Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh
How simple and how restrained are the words in which the Gospel describes his cruel rejection of his father, and prepares his departure into the far, the strange country! “Father, give me my part of thy inheritance!” Do these words not mean, “Father, I can’t wait until your death! You are still strong, and I am young; it is now that I want to reap the fruits of thy life, of thy labors; later they will be stale.
Natalia Prokofieva
The village of Naberezhny in Russia’s northern Pechora region arose essentially on the site of what was once a large cemetery—a cemetery of prisoners of the labor camps that built the Pechora Bridge and railway.
As in all Slavic countries, St. Cyril and his brother St. Methodius are highly venerated in North Macedonia as the Enlighteners of the Slavs.
Alexey Gunkin
Foolishness for Christ is a particular form of sanctity where spiritual gifts and virtues are consciously hidden behind external, ostensible madness.
Hierarchs of the Macedonian Orthodox Church-Ohrid Archbishopric and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church concelebrated in the city of Kratovo in northeastern North Macedonia this week.