Ioan Ianolide
Although it was a hard night and I didn’t rest at all, I didn’t feel fatigue, sadness, or regret. The reality of life was imbued with the reality of immortality.
Let us open our hearts for God’s Love and wrap it in the swaddling cloths of our mutual self-sacrificing love; then our lives will become joyful and happy, and nothing and nobody will be able to defeat us.
Metropolitan Tikhon of All America and Canada
Thus, with his Nativity—in Bethlehem and in the heart—Christ is with us, bringing every good, every blessing, with him.
Igumen Nikon (Vorobiev)
A tremendous miracle and mystery had taken place, one utterly beyond the comprehension not only of man, but of the highest of the heavenly host.
Svetlana Rybakova
There are many obstetricians and gynecologists among the parishioners of St. Nicholas Cathedral in Serpukhov, some of whom openly say that when medicine seems to be powerless, it often helps to turn to the Mother of God.