Please pray for the newly-reposed Servant of God Peter, (Peter Alexeevich Overt), father of four children in service to the Church: Priest Serge Overt in...
A Brief History of Christmas John Steele Gordon. Wall Street Journal. (Eastern edition). New York, N.Y.: Dec 21, 2007. pg. A.19 Christmas famously "comes but...
Russkaya Liniya has a very lengthy (but fascinating) account of the decades-long efforts of the late Fr. Roman of Boston to help bring about the return of the...
Greetings to everyone on the feast. This is a really cool link that provides a lot of useful information: http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/ Fr. John...
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/storyprint.asp?StoryID=652698 Monks gain support in fight over wind project Historic preservationists say Mohawk Valley...
Dear All, Greeting you with the Nativity of our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ! And, Merry Christmas! Today I had the good fortune to be told about a...
Putin donated $1 million to restore an Orthodox cemetery in Sainte-Genevive-des-Bois, France. If I am not mistaken, in France (and in other countries in...
Is there a problem with shirts that are popular today in Orthodox camps and other organizations that have designs that include icons or crosses? If so, why? ...
Children can be baptized anytime after birth. The Russian tradition that the mother does not attend the baptism actually stems from the fact that the children...
Dear All, I'm trying to maintain a blog.. I'm currently using Blogger, but every picture uploaded goes to the top of the page and it's very time-consuming to...
... camps ... I'm not a fan of these kind of things. Would you take an icon from your icon corner, tape in on your belly, drop food on it, then throw it in...
http://www.wnd.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59644 ... Kosovo and unintended consequences ... Posted: January 12, 2008 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Joseph...
I hope someone can help me with this one. I know a Russian lady who attends my parish church, and last week, we had tea together at her house. We were...
It says "make the evil [ones] good". In other words, transform evil people into good people. [Be] With God, Archpriest Ilya Gorsky ... From: Meg Lark...
... Thanks, Father -- believe it or not, this *just* came into my inbox, though the time stamp says you sent it an hour ago. Kissing your right hand, Meg...
I remember reading somewhere that a monk once asked a woman who was wearing an icon t-shirt, "How am I supposed to venerate that icon?" Benjamin Bryant...
Europaica 135 Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia: Message to the Participants of the 30th Meeting of Taiz in Geneva Dear brothers and sisters, I...
I am not sure that I understand this. That seems a very ecumenist statement for the MP. I am not qualified to say, but it seems that the message here is...
... [ml] I thought he was just being very cautious in addressing the group. I didn't see anything to indicate that he thought ecumenism was a good thing at...
I took to this in a very different when I was reading it. It seemed to me that our Patriarch was speaking for 'those who have ears to hear,' while writing a...
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080122/97524018.html Remains found in Urals likely to belong to tsar's children 15:21 | 22/ 01/ 2008 YEKATERINBURG, January 22 (RIA...
Moscow - The Russian Orthodox Church has rejected an invitation from the Vatican for the Patriarch of Moscow and primate of the Russian church to visit Rome,...