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Optina Martyrs

10 June 2006

In the year 1993 the whole Orthodox world was shocked by a tragic event, which had happened in Optina Hermitage: three inhabitants of the monastery were brutely murdered on Easter night. Their names ...

Father Arseny: Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father

09 June 2006

What happened? Nobody could understand, but suddenly the gentle and weak Father Arseny straightened himself up and slammed Ivan on the arm so hard that the knife fell from his hand. Then he pushed ...

The Russian Church considers fears of numerical combinations, including 6 June 2006, ‘futile and silly’

05 June 2006

Fears of the end of the world occur not infrequently: people were panicking about it in 1000, in 1492 (7000 from the creation of the Earth according to the Byzantium system), in 1666, in 2000. But it ...

Who is standing behind the stormy campaign around the Da Vinci Code

31 May 2006

The Da Vinci Code is a typical conspiracy work with the principal aim to say that the world is ruled by secret lodges. There is too much fantasy in Brown’s novel. But the very story of its promotion ...

Mercy House in Brooklyn

31 May 2006

The story started in December of 2002, when into the Church of New Martyrs or Russia in Brooklyn where I was serving at the time, came absolutely non-orthodox young woman and ask permission to speak ...

The Fasting Rules in the Orthodox Church

26 May 2006

The Church's traditional teaching on fasting is not widely known or followed in our day. For those Orthodox Christians who are seeking to keep a more disciplined fast, the following information ...

Symbolism of Colors in Icon

25 May 2006

Colour plays a special role in icons because it is a symbolic language which manifests the light that is inside objects and human faces rather than their colouring. The source of this light is ...

The council of bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia concludes

24 May 2006

The Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia convened from May 15-19 in San Francisco, presided over by His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus

Symeon the Stylite of the Mountain

24 May 2006

Saint Symeon, the "New Stylite," was born in Antioch; John his father was from Edessa, and Martha his mother was from Antioch. From his childhood he was under the special guidance of Saint ...

Questions and answers on the issues of Church and society

19 May 2006

I would hardly base my opinions on the life of the Orthodox Church on Benz's books, nor would I be troubled by it. Indeed, the Church is "heavenly minded," as the Church's ...

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