Sergei Shchmel
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
July 9 is the repose day of Schema-Archimandrite Gabriel (Legach, 1901-1977), the abbot of St. Panteleimon Monastery on Mt. Athos.
Olga Rozhneva
Rating: 6,8|Votes: 4
“Everything is gained by prayer. You are only approaching the first step, you haven’t yet ascended it, only approach it and you still have to enter the door, but you can’t go in by any effort if God’s mercy is not there. That is why you first of all need to ask, “Open unto me the doors of Thy compassion, O Lord!”
Archpriest Serge Kotar
Rating: 10|Votes: 4
A healthy and moral society is built on the foundation of the Christian concept of family, which is under direct attack today. The enemy of our salvation understands this and does his evil best to destroy in our minds and hearts any understand of true family life.
Dmitry Lapa
St. Moluog was an Irishman destined to become one of the most venerated saints in Scotland. He was born in about 530 in what is now Northern Ireland to a noble family. His first monastery was Bangor in Ireland; and about the year 562 he crossed the Irish Sea and founded a monastery on the Scottish isle of Lismore.
St. Sebastian Dabovich
Rating: 5,1|Votes: 30
This John was called by God to be the forerunner of his Divine Son, to usher Him into the world, and to prepare mankind by repentance to receive the Redeemer, whom the prophets had foretold at a distance through every age from the beginning of the world, never ceasing to instill in the people of God faith and hope in Him by whom alone they were to be saved.