September 26, 2025, it is a joy for me to be giving what amounts to the first ‘formal’ lecture of this blessed conference, in which our whole aim is to explore mission and missionary work, especially in practical terms which you as the youth of our Church—spread out as she is to every corner[…]

  September 17, 2025, the family is considered the first church of every believer. It is there that one learns the first steps of faith and reverence, the love of God, and the practice of virtue.  The larger church, the parish, is nothing other than the union of these smaller “domestic churches.” The more faithfully[…]

  Verily, Anna the barren, the fruitless, doth today clap her hands with joy. Let the terrestrial ones enwrap themselves with light, let the kings be happy and the priests rejoice with blessings; let the whole world celebrate; for behold, the Queen, the blameless Bride of the Father, hath sprouted from the stem of Jesse.[…]

  By His Eminence, Metropolitan Saba: September 24, 2025, much is said these days about “truth.” All people cling to their own truth, seeing it from their own perspective, whether for personal benefit or the interests of their group. Yet the Absolute Truth, God Himself, is often the most forgotten. Strangely, people still appeal to[…]

September 10, 2205, among the more common passions of our times, anger occupies a special place, not least of all because modern man has learned to masterfully justify his anger with a thousand reasons. Unfortunate circumstances, fuss and hustle and bustle, fatigue, poor health, stress… Of course, we all understand that behind such excuses stands the[…]

  By Archpriest Grigory Dyachenko I. Saint John, whose memory is now celebrated, called the Faster for his great abstinence, was the son of poor parents who wanted to make him an artisan. But even from his youth John felt a strong attraction to the ascetic life, settled with the pious monk Eusebius, and he[…]