Archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev) People are saved in different ways, and the path to choosing monasticism also varies. When I was a student, there were three of us friends; two of them were a year below me: Viktor R. and Kolechka S. We all later chose the path of monasticism, but each of us arrived at…
Tbilisi, February 28, 2025 Photo: oc-media.org The Georgian Orthodox Church is committed to helping those who are suffering from the heavy snowfall this week. Western Georgia has been especially hit by severe snowfall, resulting in a public emergency with multiple villages isolated, buildings damaged, and several weather-related deaths reported. Infrastructure has suffered significant damage,…
Belgrade, February 28, 2025 Photo: spc.rs The vicar bishop of the Diocese of the South of the Orthodox Church in America visited the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church yesterday. His Grace Bishop Gerasim of Fort Worth and Archpriest Alessandro Margheritino, secretary to the OCA primate, were received at the Patriarchal Palace in Belgrade…
Orenburg, Orenburg Province, Russia, February 28, 2025 Photo: oren-eparh.ru The Orenburg Metropolia of the Russian Orthodox Church celebrated the canonization of a 19th-20th century ascetic saint yesterday. The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church canonized Igumen Zosima (Kartsev) at its session Russian Church canonizes ascetic, establishes feasts commemorating autocephaly and patriarchateThe Holy Synod…
Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, February 28, 2025 Pat. Porfirije with President Milorad Dodik. Photo: spc.rs His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije views the recent verdict of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina against Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska, as unconstitutional and contrary to the Dayton Agreement, believing it aims to delegitimize the…
Moscow, February 28, 2025 fedpress.ru The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) prevented a terrorist plot against His Eminence Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Simferopol and Crimea last month. Metropolitan Tikhon is also the author of the modern Russian religious classic, Несвятые святые (Everyday Saints and Other StoriesArchimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov). Everyday Saints and Other Stories. Translation…
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock Our world is a world of locked gates, bolted doors, barred windows, and guard dogs watching over our possessions. When we enter our homes, the first thing we do is lock the door behind us—to keep out strangers, to prevent anything valuable from being stolen, to ensure…
U.S.A., February 28, 2025 Photo: orthodoxtimes.com Orthodox sociologist Alexei Krindatch has published a new report, “What Orthodox Christians in the USA Want From Their Bishops,” based on a survey of about 1,100 Orthodox Christians in the spring of 2022. Participants represent four of the largest jurisdictions in America: the Orthodox Church in America, the…
With the blessing of Bishop Mitrophan of Gatchina and Luga, the wonderworking Icon of the Mother of God, “The Seeker of the Lost”, which first began to stream myrrh at the church of Marienburg (a historic district of the town of Gatchina in the Leningrad region) thirty years ago, is currently traveling through the Diocese…
Sasha. Artist: Maria Vishnyak Icons should first of all attune you to prayer. If you’re just standing in front of an icon, thinking how well it was painted (or, sadly, how poorly it was painted), that’s wrong. We must stand prayerfully in front of icons and not just stand there; and if you are able…
