Baba Shura was preparing to go to bed, endlessly removed her black skirts and sweatshirts, strung on top of each…

During the Great Patriotic War, Seraphim Vyritsky prayed hard to the Mother of God and St. Seraphim, and we have…

St. Nicholas, help me tell you how you helped me and my children get an apartment. I have to tell…

In recent years, I have not worked, but the habit of putting off all household chores on Saturdays remained for…

The spiritual daughter of the schiegumen Sava said: “One girl came to Pechora to Father Sava, having read books about…

There is no way to joke with God. I will tell you a story from my life when I asceticized…

Saint John (Maximovich) had the custom of visiting the Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville once a year. On one visit,…

- One Athos monk received a message from Russia that his friend had died. He took the prosphora, entered the…

One layman decided to turn to Elder Paisius of Athos to tell about one temptation.When he was with his companions,…

Once, two sectarians came to the monastery founded by schiarchimandrite Zosima Sokur by car and began to pester everyone with…