Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol
Met. Athanasios explains that salvation depends on our choices to remain faithful to God's commandments, emphasizing that we should focus on our own spiritual vigilance and readiness rather than speculating about when apocalyptic events will occur.
Мet. Athanasios explains how the seven angels with plagues represent spiritual consequences of humanity's departure from God, and how faithful Christians will ultimately triumph over the antichrist like the Israelites crossing the Red Sea.
Hieromonk Silouan (Yaroslavtsev)
I arrived in a city where all the stores were closed on Sundays, even including grocery stores. It seems to me that if we call ourselves an Orthodox nation, we could learn from them.
Archpriest George Breyev
We cannot fully overcome feelings of self-love; they are very strong. And if a person does not struggle with them, doesn’t reject them, then, naturally, a demand arises to judge others from the heights of their self-opinion, saying: “I am so high and perfect, but I do not see perfection around me. Therefore, I have the right to make judgments and label others.”
Nino Turmanidze, Konstantin Tsertsvadze
I don’t know where I got the strength, but I raced home like a bullet. At home, I had oil from the holy relics of the Elder Gabriel. I knew it was the only thing that could help.
