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[English Edition / Churches and Monasteries]

Anniversary of the Enthronement of Met. Hilarion, Russian Church Abroad. His Enthronement Speech

Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral)

Only in peace of soul is there true blessedness for us; only those who possess an untroubled conscience before God and their fellow man can really be called happy. It is never too late to obtain this happiness, this peace: one need only actively strive towards God to the limit of one's abilities, trying to live in love and peace with others and to resolve firmly to begin a new, pious life.

[English Edition / Churches and Monasteries]

And then there were two

On a bleak Yorkshire moor, overlooking a stretch of turquoise sea, stands one of the most isolated communities in Britain. "Blink and you miss this place," says my taxi driver, Val Hutchinson, as she abruptly swerves off the main road out of Whitby and on to a long bumpy track. We drive past a stern sign: "Monastery enclosure, do not enter." Another decidedly unwelcoming sign follows: "The monastery does not receive visitors. There is no guesthouse." And another: "The monastery, churchyard and church services are closed to visitors."

[English Edition / Churches and Monasteries]

How We Left for the Monastery

Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov)

Suddenly the door opened wide, and at the threshold appeared a tall, young fellow, our age— around twenty-two—in "commercial" (as we use to say) blue jeans and an expensive jacket. "You know, I like it here! I think I'm going to stay!" he announced to us, without even saying hello.

[English Edition / Churches and Monasteries]

Bringing the Monk's Prayers Home from Holy Mt. Athos

Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.

One truth is certain: Recitation of the Jesus Prayer ("Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner") is very powerful, even for just a few minutes at a time. Whether you're in a cave or monastery, or in the cell of your apartment or suburban bedroom, you don't have to leave everything behind and become a monastic in order to find God in silent prayer.

[English Edition / Churches and Monasteries]

Give Hagia Sophia back to Christianity

Donald Heinz

The history of Hagia Sophia is well known. From its dedication in 360 until 1453, this Byzantine landmark was the Orthodox cathedral of Constantinople. It became a mosque from 1453 until 1934, when it was secularized, and re-opened as a museum in 1935. What was Mustafa Kemal Atatürk thinking when he secularized Hagia Sophia?

[English Edition / Saints. Asceties of Piety. Church Holy Days ]

Abbess Barbara of Pukhtitsa Convent Reposes in the Lord

She was justly called the "Abbess of all Russia." It can be said without exaggeration that Mother Barbara personified a whole epoch in the existence of Russian women's monasticism, and monasticism in general. She labored in monasticism for fifty years, forty-three of which she served as the abbess of Piukhtitsa Monastery in Estonia. Under Matushka Barbara, Piukhtitsa became a unique "smithy of monastic personnel," a capital city of women's monasticism. But mainly, here one could feel true Christian love, kindness, hospitality, and spiritual nobility, combined with deep monastic work.

[English Edition / Churches and Monasteries]

Wooden Churches in the Russian North

British architectural photographer Richard Davies is exhibiting a series of stunningly beautiful images of endangered, centuries-old Wooden Churches in the Russian North at the Museum of Finnish Architecture from March to May. Here’s a selection of the photographs that will be on display. If you can’t make it to Helsinki, be sure to stop by his website for more.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

The Attraction of the Russian North

An interview with Tatiana Yushmanova

In the Russian north, there is an amazing union of past and present, modernity and history, man and nature. There is such a light and tender harmony of water, air, the sunrise-sunset skies of the white nights, and the stark power of uninhabited space and snowy winters. But the main thing about the north for a Russian is that it is the most Russian place...

[English Edition / Churches and Monasteries]

Diveyevo Tradition, Part 2—"What I Heard From the Sisters, and What I Saw Myself"

Nun Seraphima (Bulgakova)

“It is not wondrous that it has not reached 700 feet near my hut, but it is wondrous that my death will be like the death of the seven youths of Ephasus, who slept for three hundred years in the cave. Just as they arose in affirmation of the General Resurrection, so will I arise before the end [of the world] and lie down in Diveyevo. Diveyevo will not be named for the village Diveyevo, but for the worldwide wonder.”

[English Edition / Churches and Monasteries]

Diveyevo Tradition, Part 1—Structure and Daily Life of the Monastery

Nun Seraphima (Bulgakova)

The following descriptions of Diveyevo Convent before and after the Bolshevik revolution are remarkable in that they are the personal recollections of two nuns who were novices in the Convent before it was closed by the Communists.

[English Edition / Churches and Monasteries]

"I Will Protect My Parishioners No Matter What."

Interview with Schema-Hegumen Nektariy

When you live in a foreign country, and you have to speak a different language, you need to look for your own roots, for your own culture, for your own people, and preserve it to know that you belong to something. Ninety eight percent of our parishioners are Russian women – newcomers from Russia. Most are married to Mexicans, and have children who are either not baptized, or baptized Catholic. It is a difficult process to help the families become Orthodox.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

St. Nicholas Parishioners Revisit Ground Zero Memories

On the sunny, beautiful morning of Sept. 11, 2001, John Costalas served a lot of breakfasts at his popular Essex House restaurant, where customers came early. Ten of them never came back, Port Authority workers who died in the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center a short while later. “They had breakfast here. Seven o’clock in the morning,” he said, pointing to their pictures on the wall where his eatery’s walls are a shrine of former customers who’ve passed away.

[English Edition / Churches and Monasteries]

Mean Old Fr. Nathaniel

Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov)

During those atheistic years, soviet workers who came to the monastery expected to find any sort of reactionary, sly money-grubber, ignorant and not quite human; what they did not expect was what they actually saw—slightly peculiar but very interesting, educated and clever, extraordinarily brave and inwardly free people who knew things that the guests had never even guessed. After but a few minutes it would be clear to them that they had never met anyone like these monks in their whole lives.

[English Edition / Coming to Orthodoxy]

“Orthodoxy Has a Great Future in Guatemala”

Conversation with Abbess Ines, head of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Guatemala

We sincerely love Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church. We have Byzantine crosses on our cupolas, but everything else is Russian: the architecture, the icons, and the frescos. People, when they see the Russian cupolas, understand right away that there is an Orthodox church before them. Our parish keeps to Russian traditions in the services, keeps to the Julian calendar; and the nuns wear the Russian monastic habit.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Orthodox in Australia acquiring abandoned Catholic, Protestant and Anglican churches.

An Interview with Protopriest Michael Protopopov

Warrnambool, Australia – On the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the 1st Eccumenical council, the Russian Orthodox community in the Australian city of Warrnambool celebrated their Parish feast day and a 10 year jubilee since the day the parish was converted from a historical Anglican Church to a thriving Russian Orthodox Parish. In mark of this event, Protopriest Michael Protopopov gives an interview to www.pravoslavie.ru to discuss the reasons why Catholics, Protestant sand Anglicans are deserting their churches.

[English Edition / Sretensky Monastery]

Fifteenth Anniversary of the Rebirth of Monastic Life in Sretensky Monastery. Archimandrite Tikhon. Reminiscences of Sretensky Monastery

The history of Sretensky Monastery—its apogee, its desolation in the twentieth century, and its rebirth at the end of an era, in the early 1990’s—is rich and diverse. But we can always find the Lord’s instruction in whatever might happen. Here are just a few incidents from the monastery’s recent history.

[English Edition / Sretensky Monastery]

On the 10th Anniversary of Sretensky Theological Seminary. Priest Vadim Leonov: “At Seminary, you receive the leaven which will enliven the rest of your life.”

Seminary prepares people for service in God’s Church and cultivates the corresponding set of qualities. It seems to me that seminary, first of all, gives a person a clear understanding of what service in the Church is, with all its positive sides, and also a proper understanding of all the difficulties. Often people entering a theological school still aren’t aware of a lot of things. Being immersed in a seminary environment, they come to understand that here one finds not only magnificent church-services and fellowship in love and oneness of mind, but also a particular set of inner trials and temptations.

[English Edition / Church History]

Bede’s World: Early Christianity in the British Isles

Fr. John Nankivell, pastor of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in Walsall, West Midlands, spent over thirty years teaching chemistry and religious studies before retiring as principal of Joseph Chamberlain College in Central Birmingham to take on a full-time ministry. His first book, Saint Wilfrid, on Wilfrid of York was published in 2002, and he has served as chaplain on a number of occasions to the annual Friends of Orthodoxy on Iona pilgrimage.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Orthodox Kosovo

From the fourteenth century to the present day, the land of Kosovo and Metohija has been, and will always remain, the spiritual heartland of the Serbian Orthodox nation. Sanctified by a multitude of monasteries and churches as well as by the blood of martyrs, the holy land of Kosovo occupies a place of honor and reverence within the souls of all believing Serbs.

[English Edition / Orthodoxy Today]

Notes about the Rock

An exlusive documentary archive of destroyed and vandalized churches and monasteries in Kosovo

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