Elder Cleopa: “…May you have great piety to Her because blessed is the house and the family that venerate the icon of Mother of God…”

“God receives the repentance of the man until his last breath, if he returns to Him from the heart and honors His Mother. May you have great piety to Her because blessed is the house and the family that venerate the icon of Mother of God. May you read Her Akathist and Paraklesis every day....

Patriarch Pavle of Serbia: “…Anyway, the most important thing is that we shouldn’t become wolves…”

“The longer we advance in life, the harder it will be for us. Christ knew how the times would be and promptly let us know about them, so as to prepare ourselves and not to live like most of the people who head towards the abyss. It should be to our endeavor to be “true”...

The Ecumenism – A Great Temptation (Interview with Father George Calciu)

Concerning the compromises inside the Church…today there is the very idea that the Ecumenism is a necessity in the Ecclesial space. What do you think about it? - If we obey to the devil, does this mean that it is a necessity? It's not a necessity, but a sin, a very great temptation, a heresy....

Father Daniel Sysoyev, the New Martyr: On the Spiritual Kinship (Sermon)

“In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit! In a spiritual sense, people are all relatives. There is a carnal relationship -the relationship between parents and children, the relationship between husband and wife, a relationship among the people, based on flesh. On the other hand, there is also spiritual...

Father Daniel Sysoyev: Sermon about Unity

“In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit!" The Apostle Paul, from the prison, writes an epistle(a message- послание) to the Ephesians in which he says: “I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been...

New Martyr Basil of Optina: “Beauty saves the world – wrote Dostoevsky. Beauty – this is God…”

“Beauty saves the world - wrote Dostoevsky. Beauty - this is God. Though we have examined our lives, no matter how much dissected it into its component parts, so as to understand its mechanism, life in its entirety is always beautiful, divine and not known until the end, neither its beauty is known. Though we...

Archbishop Justinian Chira: From his famous quotations…

“Through patience you get to love your brother, to forgive your brother, to respect your brother, to see that he is better than you, to see that he is more beautiful than you, to see that he is more hardworking than you. Through patience you see these all. You only then get up”...    ...

Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov: The earthly life – it doesn’t interrupt its wander neither for an hour. Come on, let’s go: all of a sudden the gates of eternity will be opened and we will be lost in its unimaginable space…

Letter 178 Counsels for the young new married couple: the earthly life - journey From my solitude, with the picturesque banks of the Volga, the magnificent and gorgeous Volga. I congratulate you with the good deeds you have done in your family for which, with a parental heart I am together with you, so happy...