From Defeat to Victory. The Protection of the Mother of God, Part 2
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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From Defeat to Victory. The Protection of the Mother of God, Part 2

Priest Valery Dukhanin, Priest Nicholai Bulgakov

The feast of the Protection of the Mother of God is a feast very warm and dear to us, because in it is expressed the special closeness to us of the Most Pure Virgin. She spreads her veil over all those who pray, regardless of how righteous or pious we are, if only we turn to her with our whole heart.

Why are we Orthodox Christians?
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Theology

Why are we Orthodox Christians?

Wisdom from Lebanon

Archimandrite Gregorios (Estephan)

Orthodoxy has preserved the faith of the early Church in the same form it received it from the beginning; it neither added to it nor subtracted from it even a letter.

What is a Reader, and How Can You Become One?
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

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What is a Reader, and How Can You Become One?

Fr. John Whiteford

Anyone who is able can serve the function of a Reader, when needed. And there are many people who are not tonsured as Readers who do.

Modern Serbian Iconography: Žiča Monastery
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

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Modern Serbian Iconography: Žiča Monastery

Photogallery

The exhibit will display works from the icon studio of one of the most ancient Serbian monasteries, and is dedicated not to the monastery’s 800th anniversary, but also to the deep fraternal relationship that binds Russia and Serbia.

Three Hundred Years of Russian Orthodoxy in the British Isles and Ireland
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Church History

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Three Hundred Years of Russian Orthodoxy in the British Isles and Ireland

Archpriest Andrew Phillips

Our future place and role in these islands is precisely to continue to expand and witness to the Orthodox Tradition and Faith, not just for our own people, whose children and descendants are English-speaking and locally educated, but for those who seek – and find – spiritual comfort in partaking of the roots and origins of Christianity in the Faith and Tradition of our worldwide, multinational and multilingual Russian Orthodox Church.