“I understood that there was no Truth in what I was doing” (includes Video)
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Coming to Orthodoxy

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“I understood that there was no Truth in what I was doing” (includes Video)

Interview with Ivan Katanayev, a former skinhead

Why do patriotic young men turn into followers of Nazi ideology? What is the difference between Russian and European skinheads? What makes Neo-Paganism attractive to soccer fans? Is it easy to overcome prejudice toward Christianity? Do we need to preach Christianity in the streets? These are the topics of the interview with Ivan Katanayev.

St. Philaret of Moscow: Daily Prayer and Prayer of the Prisoner
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

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St. Philaret of Moscow: Daily Prayer and Prayer of the Prisoner

St. Philaret of Moscow

St. Philaret left a voluminous inheritance of what can be truly called patristic works. He also composed prayers, one of which has become for many a part of many people’s morning prayers. It is a prayer not for what we want, but for what God wills—that He would always be before us, working in us His Holy will.

Declaration of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church on the Council of Crete (2016) and the text “Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World”
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Orthodoxy Today

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Declaration of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church on the Council of Crete (2016) and the text “Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World”

"Careful study of the documents adopted at the Crete Council leads us to the conclusion that some of them contain discrepancies with Orthodox Church teaching, with the dogmatic and canonical Tradition of the Church, and with the spirit and letter of the Ecumenical and Local Councils."

 St. Maria of Helsinki
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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St. Maria of Helsinki

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

All the tears that you have shed will glitter like diamonds on the robes of the Mother of God; for all your sufferings and trials God will especially bless you and reward you. —Prophecy of the Holy Martyr Tsarina Alexandra

 Did you really see God?
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Education

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Did you really see God?

Priest Alexei Zabelin

Faith, as the knowledge of God, Whom my eyes have seen and my hands have touched, Whom I have come to know with all my senses, as He was with me in sorrow and joy—we can only talk about such faith with young people out of personal experience of a meeting with God. This experience of meeting God first transforms the person himself, and then he has something to share with others—the joy of personal transformation.