Fr. Lawrence Farley
The question is a pressing one and it presents a challenge— viz. the question of how these young men, many of whom are married with families or at least have jobs that they cannot leave, can receive a theological education.
Raisa Taboranskaya
On October 8/21, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of St. Pelagea († 457). This woman, once a courtesan and leader of the dancers of Palestinian Antioch but who was converted to faith in God after hearing a sermon by St. Nonnus, became a nun during the fifth century. Metropolitan Joseph (Chernov † September 4, 1975) was a great hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church who spent over twenty years in the soviet concentration camps for his faith.
Alexander Popov
And is not man’s right to live, not to die, and his will to choose good or evil the most valuable thing in the world?
Alexandra Kalinovskaya
With the promise of earthly blessings, the impious ruler tried to turn Sts. Sergius and Bacchus away from the true faith. But the future martyrs did not listen to his flattering words.
St. Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky), Archbishop of Crimea
Our faith is in vain—faith in Christ, in God, is in vain if we do not believe in the resurrection, the general resurrection, and first of all the resurrection of Christ.
