... Vladyka Palladius asked the driver:- Listen, Alexander Pavlovich, why have we never gone there beyond these hills?- There, Vladyka,…

American actor Jonathan Jackson publicly confessed Orthodoxy at the Emmy Awards. After receiving the award, he crossed himself, praised the…

I want to tell you, dear readers, a rather unusual story. A story from the life of a guy who,…

One day, Gabriel’s father was visited by a young couple. The woman was pregnant. Father Gabriel blessed them and said,-…

This is what Elder Barsonofy Optinsky once said. One day one of the ministers came to a St. Petersburg priest,…

Recently, friends took me to an old friend of mine, I will call her Hope. We saw her three years…

Probably, everyone before baptism or coming to faith had an experience of hot, not fully understood prayer.My mother baptized me…

I served then in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.A man comes to me in the temple and says,"Can I talk to…

One man got a job in an artel on the Volga near Astrakhan. A lot of Tatars lived there. It…

During my initial monastic service in the Donskoy Monastery of Moscow, there was a period when I stopped reading the…