On Saturday, March 15, 2025, Igumen Seraphim Bell celebrated the Divine Liturgy for an English-speaking community at the Church of St. Nicholas in Novaya Sloboda in Moscow. His homily focused on the life and theology of St. Gregory Palamas: A Rare Case in TraditionAn ascetic who has been accounted worthy of passionlessness can thereafter taste…
Skopje, North Macedonia, March 20, 2025 Photo: bigorski.org.mk The primate of the Macedonian Orthodox Church-Ohrid Archbishopric is calling for prayer and unity as protests erupt over the recent tragedy in Kočani. A fire broke out in a nightclub early on the morning of Sunday, March 16, where fans, many of them teenagers, were packed…
Ashley, Pennsylvania, March 20, 2025 Bp. Saba with the now-deposed Abbess Aemilane. Photo: saintnina-monastery.org The Georgian Orthodox Diocese in North America has defrocked and removed the heads of three of its monasteries in America. The diocese announced on Tuesday: To the faithful of our Holy Diocese, we announce that, as of March 17 of…
In 2017, Pravoslavie.ru published this article by Olga OrlovaOrlova, Olga “>Olga Orlova on Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin)Iliy (Nozdrin), Schema-Archimandrite”>Schema-Archimandrite Iliy (Nozdrin), who had just turned eighty-five. He was born fifteen years after the beginning of the Bolshevik revolution, precisely on the day it began. His name day, which according to Orthodox tradition falls on the eighth…
The Life and Blessing of Elder IliyHis entire life was marked by the protection of the Most Holy Theotokos, and everything he did was in fulfillment of the will of the Sovereign Lady for the strengthening of his homeland. “>Part 1 Then came ten years of ascetic life on Mount Athos. Whenever people tried…
St. Gregory of Shlisselburg It’s natural for a living Christian soul to aspire to God. The aspiration for God finds its expression first of all in prayer to God. On PrayerWhat should someone do who doesn’t know any prayers, but desires to pray, to save his soul? “>Prayer is an appeal to God, a conversation…
