Poiana Teiului, Neamț Country, Romania, March 27, 2025 Photo: Atitudini On February 8, the abbot of the Orthodox Church in America’s Monastery of the Holy Archangel Michael in Cañones New Mexico participated in a conference at Petru Vodă Monastery in Romania. Abbot Silouan (Lightle) gave a talk entitled, “The Passion of the Romanian Saints…
St. Benedict of Nursia The Benediktbeuern Monastery, located in southern Germany at the foot of the Bavarian Alps, is one of the oldest and most renowned monasteries in the country. It was founded in the years 739–740. Its original name was Buron. For over 1,200 years, the relics of St. Benedict of Nursia, Founder of…
Photo by: Sergei Gapon/kp.ru “You know how it happens sometimes… A person does everything so that no one will love him. As if that weren’t enough—he does it in such a way that, when he dies, no one can even say anything good about him. But God is so abundantly merciful that He brings…
Photo: Pravmir.ru This cry of the soul about the state of modern youth, though written specifically for Russians, well applies to nearly every modern developed society in a post Christian world. At one time it was considered that the Russian people are the biggest readers in the world. Indeed, compared to modern times, there…
There is no living knowledge of Christ without the cross.—St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)Ignatius (Brianchaninov), bishop of the Caucasus and Stavropol, St. “>St. Ignatius (Brianchininov) Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me (Mk. 8:34). We cannot follow after Christ, Who carried the Cross to Golgotha, without the…
South Canaan, Pennsylvania, March 24, 2025 Photo: St. Tikhon’s Seminary An historic first took place at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in South Canaan, Pennsylvania, this past week, with the celebration of the Presanctified Liturgy in the former cell of St. Nikolai (Velimirović). The great saint of America served in various capacities at St….
Maysville, Missouri, March 24, 2025 Photo: bigwhitestar.com Punks to Monks, a new book from St. Nicholas Press, covers the history of Death to the World, a ‘zine launched by Orthodox monks in the 1990s to bring the truth of holy Orthodoxy to the youth lost in the punk subculture. The publication tells the story of…
Waymart, Pennsylvania, March 24, 2025 Photo: gofundme.com The Monastery of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk in Waymart, Pennsylvania, the oldest Orthodox monastery in America, founded by the future Patriarch St. Tikhon of Moscow in 1905, is asking for help to renovate the community trapeza used by monastery parishioners and build a new trapeza for the…
Tirana, March 24, 2025 Photo: ekirikas.com The new primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church maintains the same position that was formulated under his predecessor regarding the Patriarchate of Constantinople granting a tomos of autocephaly to the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine.” His Eminence John of Korçë was elected Archbishop of the Albanian Church on…
Stragari, Šumadija and Western Serbia, Serbia, March 25, 2025 Photo: eparhija-sumadijska.org. A beloved abbess from the Serbian Orthodox Church departed to the Lord last week. On Friday, March 21, Abbess Salafaila of the Holy Annunciation Monastery in Stragari, 55 miles south of Belgrade, peacefully reposed at the age of 85, reports the Serbian Orthodox…
