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Holy Week and Pascha in Jerusalem

09 April 2007

For the Christians the greatest feast days and festival were approaching. The time of joy and sorrow was approaching. We rejoiced because of this, that we would receive the new grace of the heavenly ...

Why Would a Southern Baptist Minister Become an Orthodox Priest? (PART 2)

31 March 2007

When I became Orthodox it was not a given that I would become one day an Orthodox priest. As one bishop expressed it to me, "the difference between being an Orthodox priest and a Baptist ...

Great Lent – History, Significance, Meaning

18 March 2007

This great period of Lent before Easter is called by the Orthodox Church, Tessaracoste (Quadragesimal), which comes from the word forty (the 40 days of "fasting"). This Institute of the 40 ...

One Man’s Journey to the Orthodox Faith…

17 March 2007

If we believed in one, true faith, how could this be? Was everything open to individual interpretation? If so, why should I not just believe whatever I want to believe, and justify it in my own ...

Saint-Tikhon monastery, USA

14 March 2007

St. Tikhon's Orthodox Monastery (founded in 1905, previously St. Tikhon's Russian Orthodox Monastery) in South Canaan, Pennsylvania, is the oldest operating Orthodox monastery in North ...

A little bit about AA and the Russian Orthodox Church

13 March 2007

I heard of the AA Community some time ago, when I was still a doctor. This was over fifty years ago. At that time AA groups using the Twelve steps program were just appearing in France. In England ...

Father and Son: A Story of Two Saints

05 March 2007

Thousands mourned the death in 1923 of the popular, clairvoyant lay-elder of Moscow, Archpriest Alexey Mechev. But the Lord did not leave his spiritual children orphaned. Many had already discovered ...

The blood of martyrs is the life-giving seed of Christianity!

19 February 2007

“The 20th century – the century of 1000 years since the baptism of Russia – also became the century marked by the most severe and cruel persecutions of the Russian Orthodox Church. Churches and ...

The Incredible Story of a Missionary

14 February 2007

Baptized Roman Catholic, later becoming an Episcopal priest and missionary, and three years ago having been received with his family into the Holy Orthodox Church, he is a zealous Orthodox ...

Being Orthodox – how I believed in God

30 December 2006

The present-day situation in Russia is far from being simple. After years of atheism - imposed from the authorities - many people lost hope and faith, many - in search of some spiritual life - rushed ...

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