved in photographs, and it we gladly present these unique pictures here.

[English Edition / Church History]

The Christian Parthenon and St. Paul

Nun Nectaria (McLees)

St. Paul was the ﬁrst Christian missionary to preach in the celebrated intellectual stronghold of the Greco-Roman world. Indeed, Athens still reigned as the university of the Empire; she lived on her reputation as the city of the philosophers, and her streets were ﬁlled with the arguments of Platonists, Stoics, and Epicureans. Other intellectual centers had arisen in Rome, Alexandria, Antioch and Tarsus, but Athens remained indisputably the queen.

[English Edition / Church History]

Monophysite Vanity

Gabe Martini

"The flow of history confirms the reality of the Gospel: the Church is filled to overflowing with sinners. Does their presence in the Church reduce, violate, or destroy her sanctity? Not in the least! For her Head—the Lord Christ, and her Soul—the Holy Spirit, and her divine teaching, her mysteries, and her virtues, are indissolubly and immutably holy." --Archimandrite Justin Popovich

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

A Day to Remember Our Fathers

Gabe Martini

The Council of Nicaea is often the victim of ridicule and historical revisionism. From the grammatical nightmares of Dan Brown novels to the revisionist and anti-ecclesial speculations of Protestant or non-Christian historians, it has certainly become a whipping boy of early Christian history. The problem with many of the critiques of this council is that they are based upon both faithless skepticism and a de-incarnational ecclesiology. Skepticism regarding both the promises of Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit, as well as a vision of the Church that would have both Arius and Athanasius be equally “fathers” of our one, true faith.

[English Edition / Church History]

Sermon: Sunday of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council

The Church commemorates the fathers of the First Ecumenical Council, today, that were victorious over one of these wolves that attacked the unity of the Church. This attack came from a priest of the Church of Alexandria by the name of Arius.

[English Edition / Church History]

Christopher Dekki: A (very) rough guide to the Christians of the Levant

"I challenge you to let this be the first step to understanding the depth of the Middle East’s diversity"

[English Edition / Church History]

A Bit Of Ancient History Dead Sea Scrolls In Tax Court

The Dead Sea Scrolls were one of the most fascinating discoveries of the twentieth century. They provided new grist for generations of biblical scholars like the recently deceased Geza Vermes who translated the Scrolls into English. Not surprisingly the name of Dr. Vermes never came up in US tax litigation, but not so the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls were the subject of tax litigation in the early sixties when the First Circuit upheld a decision of the Tax Court.

[English Edition / Church History]

Turkey's Continuing Siege: Remembering the Fall of Constantinople

Nearly half a millennium later, the government of the Republic of Turkey continues to celebrate the fall of the city, today's Istanbul, with religious, sports, and media festivities. Kemalist governments long understood the fall of Constantinople as a signature event for Turkish nationalism.

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

Emperor Constantine the Great (306–337). The Importance of His Faith in the History of the Church

V. Rev. Fr. Thaddaeus Hardenbrook

St. Constantine the Great, Equal to the Apostles, First Christian Emperor of Rome, builder of Constantinople and founder the Byzantine Empire. He is a military victor, effective ruler and glorified saint. There is no doubt that his contribution to world history and that of the Orthodox Church is indeed spectacular.

[English Edition / Sretensky Monastery]

The Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God

Commemorated May 21/June 3, June 23/July 6, August 26/September 8

The grateful Muscovites built the Sretensky Monastery on the site of the meeting of the miracle-working icon which took place on August 26, 1395, “That the great works of God may never be forgotten.” After remaining for 242 years near the Klyazma River, the Vladimir Icon of Theotokos was taken to Moscow and placed in the Kremlin Dormition Cathedral. Thanks to its grace-filled protection, Moscow was spared in 1408 from Khan Edigey, in 1451 from the Nogay prince, Mazovshi, and in 1459 from his father Khan Sedi-Ahmet.

[English Edition / Church History]

An Amazing Story of Betrayal and Repentance

Nun Magdalena (Nekrasova)

I had already left the house when I met Bishop Mstislav at the door. He was head of the Vologda diocese at the time. When he heard that I had come home for two days he began to forcefully persuade me to go the Central House of Culture, where that evening one anti-religious activist was supposed to be giving a talk. This was the former priest, Chertkov. I had no desire whatsoever to go there, especially since my spiritual father had advised me never to listen to or read all that anti-religious nonsense, which only sullies the soul. But the more I resisted the more decisively the bishop insisted that at least one of us needs to hear one of these presentations and know what methods they are using. Finally, I had to submit.

[English Edition / Church History]

Lutherans Write the Patriarch: How the “German Orthodox Church” Almost Happened

Gabe Martini

Like Luther, Melanchthon believed that their “reformed” faith — as a “peeling away” of the numerous developments and supposed abuses of the Latin Church over the centuries — would be virtually one and the same as the faith of the “Greeks” in the east. To that end, the leading “Lutheran” theologians of the day had their Augsburg Confession translated into Greek, and sent with their new-found friend in Demetrius back to the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

[English Edition / Church History]

Reunion not a “Return to Rome”: On Catholic-Orthodox Ecumenism

Earlier this month, Christopher Warner at the Catholic World Report interviewedArchimandrite Robert Taft, S.J., a Byzantine Catholic priest and professor emeritus of Oriental Liturgy at the Pontifical Oriental Institute, about Catholic-Orthodox relations and the prospects for future unity.

[English Edition / Church History]

Science Shines New Light on Shroud of Turin’s Age

While questions have been raised about his methodology, an Italian researcher’s novel use of test procedures suggests the shroud is indeed 2,000 years old.

[English Edition / Church History]

The USA, the New Home of Diveevo Convent

Tatiana Kashina

Some forty miles from the busy commercial center of New York, next to the town of Nanuet, is the convent of Novo Diveevo, a monastery known throughout Orthodox America. Here is an original portrait of St Seraphim of Sarov, painted during his lifetime. People who have seen this portrait say that his gaze seems to pass right through their soul, illuminating its dark corners.

[English Edition / Church History]

Grandfather Ivan

Liudmila Selenskaya

His mother Anna was devout, shrewd and very stern. They respected her and were a little afraid of her in the village. It was believed that all her three sons returned from war thanks to her ardent prayer. There was a loss in every family apart from the Zelenukhins. Grandfather was close to death many times, but miraculously survived.

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