WHAT IS ORTHODOX CHURCH ?
“He can no longer have God for a Father, who has not the Church for a Mother.”
One of the early Christian martyrs, Saint Cyprian of Carthage, spoke these words. They may seem strange to people of our generation, who have been schooled to believe that each person can relate to God in his own way. Yet Saint Cyprian adds that if any man who was not in Noah’s ark were able to survive during the Flood, then people would be able to be saved outside the Church.
THE IKON IN THE HOME
Stephen Graham, a Russian-speaking Englishman, wandered freely through Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, visiting large cities and remote country villages. His popular writings, now mostly out of print, were among the first detailed English accounts of provincial life in pre-revolutionary Russia. After 1917, when civil war forced his return to Europe, Graham himself became Orthodox. The following excerpt is from his book, Undiscovered Russia, published in 1912 by London’s Bodley Head Press.
Orthodoxy in Indonesia, An Interview with Archimandrite Daniel Bambang Dwi Byantoro by Thomas Hulber
When Archimandrite Daniel, the founder of the Orthodox Mission in Indonesia, came into the little bookstore in Amsterdam where we had arranged to meet, he was fresh off the plane from Jakarta, a flight of many long hours. Although he was tired, I could not persuade him to sit down; instead he inspected everything in the bookshop, visibly taking great joy in small things. Father Daniel’s incredible journey from Islam to Orthodoxy has taken him from Indonesia to Korea, Mt. Athos, the United States and Europe…
THE LIGHTNESS OF BEING ORTHODOX
Road to Emmaus staff asked five Moscow Orthodox Christians to tell us their favorite stories.
THE GOLDEN THREAD OF FAITH: MENTAL ILLNESS AND THE SOUL An Interview with Dr.Marina Busigina
When people are very distressed, I sometimes read the prayer,“Let God arise …� aloud for them. A priest once asked me: “What right have you to read ‘Let God arise …’ ?�,but my spiritual father says that only demons forbid one to pray. So I pray.
What Are the "Gates of Hell?"(Sermon on the Triumph of Orthodoxy), Bishop MITROPHAN
“I will build My Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” . Immutable is the Word of the Lord: in truth the “gates of hell” cannot conquer the Church of Christ!
Interview with Archimandrite Panteleimon, Founder of Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY
In my prayers, I began to ask God that He led me on the right path.We bought a cow and two horses and began to work the land. We began to build a barn for hay and started dairy production. From our own lumber we prepared the materials for our residences, consisting of 16 cells and a house church. This is when a good carpenter joined us, Hieromonk Ilia, and in 1935, the church was finished, which, on the day of its consecration, burned down. This was a tribulation sent by God to test our faith. Such were the first steps taken towards establishing our monastery, which, with God’s help, is now growing and growing, and during the 50 years of its existence it has turned into the lavra of the diaspora. Glory to God for everything!
ULTIMATE HUMILITY - IDEAL OF CHRISTIAN LIFE
A Conversation with Archimandrite Tadej
“Sacred Fathers say - ideal of Christian life
is not making miracles, healing the sick,
or resurrecting the dead,
but an ultimate humility”
TEXT IN ENGLISH
Dear visitors of our web-site of the monastery Lepavina! Due to a high number of visits of our website, I am honoured to take the responsibility to describe you in English different events from Serbian Orthodox Church and monastery Lepavina. We would like to inform you that we will be also putting on our web-site some texts in English on different subjects from other Orthodox websites. I deeply hope and believe that our Lord will help me in that!
With God’s blessing, from monastery Lepavina Archimandrite Gavrilo.
Biografia Archimandrite Gabriel (Vuckovic)
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