Rating: 10|Votes: 1
Once, in answer to the question "How can one be saved?" he answered, "The main thing is faith. Without faith, the very best of works are not unto salvation, for at the foundation of everything is faith. The second thing is repentance. The third is prayer, the fourth, good works. And despair is the worst of sins." Vladyka advised, "As soon as you are conscious of having sinned, cleanse your soul with tears."
Merab Dzhikia
Rating: 9,3|Votes: 3
Over the course of several decades of communist persecutions, the only place in Georgia where monastic life continued was Betania Monastery, where two archimandrites, John and George, labored in asceticism.
The Protection of the Holy Virgin is one of the most popular Orthodox holidays in Russia. Thousands of cathedrals were built in Russia in honor of this holiday.
Rating: 4,3|Votes: 11
The Church has always glorified the Most Holy Mother of God as the Protectress and Defender of the Christian people, entreating, by her intercession, God's loving-kindness towards us sinners. The Mother of God's aid has been clearly shown times without number, both to individuals and to peoples, both in peace and in war, both in monastic deserts and in crowded cities.
Rating: 7,3|Votes: 3
Vladyka said, “Let’s pray to the Heavenly King; perhaps he will hear our prayer.” They began to serve the moleben for rain. Then a miracle happened—the sky, which did not have a single cloud, darkened, became covered in thick rain clouds and it not only rained, it poured, as if a bucket of water had spilled out. The walls of the old Uralsk cathedral trembled from the thunderclaps. Vladyka paused in his prayer and said, “Orthodox people! Isn’t this a miracle?!”