Igumen Anthony (Korolev)
When a new wave of persecutions broke out in the 1960s, the authorities decided to close down one of the churches in the area, and their choice fell on Malye Yasyrki. But the sisters and the parishioners stood up for the church.
n the Soviet era the church in Malye Yasyrki was a spiritual center where people came for prayer and spiritual guidance not only from all over the Voronezh region, but also from across the USSR.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill
This truth is profoundly instructive for modern people, many of whom strive to be strong. While this desire is good, we must remember that true strength lies in the human spirit. Without God, this strength remains hidden from us. Without Him, we can only rely on our limited human abilities, which pale in comparison to the power of God. The strength of the martyrs was unattainable through human effort alone.
Kira Kireyeva
Loving and trusting, the Lord does not want to see us led and deprived of choice, which means that He does not regard us as slaves, but, on the contrary, as equal to Himself (in His image and likeness) since the creation of the world.
Evangelos Nikitopoulos
It is hard to overstate the ramifications of authenticity. Dionysius’ writings contain our earliest canon of the Bible, the earliest description of the Liturgy, a detailed exposition of the Sacraments and the role of Church orders, as well as the theology underlying iconodulia.
