TEXTS IN ENGLISH

As we begin Great Lent, it is helpful to call to mind the story of the man who objected to his priest that the lives of the saints - all-night vigils, perpetual fasting, and sleeping for only a few hours each day - these are impossible for most of us.

Matthew 6 (RSV):

14 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you;
15 but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

There is a term one runs across frequently, particularly in Russian spiritual writing. It is the word; prelest. I have seen it translated any number of ways - but at its heart it’s meaning is quite simple.

On forgiveness Sunday the Orthodox Church prescribes that we ritually forgive each other.

Forgiveness Sunday, the last of the preparatory Sundays before Great Lent, has two themes: it commemorates Adam and Eve’s expulsion from Paradise and our need for forgiveness.

In earlier times Europeans used the word “judgement” instead of the word “crisis” to explain the reason for any disaster.

I would like to tell you the story of my life.

I have been interested in the issue of whether unborn children should have human rights for quite some time. 

Natalia Smirnova talked with Igor Fomin, the prior of the chapel of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations

Biografia Archimandrite Gabriel (Vuckovic)

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