Articole din rubrica Lives of Saints

St. Nicholas, Enlightener of Japan

Saint Nicholas, Enlightener of Japan, (Ivan Dimitrievich Kasatkin) was born on August 1, 1836 in the village of Berezovsk, Belsk district, Smolensk diocese, where his father served as deacon. At the age of five he lost his mother. He completed the Belsk religious school, and afterwards the Smolensk Theological Seminary. In 1857 Ivan Kasatkin entered More…


2:53, Monday, 17 February, 2014 | Continuarea


The Sunday Of The Prodigal Son He came to himself – what does this mean?

The two things we must know to be saved. In the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen. [1] The Church gives us another example today, about repentance. It tells us another part of the story. This is the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, and is yet another Sunday that prepares More…


2:46, Monday, 17 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Sermon on the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple

Archbishop Dmitri of Blessed Memory On February 2nd (15th in the civil calendar) the Church celebrates the great feast of The Meeting of our Lord in the Temple. The Gospel lesson for that day relates how the mother of Jesus brought Him to the temple, as was the custom and requirement under the God-given Law More…


2:58, Friday, 14 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Meeting of the Lord

Forty days after Christ was born he was presented to God in the Jerusalem Temple according to the Mosaic Law. At this time as well his mother Mary underwent the ritual purification and offered the sacrifices as prescribed in the Law. Thus, forty days after Christmas, on the second of February, the Church celebrates the More…


2:53, Friday, 14 February, 2014 | Continuarea


St. Valentine’s Day: Legend and Reality

By Tatiana Fedorova Human perception is an extraordinary thing. We are very often inclined to accept a given piece of information as true simply on the grounds that, in modern terms, it has a high citation index. In other words, one and the same text, with slight variations, wanders from publication to publication and from More…


12:36, Friday, 14 February, 2014 | Continuarea


Martyr Tryphon of Campsada Near Apamea in Syria

The Martyr Tryphon was born in Phrygia, one of the districts of Asia Minor, in the village of Lampsacus. From his early years the Lord granted him the power to cast out demons and to heal various maladies. He once saved the inhabitants of his native city from starvation. St Tryphon, by the power of More…


12:20, Friday, 14 February, 2014 | Continuarea


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


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


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


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


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