Rating: 8,7|Votes: 11
Swimming for the Holy Cross is one of the most favorite traditions of the Serbian people. Under the Communist party this custom was forgotten, but its revival began late in the 1990s and, particularly, early in the 2000s.
Rating: 10|Votes: 7
Today is the repose day of Romania’s beloved Princess, and America’s beloved abbess, Mother Alexandra (Hapsburg).
Matthew Dal Santo
Rating: 9|Votes: 6
Today’s tensions between Russia and the West have breathed new life into old caricatures that many thought had died with the Cold War. It would be ironic if in 2016 Russia’s only officially sanctioned leadership cult turned out to be one of peaceful nonresistance.
Archpriest Alexander Lebedev
Rating: 10|Votes: 2
Archpriest Alexander Lebedev talks about the meaning and significance of the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, how and when the grace-filled power of holy water manifests, and whether it can turn out to be “fruitless”.
Rating: 8,2|Votes: 11
“And we, the children, would run home, covering our cheeks from the Theophany frost with our hands in mittens. It is warm... Our souls are rejoicing. O Lord! How rich we the faithful are in beauty and purpose!” —Metropolitan Veniamin (Fedchenkov)