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The Worst Excesses of the Communist Period are Happening Today in Ukraine
21.12.2025 22:01
Bishop Theodosius (Ivashchenko)

At the moment, a man or woman seeking to pray in an Orthodox Church in Ukraine may be violently driven out of it during divine services with batons and tear gas. One risks being beaten, poisoned, or prevented from entering because schismatics seized the church during the night and changed the locks.
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“Hellenic-Christian” Culture and St. Basil the Great
21.12.2025 21:33
Archimandrite Epiphanios (Theodoropoulos)

If the Greeks passed on Christianity to others, they were repaying a debt, not rendering a service—for who first brought Christianity to them? Was it not Paul, a Jew? Why then do we speak only of the service of the Greeks? And finally, if Christianity was written in the Greek language simply because it was widely known, that fact lays upon the Greeks an obligation, not a privilege!
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Thanksgiving is an Essential Part of Spiritual Life
19.12.2025 23:39
Homily on the Gospel of Luke 17:12–19, on the healing of the ten lepers
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill

The believer first gives thanks to God, and in the light of this thanksgiving asks the Lord for His blessing and help in life and in every good work.
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“Ambrose for Bishop!”
19.12.2025 23:01
Alexandra Kalinovskaya

St. Ambrose’s sermon had a profound effect on his contemporaries. The saint became one of the greatest preachers and teachers of his age.
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A Miracle at Sea, or a Life Rescued by Prayer
19.12.2025 01:14
Irina Dmitrieva

I don’t know whether I was asleep or awake, but a small, gray–haired old man with a bald patch came into the barn and said, “Cheer up, Christina, why are you so sick?... the Lord wants you to live longer.”
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Sermon on the Feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
18.12.2025 20:56
Hieromonk Pafnuty (Fokin)

His kindness was gracious—granted to him by God for his pastoral zeal, it was combined with prudence and cheerfulness, and filled with the willingness to defend the faith.
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Following the Star of Bethlehem. The Spiritual Meaning of the Nativity Fast
17.12.2025 22:43
Ariadna Nefedkina

The Nativity Fast is a direction of our souls, the path of grateful anticipation of the Savior.
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Faith Through Trials
16.12.2025 23:29
Testimony of Miraculous Healings by the Prayers to the Venerable Agapitus the Unmercenary Physician of the Kiev Caves
Elena Belovitskaya

The incorrupt relics of the venerable saint have rested there for almost a thousand years, but he hears prayers as if there wasn’t a millennium dividing him and those who pray at his tomb today...
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Great Martyr Barbara, the “Patroness of Artillery”
16.12.2025 23:02
Yuri Ruban

When the masons were finishing the tower in her father’s absence, they pierced two windows in the wall, and Barbara—who had secretly embraced Christianity—ordered them to make three, as a visible confession of faith in the Holy Trinity.
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How to Help a Relative If He’s “Not All There”
15.12.2025 23:41
Conversation with Psychotherapist Andrey Butko
Elena Nasledysheva

Illnesses connected with damage to the brain are unequivocally not a direct consequence of sin.
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Question №6

Добрый день! Подскажите, пожалуйста, что такое "мшелоимство", "многостяжание", "скверноприбытчество"?

Катя

04.07.2010 г.

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