“Take care of your soul and stand firmly on the spiritual guard, because you do not know when the Lord will call you to Himself”, says St. John of Shanghai. In your earthly life, be ready at all times to submit to God. Take care of your soul and examine your conscience daily; examine the […]
He is one of the greatest Orthodox saints in the 20th century. Having escaped as a Russian nobleman before the revolutionary terror of 1917, he studied theology in the Serbian capital and supported himself by working as a colporteur. He was ordained a monk in 1926 in the Miljko Monastery, on the Morava river, and
“You should hate evil, but you should not hate a man who does evil, because he is sick. If you can cure a sick person, but don’t kill him with your hatred”, the bishop thought. Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich (1881-1956) is one of the most impressive personalities of Serbian Orthodox spirituality. He was educated in Switzerland
Saint Nikolai Velimirovich’s wise thoughts: Words that ennoble life! Read More »
Seraphim of Sarov was one of the greatest Russian Orthodox ascetics, foreseers and miracle workers, and he is celebrated as a saint in our holy Orthodox church. Having received gifts of grace from God: clairvoyance, miracles and healing, and according to the will of the Most High, he began to enter into conversation with visitors,
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There are almost no saints whose miraculous deeds of love are talked about as much as Saint Nectarios the Wonderworker of Aegina. The feast of his remembrance is always a good opportunity to remember some of the countless miraculous healings. We cite probably the most famous example of his miracles – the healing of also
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Metropolitan Amfilohije Radovich:I first met the great elder Paisius of Mount Athos in 1966, when I was still a layman. And I spent a certain period, almost ten months, already as a hieromonk, near his cell.The very first time I went there, I stayed for a week. I was going through a very difficult period
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Forgotten priceless gifts that the Nemanjićs (Serbian Dynasty) gave to the Italian basilica. King Milutin built a chapel around the saint’s tomb, cast from a mixture of silver and gold. Even after the collapse of the medieval state, Serbs still donated the temple The Catholic Basilica of St. Nicholas in Bari, which preserves the saint’s
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Nicholas was the only son of famous and rich parents Teofan and Nona. He was born in the Asia Minor region of Lycia, in the city of Patara around 270. Immediately after his birth in St. Nicholas, as the legend testifies, the future miracle worker could be recognized because during the baptism he could stand
The Elder Porphyrios once asked a pilgrim visiting him:— Do you know the troparion that begins, “We celebrate the slaying of death …”? — Yes, elder, I know it. — Then say it. —“We celebrate the slaying of death, the destroying of hell, the beginning of another way of life that is eternal. And leaping
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“Do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves…” (The service is Matins of Saturday morning sung by anticipation, on Friday evening.) It consists of psalms, hymns, and readings dealing with the death of Christ, in contrast to His divinity, and in expectation of His Resurrection. One of the hymns relates: “He who holds all things is
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