http://www.pravoslavie.ru/ Ïðàâîñëàâèå.Ru — ðóññêèé ïðàâîñëàâíûé èíôîðìàöèîííûé ðåñóðñ. http://www.pravoslavie.ru/xml/b100x100a.gif http://www.pravoslavie.ru/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:33:02 +0400 (c) Áëèíîâ Èâàí 9e14e6f9753cb8fc53f4ec573d736424 http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51536.htm Since 1988, St. Petersburg has yearly observed a cultural and spiritual tradition of serving a pannikhida (requiem) for Feodor Dostoevsky on the date of his death. 1988 was the millennium celebration of the Baptism of Russia. Orthodox Christianity Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:20:13 +0400 c2c6993c9fb3fc8595bcf88d12c9013c http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51535.htm Perhaps we feel some sympathy with the elder son. After all, he never wasted his substance, he did remain loyal to the Father. The problem is that the elder son's service was a form of slavery, he did not stay with the Father out of love, but out of self-interest, in expectation of a reward. This was not love freely given, but an obligation fulfilled in the hope of the payment of the hireling. Orthodox Christianity Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:42:49 +0400 f5e18331901368c943f99e0f731f9233 http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/44848.htm According to the holy fathers, the younger son could also be an image of all fallen mankind and of every sinner. The younger son’s inheritance is God’s gifts, with which every person is endowed, especially Christians. The most supreme gifts of God are the mind and heart, and especially the grace of the Holy Spirit given to every Christian. Orthodox Christianity Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:36:57 +0400 67849be33bd8d4d382de739b42886ad2 http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51534.htm As the month of January draws to a close, the Church calls us on the 30th to celebrate the Feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs: St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory the Theologian and St. John Chrysostom. In celebrating these three great teachers of the Church, the Church in its hymnody refers to them as “harps of the Spirit,” “rays of light,” “scented flowers of Paradise,” “instruments of grace.” Orthodox Christianity Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:27:42 +0400 cae109114ab0a9dc3912505d3a95451b http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51466.htm Whenever the theme of the Church’s position during the first two Soviet decades is discussed, attention is usually concentrated on the tragic side of her life; thus parish life, the life of ordinary worshippers, pastoral activity (Fr. Alexei Mechev perhaps being the only clergyman given scholarly attention), and traditions which have already become a thing of the past, unfortunately escape researchers' attention. All this is preserved in reminiscences of old parishioners, whose number is naturally and inexorably depleting. Orthodox Christianity Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:10:36 +0400 27fd7129200803c63615a684db4dc0c8 http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51520.htm The prayer may be said to capsulize the teaching of this eloquent Holy Father of the Church, who left several volumes of spiritually instructive writings which merited high praise from his illustrious contemporaries, St. Basil the Great and his brother St. Gregory of Nyssa. The life of St. Ephraim is perhaps no less instructive. Orthodox Christianity Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:12:05 +0400 36fecfa9bd7e14e65e1feb9167c29ec9 http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51518.htm This is the third Orthodox Church in Pakistan. Already there are the Greek and Coptic Orthodox Churches in Pakistan. Orthodox Christianity Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:52:33 +0400 c13392cfefc503afc43cc3924b95c37b http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51512.htm Alexander Schmorell was only 25 years old when he wrote a farewell letter to his parents from his death-row cell in Munich’s Stadelheim prison: “My dear father and mother: And so, it is not to be, Divine will has me complete my earthly life today, and to enter another, which shall never end and where we will all once again meet. May this meeting be your consolation and your hope. For you this blow, unfortunately, is heavier than for me, because I will go there knowing that I served my profound conviction and the truth. For all this I face the approaching hour of my death with a peaceful conscience. Orthodox Christianity Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:13 +0400 cd342cf7f85c80b9e20edf898ca822f6 http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51508.htm Members of a Syrian convent believe many interests are seeking to sabotage their country, writes MICHAEL JANSEN in Saydnaya Orthodox Christianity Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:29:43 +0400 8dafb05c8effd0439d8744d5c7ab8745 http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51505.htm On February 24 and 25, St. Michael Antiochian Orthodox Church in Louisville, Kentucky will host the 2012 Climacus Conference, titled "Byzantium, You Are Not Forgotten." Orthodox Christianity Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:49:06 +0400 162636382fa63cd9d72799258a59d969 http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51498.htm Alfred Einstein stated: "Dostoevsky gives me more than any other thinker." Nicholas Berdyaev was professor of philosophy at the University of Moscow until he was expelled by the Communist regime in 1922. Berdyaev testified that Dostoevsky "stirred and lifted up my soul more than any other writer or philosopher has done…when I turned to Jesus Christ for the first time. Orthodox Christianity Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:23:35 +0400 658c1e22645370c3874aa5122f1fae35 http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51500.htm On February 9, 1881, Feodor Dostoevsky parted this world as his family read to him the Gospel parable of the prodigal son. This article from Orthodox America from the 100th anniversary year of Doestoevsky's death commemorates the great writer, and shows his significance to the Orthodox Church. Orthodox Christianity Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:52:51 +0400 1ce99178487085c6fd42114518a1489c http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51491.htm On February 7, 2012, the second talks between representatives the Russian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church in Lithuania were held at the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations in Moscow. Orthodox Christianity Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:51:06 +0400 a2dc51913a6336ed55483bbd4bd6fff8 http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51489.htm On February 7, 2012, the commemoration day of St. Gregory the Theologian, the Charity of St. Gregory the Theologian, with the blessing of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, established five scholarships for citizens from the far-abroad countries who come to study at the Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church Post-Graduate and Doctoral School and other educational institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church. Orthodox Christianity Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:47:39 +0400 52f25e7461770f870d623af197b733be http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51484.htm In an impressively straight forward article published in the Turkish newspaper Sabah, Engin Ardic, a well known author and journalist, castigated the way celebrations are held in Turkey for the Fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453. Orthodox Christianity Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:32:38 +0400 43bffe0f1dbc0de1ce9c1bf47a581af5 http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51482.htm The answer to this question is very important to our understanding of salvation and exactly what Christ did for us. If we look at Adam and Eve and their creation, we can see that God created them to have the promise of eternal life in paradise. Orthodox Christianity Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:55:52 +0400 f25eabf3603c15b26aa038de901debb2 http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51472.htm Many were John Chrysostom's struggles on earth, many are his crowns in heaven. He now cries out with the Apostle Paul, 'I am a sweet savour of Christ, having cleansed the whole world of the stench of error. Orthodox Christianity Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:41:22 +0400 75ac7cb7b8bda2aaf394a7cbf0c2e459 http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51459.htm A company jointly owned by a lifetime member of the International Association of Scientologists and the World Institute of Scientology Enteprises (WISE) Raila Fofanova equipped a special communications center of the regional Russian Federal Security Services (FSB) for Archangelsk province. Orthodox Christianity Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:52:29 +0400 8dcd2d46f51cf6b1e38d495307c69110 http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51444.htm Metropolitan Amvrossios of Kalavryta and Aighialeia writes, “We are particularly shocked by the fact that the Constantinople Patriarchate has thus left poor Fr. Ephraim, their own man, to his fate, and does not allow others to sympathize with his calamity either. That is, he denies the members of the universal Orthodox community, which includes the Russians, the opportunity to apply the Gospel words… to rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep (cf. Rom. 12:15). Orthodox Christianity Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:38:12 +0400 fd073a879da408f22f8d2cc2e6e2afde http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/51426.htm On Sunday, February 5, 2012, the Synaxis of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, visited the first church in the world dedicated to the saints. Orthodox Christianity Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:11:16 +0400