Aorachuodo, Kenya, March 7, 2025 Photo: exarchate-africa.ru A great spiritual event took place at a Kenyan village church late last month. Locals have been turning to holy Orthodoxy all across Africa for years now, and mass Baptisms have become a common occurrence. One of the latest occurred at the Church of the Holy Apostle…
This present homily focuses on the Sacrament of Confession. St. Philaret of ChernigovPhilaret of Chernigov, St. “>St. Philaret of Chernigov was a Holy Hierarch of the nineteenth century, at a time when the laity typically didn’t commune at the Presanctified Liturgies in the The First Week of Great Lent“>first week of Lent, but rather spent…
On February 23/March 8, the Russian Orthodox Church honors the memory of the holy Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna. Callista and little St. Polycarp. Fresco at the Church of St. Polycarp (Izmir, Turkey) St. Polycarp was born around the year 80 A.D. and lived in the city of Smyrna in Asia Minor (now the…
Photo: kasheloff.ru With God’s help, we have finished reading the Great Penitential Canon. I thank you all for your prayers and that, overcoming bodily infirmities and various external obstacles, you came to the house of God all these four days to read the Canon. The Lord sees your efforts and He will reward you…
James Tissot. The lost drachma. Christ is in our midst, my dear readers! “With the passions I have buried the first image of goodness, O Savior, which, Thou didst seek and find, like the lost drachma” we heard today in the Great Canon “>canon of Andrew of Crete. Each of us bears the image…
