How not to sink like a stone
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

How not to sink like a stone

Fr. Philip LeMasters

The God-Man came to transfigure us in holiness with His gracious divine energies as the distinct persons He created us to become.

Orthodox Apostle to America, St. Herman of Alaska
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Orthodox Apostle to America, St. Herman of Alaska

An interview with historian Sergei Korsun

Sergei Korsun

St. Seraphim of Sarov and Herman of Alaska are very similar. They even entered Sarov Monastery at the same time, in 1778, and certainly knew each other personally. Only St. Seraphim remained in Sarov, while St. Herman went to the North.

St. Moses the Hungarian: “For Me Purity and Chastity Are Above All Things”
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

St. Moses the Hungarian: “For Me Purity and Chastity Are Above All Things”

Elena Detinina

Finally, the torture ceased. St. Moses was disfigured and bleeding all over. His young body withstood these torments, St. Moses would suffer physically for the rest of his life.

The St. Irenarch Cross Procession, 2025
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Churches and Monasteries

The St. Irenarch Cross Procession, 2025

Photoreport

Ekaterina Elizarova

As we neared the village of Kuchery, a blue cloud suddenly appeared over the procession and poured no less than two or three buckets of rain over everyone.

St Jacob Netsvetov the Enlightener of the Peoples of Alaska
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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St Jacob Netsvetov the Enlightener of the Peoples of Alaska

Commemorated on July 26/August 8

He learned new languages, embraced new peoples and cultures, devised another alphabet, built another church and Orthodox community, and for the next twenty years, until his health and eyesight failed, continued to be an evangelical beacon of the grace of God in southwestern Alaska.