Anna Romashko
And no good assurances from elderly ladies that if you commune an infant for forty days in a row they will later become a bishop will ever work without true love, faith, and natural religious life.
Elena Kucherenko
My friend Fr. Yevgeny’s teenage son was once put in a holding cell. He had been such a good boy. The church grandmothers used to cry tears of joy looking at him, and even the priest secretly did the same.
Peter Davydov, Maria Vasic
Kosovo, in Vladyka’s words, was lost only for those who have lost themselves—in time, space, and faith.
Protodeacon Vladimir Vasilik
The poisonous slogans, “there is no need to create poverty” and “you will still have children”, destroyed many more people than the carpet bombing of Korean cities and the burning of Vietnamese villages with napalm.
Among my acquaintances with many children, there was no case where doctors in consultation or even in the prenatal ward did not blackmail expectant mothers and try to persuade them to have an abortion under one pretext or another.
