Overcoming Doubt Through Prayer: Insights from the Abbot of Putna Monastery on the Prodigal Son

Putna, Suceava County, Romania, February 18, 2025 ​Photo: Putna Monastery (YouTube)      Whenever the thoughts come rushing in, we must resort to prayer, lest we lose ourselves, the abbot of the Romanian Orthodox Church’s famous Putna Monastery preached on Sunday, reflecting on the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Abbot Archimandrite Melchisedec (Velnic) referred to the…

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Ready Our Hearts to Welcome the Heavenly King: A Homily for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son by St. John of Kronstadt

stainedglassinc.com      Father, I have sinned against Heaven, and before thee (Lk. 15:18) Beloved brethren, who among us has not and does not work for sin every day, voluntarily or involuntarily, consciously or unconsciously, knowingly or unknowingly? Who has not angered the Lord, Who is boundless On Truth and LoveThe hardest thing is to preserve…

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Field Expedition to Wild Siberian Dauria: Part 2 – Priest Dorimedont Protopopov, Father Kirill Sukhanov, Father Grigory Prelovsky, Hieromonk Benedict

     In 1868, Priest Dorimedont Protopopov was sent to the Tungus people on account of his knowledge of the Yakut language and wide popularity among the natives. Since there were no chapels or churches on their territory, they themselves sent messengers on reindeer for Fr. Dorimedont to come to one of the rivers where they…

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