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Four-year-old asks Belgian king to block euthanasia of children

Montreal, Canada, Feb 5, 2014 / 01:59 pm (CNA) As Belgium legislators move forward with a proposed law to allow euthanasia for children, a 4-year-old girl from Canada is asking the King of Belgium to refuse to sign the legislation. “Please do not sign the Euthanasia Law, for the sake of the children,” Jessica Saba More…


5:04, Wednesday, 12 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Knowing the day of one’s death

I have not infrequently been asked by our parishioners: “Why did God hide from us the day of our end?” We find the most appropriate answer to this question in the Lives of Saints. A recluse monk, who believed that it would be better for people to know the time of their death, once had More…


3:32, Wednesday, 12 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Feast of the Three Holy Fathers, Great Hierarchs and Ecumenical Teachers, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, and John Chrysostom

During the reign of the Emperor Alexius Comnenus (1081-1118), a controversy arose in Constantinople among men learned in Faith and zealous for virtue about the three holy Hierarchs and Fathers of the Church, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom. Some argued for Saint Basil above the other two because he was able, More…


1:55, Wednesday, 12 February, 2014 | Continuarea


The Monastery “The Holy Great-martyr Jacob the Persian”

Sireţi village, Străşeni rayon, Moldova, MD-3731 Phone: (+373)-237-71705 Email: [email protected] How to get here: There is a bus station on Calea Ieşilor street, in Chişinău, next to agro-food market. The buses circulates between 6:00 AM and 21:00 PM, every 30 minutes * * * In the heart of the Bessarabia, at 16 km far from More…


10:05, Tuesday, 11 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Orthodoxy is in our hearts!

An old pastor of souls, after a whole day of work to the glory of the Lord, sits down to have some rest on a bench, at the garden gate of a needy woman from his community. Taking a few minutes of rest, he suddenly hears a subdued voice whispering something in desperate agony. Turning More…


3:53, Tuesday, 11 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Orthodox Moldova is now available in English

Following the launching of the Russian version of the Orthodox Moldova web site, we are now glad to announce our readers that it has also become available in English at https://en.ortodox.md/ The initiators of this Christian presence in the on-line environment, priests Mihail Borta and Constantin Cojocaru, announce us that the English version of the More…


12:30, Tuesday, 11 February, 2014 | Continuarea


The Transfer of the Relics of the PriestMartyr Ignatios the God-Bearer:

Commemorated on January 29 (February 11) The Transfer of the Relics of the PriestMartyr Ignatios the God-Bearer: (the account about him is located under 20 December). After the holy PriestMartyr Ignatios was thrown for devouring by wild beasts at Rome dying in the year 107 – on orders of the emperor Trajan, Christians gathered up his More…


10:09, Tuesday, 11 February, 2014 | Continuarea


The First Sunday Of The Triodion Period: Sunday Of The Publican And Pharisee

Introduction The Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee is the first Sunday of a three-week period prior to the commencement of Great Lent. It marks the beginning of a time of preparation for the spiritual journey of Lent, a time for Orthodox Christians to draw closer to God through worship, prayer, fasting, and acts More…


1:07, Sunday, 9 February, 2014 | Continuarea


The Sunday of the publican and the pharisee

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Regarding today’s Gospel, there are many misunderstandings. Firstly, let us be clear as to whom this Gospel concerns. The word “publican” does not have the modern meaning of someone who keeps a pub: in older English it simply means a More…


10:54, Sunday, 9 February, 2014 | Continuarea


The danger of easiness

Easiness is nowadays promoted on all possible channels, and is infiltrated in all areas of human activity. We are witnesses of – if not even participants in – a race for comfort and simplicity, which is alarming at best. This “philosophy” also directly affects the way we understand and experience our faith. Under the mask More…


4:16, Friday, 7 February, 2014 | Continuarea


St Gregory the Theologian the Archbishop of Constantinople

Saint Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople, a great Father and teacher of the Church, was born into a Christian family of eminent lineage in the year 329, at Arianzos (not far from the city of Cappadocian Nazianzos). His father, also named Gregory (January 1), was Bishop of Nazianzus. The son is the St Gregory More…


1:15, Friday, 7 February, 2014 | Continuarea


The most important labour of our life is the salvation of the soul

Prayer – not only public, in church, but also the intimate one, at home – plays a very important role in our lives. How beautifully reflects about prayer Saint and Righteous John of Kronshtadt. Let us listen to his words:  „Prayer is the ascension of the thought and heart towards God, contemplation of God, conversation More…


1:25, Thursday, 6 February, 2014 | Continuarea


THE LIFE OF ST. XENIA OF PETERSBURG January 24/February 06

St. Xenia was the wife of Colonel Andrei Feodorovich Petrov, who served as a court chanter. At the age of 26, Xenia was widowed and, appeared to have lost her mind from grief: she distributed her possessions to the poor, dressed herself in the clothes of her reposed husband, and, as if having forgotten her More…


11:29, Thursday, 6 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Saint John of Kronstadt on prayer

Saint John of Kronstadt on prayer. Brief excerpts from the journal of St. John of Kronstadt  “My Life in Christ” “I languish, I die spiritually,” – said St. John, – “when I do not serve in church for several days, and my soul and heart revive, are aflame when I serve, immersing myself in a More…


4:32, Wednesday, 5 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Love seeks goodness

“Love covers many sins” (1 Peter 4, 8) This is what love can do! Christian love does not insist on the other person’s faults, but seeks to cover them. We all have faults, we all can become unpleasant to some of our brothers, through certain features of ours, we all may face such situations in More…


11:15, Tuesday, 4 February, 2014 | Continuarea


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