April 30, 2025, St. Ignatius (Dimitry Alexandrovich Brianchaninov in the world) was born on February 5, 1807, on his father’s estate in the village of Pokrov in the Vologda Province. His mother gave birth to him after a prolonged infertility, by her fervent prayers and travels to the surrounding holy places. The boy spent[…]

  April 14, 2025, beginning on the evening of Palm Sunday and continuing through the evening of Holy Tuesday, the Orthodox Church observes a special service known as the Service of the Bridegroom. Each evening service is the Matins or Orthros service of the following day (e.g. the service held on Sunday evening is the[…]

  You have slain the snares of the soul and the fleshly passions with the sword of abstinence. You have suppressed thoughts of transgression with the silence of instruction, and with the streams of your tears, you have watered the entire desert and brought forth for us the fruits of repentance. Therefore, we celebrate your[…]

Friday, April 25, 2025, On Friday of Renewal Week we celebrate the consecration of the temple of our Most Holy Lady, the Mother of God of the Life-giving Spring. Furthermore, we commemorate the supra-natural miracles wrought by the Mother of God therein. We commemorate today the manifold great miracles that surpass all nature that were[…]

  April 7, 2025, Saint Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and Apostle to America was born as Vasily Ivanovich Belavin on January 19, 1865 into the family of Ioann Belavin, a rural priest of the Toropetz district of the Pskov diocese. His childhood and adolescence were spent in the village in direct contact with peasants and[…]

  March 31, 2025, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with[…]