Metropolitan Seraphim (Joanta) of Germany and Central Europe
This is fundamental to the Christian life.
Maria Tobolova
Nun Maria spent almost half of her life—forty-four years—in seclusion and ended her days in the service of God in the angelic, that is, monastic rank.
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To this day, in the city of Nazareth—one of the last cities in the Holy Land with a sizeable Christian population—there is a church dedicated to the Archangel Gabriel. Inside the church is a well that tradition designates as coming from very spring at which the Annunciation took place.
Almost simultaneously, pagans rose up against Christ and the Church in Denmark, Germany, and the Baltic Slavic principalities. Everywhere the unrest was accompanied by the destruction of churches, and the killing of clergy and other Christians.
Fr. Charalampos Papadopoulos
Unforeseen situations are contrary to God’s will and our desires, and that’s why they seem unforeseen to us. But in fact, they’re not unforeseen.
