How Can We Talk About Persecutions if the Very Word Itself Has Been Banned?
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Church and State

How Can We Talk About Persecutions if the Very Word Itself Has Been Banned?

Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and Melitopol

The attempt to completely cancel a whole portion of society is fraught with the danger of a huge schism in society in the future. And this will be yet another component on the path to the deterioration and self-destruction of the Ukrainian nation.

“For He Does Whatsoever He Wills”
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Coming to Orthodoxy

“For He Does Whatsoever He Wills”

About How a Bullet Changed Directions

Sergei Seryubin

“You know,” Fr. Germogen thoughtfully said to me, “the first thing I said about being wounded was, ‘I forgive everyone.’”

Giving From Your Heart
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Giving From Your Heart

Fr. James Guirguis

St. Leo of Rome tells us that as Christians we should always be focused on preparing for the end of our earthly life.

St. Nikephoros (Tzanakakis) the Leper. Part 3
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

St. Nikephoros (Tzanakakis) the Leper. Part 3

Metropolitan Neophytos (Masouras) of Morphou

You see how God arranges such events to show us that we have holy fathers and mothers who take care of us.

Tobacco Enfeebles the Soul, Strengthens the Passions, and Darkens the Mind
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Tobacco Enfeebles the Soul, Strengthens the Passions, and Darkens the Mind

“‘Not all at once, not all at once,’ the Elder told me. ‘Everything in its own time. Your hour will come, and you won’t smoke anymore.’