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BY HIS EMINENCE ARCHBISHOP TIKHON FIRST HIERARCH OF THE RUSSIAN TRUE ORTHODOX CHURCH 2022, Omsk, Siberia In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Today, on the second week after Pentecost, our Church…
Commemorated June 9, the day of St Columba’s repose in 597. “While the blessed man was living in Iona, his holy countenance one day was lighted up suddenly with strange transports of joy; and raising his eyes to heaven…
By Dr. Vladimir Moss St. Maximus the Greek was an Athonite monk who was sent, according to Sir Steven Runciman, “by the Patriarch Theoleptus I to Russia in response to [Great Prince] Vassily III’s request for a skilled librarian. Maximus,…
door bisschop Philaretos Het was het feest van de Heilige Huurlingen Cosmas en Damian (1/14 november) van 1992 en een zaterdag. Het weer was grijs en het leek alsof er regen op komst was. Ik was al 6 jaar priester. Ik was heel…
From the hymnology of the feast of the 40 Holy Martyrs of Sebaste Our times are wicked and difficult! However, the forty Holy Martyrs of Sebaste that we celebrate call us to carry the present times like true soldiers of…
Isidore was an Egyptian by birth and the son of a prominent family and kinsman of the Alexandrian Patriarchs Theophilus and Cyril. Having studied all the secular disciplines, he renounced worldly riches and glories and devoted himself completely to the…
“Recollect the fall of the strong, that thou mayest remain humble under thy virtues. And think of the heavy sins of those who fell and repented, and of the praise and honour they received afterward so that thou mayest acquire…
-St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco
Now we are to examine another fact and dogma, neglected by most people, but in my judgment well worth inquiring into. To whom was that Blood offered that was shed for us, and why was it shed? I mean the…