Deacon Sergei Geruk
My first encounter with the Pochaev Lavra took place back in Soviet times. At that time, I was still a young Soviet journalist, far from faith and the Church. It was as though I beheld with my own eyes this very “Holy Russia”: waves of humanity swaying between the blue and sky-blue walls adorned with the solemn faces of saints.
Maria Polyanskaya
That difference lies in this: either you do the work with joy, love, and empathy—the kind of work you simply cannot do without those three things—or you won’t last even a single day.
Fr. James Guirguis
Our Lord Jesus Christ is Son of God. One of the attributes of God is the ability to create from nothing.
Archimandrite Job (Gumerov)
Out of the multitude of miracles that the Lord wrought during His earthly life, the miraculous feeding of the 5000 people with barely loaves and two fish has a particular spiritual meaning.
This Icon of the Mother of God appeared to Avraam of Galich, a disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh, in the year 1350.
