“Here I Am, Lord”
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

“Here I Am, Lord”

Memories of Fr. Daniel Sysoev

Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov

Fr. Daniel knew no spiritual compromises and didn’t want to know them. Either all or nothing; either you’re an Orthodox Christian or an accomplice of the dark forces trampled by Christ’s Resurrection!

Let Me Go Down With the Ship
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Church History

Let Me Go Down With the Ship

On the Heroism of the Crew of the Minelayer “Prut” and Hieromonk Anthony (Smirnov)

Vadim Prokopenkov

Several episodes of his clairvoyance a few days before the tragedy were also reported. According to eyewitness recollections, on the eve of the battle, Father Anthony told acquaintances: “Why should my things drown in the sea? Take them and keep them.”

The King of Israel
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Theology

The King of Israel

Fr. Lawrence Farley

Tucked well away in the Divine Liturgy in a prayer that the priest says silently for himself we find a significant title of Christ.

A Drunk Young Pioneer and a Bum
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Homilies and Spiritual Instruction

A Drunk Young Pioneer and a Bum

Stories of Finding Salvation

Ekaterina Kharchenko

For someone who had spent decades dependent on alcohol and drugs, sobriety felt like landing on a strange planet.

“I was the smallest among my brethren.” Patriarch Tikhon’s Homily at His Enthronement <br> Delivered in the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin
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Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days

“I was the smallest among my brethren.” Patriarch Tikhon’s Homily at His Enthronement
Delivered in the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin

Patriarch Tikhon (Bellavin)

For archpastoral service is first of all a service of love. When a sheep is lost, the archpastor takes it upon his shoulders.