100th anniversary of episcopal consecration of St. Luke of Simferopol

Posted 2023-06-01 10:10:19 by: Сард

The anniversary was festively celebrated beginning on May 29 in Penjikent, Tajikistan, where the Holy Hierarch was consecrated in ...

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Romanian Orthodox diaspora: more than 1,550 churches and monasteries

Posted 2023-06-01 09:00:55 by: Сард

Since 2015, the Romanian Orthodox Church has commemorated the last Sunday in May as the Day of Romanians Everywhere, “a unique day with profound spiritual importance, reaffirming the Christian roots and traditions of the Romanian ...

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OCA and ROCOR primates concelebrate at St. Tikhon’s Monastery

Posted 2023-06-01 08:39:47 by: Сард

Met. Tikhon offered warm greetings to Met. Nicholas and his delegation and presented him with an icon diptych. Met. Nicholas, in turn, presented Met. Tikhon with a Panagia ...

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Macedonian and Serbian Archbishoprics in N. Macedonia to formally unite next week

Posted 2023-06-01 08:15:41 by: Сард

The Macedonian Church’s decades-long schism was healed in May 2022, and on June 5, it was formally granted autocephaly by the Serbian ...

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Serbian faithful processing 700 miles in support of persecuted Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Posted 2023-06-01 08:08:09 by: Сард

The participants will maintain a strict fast throughout the procession, with the constant reading of the Psalter. They plan to cover about 12 miles a ...

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Nalyvaiko’s Faith and the Decline of Rzeczpospolita. Part 2

Posted 2023-06-01 06:27:59 by: Сард

Alexey GrigorenkoIn the late eighteenth century, the once great and powerful Rzeczpospolita disappeared from the political map of ...

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Nalyvaiko’s Faith and the Decline of Rzeczpospolita. Part 1

Posted 2023-06-01 06:26:15 by: Сард

Alexey GrigorenkoThe Jesuits convinced the king that in order to unify the nation and naturally overcome the national differences between the Poles, Lithuanians and Russians one should start with the unification of ...

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State Department report highlights plight of Albanian Orthodox Church

Posted 2023-05-31 13:08:38 by: Сард

The U.S. Department of State recently published its 2022 report on religious freedom in Albania, including much information about the Albanian Orthodox ...

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Rublev’s Trinity Icon will be exhibited in Christ the Savior Cathedral

Posted 2023-05-31 11:31:17 by: Сард

The 15th-century icon initially found its home on the iconostasis of the Holy Trinity Cathedral at the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, founded by St. Sergius of Radonezh in the 14th ...

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Serbian hierarch appeals to Secretary of State on violence in Kosovo

Posted 2023-05-31 11:20:38 by: Сард

In his letter, Bp. Irinej noted that in the recent confrontation, the KFOR forces sided with the aggressor—the Kosovo Albanian ...

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The Arian Heresy: How It Arose, and Who Then Used It For Political Purposes

Posted 2023-05-28 06:26:14 by: Сард

Marina BorisovaSince the time of the First Ecumenical Council, the Church has been struggling with this disease, but it keeps coming up again and ...

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How To Invent a Love Bomb

Posted 2023-05-27 05:15:53 by: Сард

Metropolitan Luke’s wartime notesMetropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and MelitopolI decide everything, here and now. And whether good or evil, hate or love will rule this day in the world depends upon me, upon each one of ...

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The Secrets of the Protection Church in the Village of Ivan’kovo

Posted 2023-05-26 06:25:44 by: Сард

Part 2. The story of a blind cinema operatorElena DeshkoDid the people of Ivan’kovo notice a special kind of divine admonition in the fact that these two elderly people, a man and his wife, who were screening movies in a former church for decades, looking at the screen in front of the altar and helping others to do the same, suddenly became blind together, at the same ...

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The Secrets of the Protection Church in the Village of Ivan’kovo

Posted 2023-05-26 06:23:39 by: Сард

Part 1. When the church was no longer needed, the well dried upElena DeshkoAnd here I am, standing on the stage with the school choir, and, as I look up, I see a wreath of soft cherubic faces showing through the white ceiling paint, as if through a white ...

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Homily on the Ascension of the Lord

Posted 2023-05-25 07:13:01 by: Сард

St. John of KronstadtSo, the Lord ascended from us to heaven—in order to open the doors of heaven to us—for an unhindered entrance ...

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We Must Remember Our Roots—the Holy Gospel

Posted 2023-05-24 11:19:08 by: Сард

His Holiness Patriarch KirillToday we celebrate the feast of the Equals-to-the-Apostles Sts. Cyril and Methodius—those who, in fact, created our nation’s root ...

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“Exalting the Eternal Pascha”

Posted 2023-05-24 07:25:03 by: Сард

On the Apodosis of Pascha some brethren of the Moscow Sretensky Monastery have answered the question of how to preserve Paschal ...

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The Apodosis of Pascha

Posted 2023-05-24 06:13:07 by: Сард

The day of the leavetaking of Pascha was the last day in the life of Jesus Christ on earth, when the risen Lord appeared to His disciples in order to say His final words about the Kingdom of ...

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“How Can I Not Venerate St. Nicholas? He Saved My Life”

Posted 2023-05-23 07:29:51 by: Сард

Miracles of St. Nicholas in the Backwoods of Ryazan. Part 2. KasimovArchpriest Sergei PravdoliubovVasily Ivanovich began to call for help—but there were no sounds except for some quiet wheezing. No one could hear him. It was late afternoon, and there was no one on the river ...

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Why Don’t Christians Repent Today?

Posted 2023-05-23 06:51:02 by: Сард

Archimandrite Gregorios (Estephan)Our land is becoming devoid of Christ and His true anointed ones; this land, whose soil was sanctified by the unceasing worship of the Lord and His Christ, has become the land of apostasy. ...

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Knowing the Lord in the Breaking of the Bread

Posted 2023-04-22 06:29:10 by: Сард

A Homily for Bright SaturdaySt. Innocent of KhersonThe holy bread is being broken now, according to the clear instructions of the Church read in the prayer at its consecration, in memory of the Resurrection of ...

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Nun Georgia (Bestauty) on Pascha and the Feeling of Your Motherland

Posted 2023-04-21 07:33:13 by: Сард

Nun Georgia (Bestauty)After the service, tired and happy, we would go home in small groups. The poor and empty streets of Tskhinvali seemed to us more beautiful than any foreign ...

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Bright Friday, the Life-Giving Spring

Posted 2023-04-21 07:16:23 by: Сард

SynaxarionWe commemorate today the manifold great miracles that surpass all nature that were wrought in this Church by the Mother of ...

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On the Opening of the Gates of Paradise: Bright Thursday

Posted 2023-04-20 07:21:54 by: Сард

Metropolitan Vladimir (Ikim) of Tashkent and Central AsiaThe Resurrected Christ became the guide of the people saved by Him along the bright road to ...

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A Paschal Miracle. Real Stories That Occurred on the Feast of the Radiant Resurrection of Christ

Posted 2023-04-20 07:04:41 by: Сард

Pascha is a time of miracles: big and small, obvious to everyone and clear only to an individual ...

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