Материалы 15 августа 2014 г.

Если научиться искренне радоваться Божиим творениям, то в душе будет рождаться славословие Господу за эту земную красоту. И Господь тут же откликнется, наполнив душу неземной радостью – радостью о Нем.

«Вы что-нибудь понимаете, Ватсон?» – «Еще не до конца, мистер Холмс. Пока ясно только одно: ведьмы любят читать Псалтирь».

15 августа 2014 года исполняется 100 лет со дня рождения великого румынского старца, исповедника, мученика за веру архимандрита Арсения (Папачока). Предлагаем читателям небольшую подборку изречений старца.

Достаточно знать дату распада государства, чтобы понять, что к чему. И политическая система, и экономика, и общество, и даже армия в 1917-м вошли в полосу кризиса. И это при том, что в Германии и Австрии ситуация во многом сложилась не менее отчаянная, и Антанта, включая Россию, шла к неизбежной победе.

Эти слова из Книги пророка Исаии — и земля откроет поглощенную ею кровь и уже не скроет убитых своих (Ис. 26, 21) — вспоминаются каждый раз, когда мы говорим о христианских мучениках ХХ века, о новомучениках и исповедниках Российских, когда узнаем новые имена, новые подробности их подвига.

A video posted on YouTube shows several dozen people entering the church holding Ukrainian flags and symbols of the far-right party Svoboda (Freedom) and the Radical Party led by Ukrainian MP Oleg Lyashko.

In the expert’s view, these museums should contain exhibits discovered on the territory of one or another church during archaeological excavation work.

Excerpts from his diary supplement our understanding of how St. Nicholas related to Buddhism. Here observations are also marked by the fact that they were made by a practicing missionary.

The series also digs into inter-Muslim disputes, between Sunni and Shia, between Turks and Arabs, that can shed some light on the endless Muslim-on-Muslim violence that plagues the Middle East to this day. And it clearly shows that persecution of Christians, genocide of Christians, abuse of Christian children and women, and so on, is nothing new.

The writer and Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn predicted the current situation in Ukraine almost half a century ago

Of the tens of thousands of Japanese converted to Orthodoxy thanks to his labors, a significant portion were former Buddhists, and amongst his assistants were former Buddhist monks (Bhikkhu), for example, Paul Savabe. The saint studied Buddhism during the first eight years of his time in Japan, when, in his words, he “strove with all diligence to study Japanese history, religion, and the spirit of the Japanese people.”

Chairman of the Synodal Information Department of the Russian Orthodox Church Vladimir Legoida has regarded the cases of damage and destruction of churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which took place in Lugansk and Horlivka in recent days, as breaking the hope for peace.

Through joint efforts of the Diocese of Odessa and the Public Council at the Odessa Regional State Administration, over 15 tons of humanitarian aid have been collected and delivered to the Svyatogorsk Lavra where the aid will be distributed among hundreds of refugees as well as civilian residents of Donbass and the Lugansk region.