Alexandra Kalinovskaya
The prisoners were transferred to Kronstadt, gathered onto a barge, and told that every tenth man would be shot. Father Alexis turned out to be the ninth. A young priest stood near him.
Priest Leonid Bartkov
The mind, accustomed to quickly switching between applications and reading short and superficial messages, loses the ability to perform deep and focused prayer.
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Archpriest Zakaria Machitadze
In 1227 Sultan Jalal al-Din of Khwarazm and his army of Turkmen attacked Georgia. On the first day of the battle the Georgian army valorously warded off the invaders as they were approaching Tbilisi. That night, however, a group of Persians who were living in Tbilisi secretly opened the gates and summoned the enemy army into the city.
Among the Heavenly patrons of the Belarusian land, the founder of the Lavrishevo Monastery, St. Elisha, shines like a bright star from the depths of time. He was a silent man, a man of prayer, a mentor, a healer, a wonderworker, martyr, and defender of his native land.
Very Rev. Fr. Vladimir Vranic
True primacy must be exercised in the spirit of the Eucharist—as service, not control; as love, not jurisdiction.
