Nadezhda Terekhova
On the Leavetaking of Pascha, we offer our readers these Paschal photographs from the Holy Transfiguration Monastery on Solovki, taken by artist and iconographer Nadezhda Terekhova.
The day of the Leavetaking of Pascha was the last day of Jesus Christ’s life on earth when the Risen Lord appeared to His disciples to impart His final words about the Kingdom of Heaven.
Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye and Melitopol
St. Luke of Crimea possessed the fear of God and a courageous, brave soul. He never compromised with his conscience.
The Russian Orthodox Church festively celebrated the feast of the Uncovering of the Relics of St. Nil of Stolobny on Sunday, June 9.
The Macedonian Orthodox Church-Ohrid Archbishopric liturgically celebrated the canonization of two new saints during the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at St. Sofia Cathedral in Ohrid yesterday, Sunday, June 9.