Love Knows No Differences
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

Love Knows No Differences

Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and Melitopol

Love knows no differences, and people can only be divided into two categories: those who want to be human and strive to have not only the image but also the likeness of God; and those who do everything possible to destroy all that is human in themselves.

Faith unto Blood
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Faith unto Blood

Sermon on the Feast Day of St. Seraphim of Sarov

Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh

St. Seraphim believed in Christ to the point of blood, to the point of readiness to shed his blood and empty his life.

What St. Seraphim of Sarov Didn’t Say
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

What St. Seraphim of Sarov Didn’t Say

On the Topic of Pseudo-Religious Myth-Making

Alexander Strizhev

Let us emphasize once again that these “prophecies” have no relation to St. Seraphim!

Elder Iakovos (Tsalikis), Part 1
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

Elder Iakovos (Tsalikis), Part 1

Metropolitan Paul of Sisanion and Siatista

But for Elder Iakovos, God was a Person Whom he trusted, Whom he prayed to; he turned all his problems and those of others into prayer to God.

Cassock
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Orthodoxy Around the World

Cassock

From the diaries of a small-town priest

Priest Konstantin Memyachkin

I was leaving the bank as if I was treading on air! I was walking away feeling happy and thinking: “Now I will always go to the bank wearing a cassock!”