Even while carrying out his obediences for the improvement of the skete, Fr. Gabriel did not cease to live an intense spiritual life. Constant prayer, spiritual wisdom, fatherly care for the brethren, heartfelt kindness toward outsiders, and practical competence in administration—all these qualities were wondrously combined in him.
Archpriest Andrei Tkachev
His argument for refusing to accept any faith other than the Orthodox faith may sound naïve. But this is the kind of situation about which the Romans used to say, “The pretext is trivial, but the cause is great.”
Priest Pavel Serzhantov
Priest Pavel Serzhantov, a theologian, a philosopher, associate professor of the Sretensky Theological Academy, and a cleric of the Moscow Church of the Holy Trinity at Saltykov Bridge, has talked about the role of the eighteenth-century Greek monk in today’s spiritual education.
Fr. Timothy Hojnicki
The heart of the Church calls every one of us, every person, to encounter the same Jesus, and it teaches us Who He is, what He’s done, and what He’s done for us.
Elena Detinina
On July 26, the Russian Orthodox Church honors the memory of St. Julian, Bishop of Cenomanis (now Le Mans), who lived in the first century A.D.
