• Intercessor of our Fatherland
  • Temple of Venerable Hilarion the Great
  • About libel
  • St. Lazarus Church of the Pskov Caves Monastery
  • Discovery of the relics of Saint Lazarus in Cyprus in 1972
  • Righteous Lazarus of the Four Days
  • About false teachings
  • Relics of St. John, Bishop of Suzdal
  • Hieromartyr Thaddeus, Archbishop of Tver
  • By 375th anniversary of bringing to Moscow the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God
  • Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God
  • About the path to God
  • Blessed Andrew of Totma
  • Saint Poplia Confessor, Deaconess of Antioch
  • "Knowing... your sinfulness, is the beginning of salvation"
  • The caves of Pskov Caves Monastery
  • About faith (In the Gospel, the Lord, wanting to bring the disciples to perfect faith, said...)
  • Venerable Damian Presbyter of Caves
  • Venerable Seraphim (Amelin) of Glinsk
  • Reading (Read books in the morning for a quarter of an hour before work...)
  • Saint Agathangel, Metropolitan of Yaroslavl
  • Temple
  • The image and likeness of God in man
  • Consolation
  • Saving Protection of the Mother of God
  • Trust in the Lord
  • From "The Diary of a Regimental Priest"
  • About the love to God
  • Despondency (Dejection means the same laziness, only worse...)
  • Help from Venerable Chariton
  • Vainglory
  • Near caves of the Kiev Caves Lavra
  • Sobriety
  • "Put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness" (Col. 3, 14)
  • We must force ourselves to bear sorrowful encounters
  • The long-suffering of the Lavra hieromonk Artemius
  • "You must have the determination to endure everything"
  • Mirozh Icon of the Mother of God
  • Patience (He that endureth to the end shall be saved...)
  • Abbess Eupraxia (Nakhotinina)
  • Dispute
  • Miraculous help through prayers to Venerable Macarius of Zhabyn
  • Salvation
  • Venerable Cosmas of Zograf
  • Connection with God
  • Zosima men's hermitage
  • Embarrassment
  • From the biography of Venerable Alexis of Zosima
  • "Descend into the depths of humble wisdom"
  • Venerable Hilarion of Optina
  • Where salvation is not far away!
  • By 325th anniversary of the repose of Venerable Euphrosyne of Suzdal
  • "Which way is to go to God?"
  • From the biography of Righteous Alexis of Moscow
  • "Be though a sinner, but be humble"
  • About Psalm 51 (KJV)
  • How to obtain humility?
  • "The salvation of each of us is received from the Cross of the Lord by each one's own cross"
  • "Humility covers all shortcomings and forgives sins"
  • Church of the Resurrection of the Word in the Pskov Caves Monastery
  • "A humble person lives on earth as in the Kingdom of Heaven"
  • Victimhood (Lack of victimhood is the worst thing that can happen...)
  • Humility (We are not considered humble when...)
  • "Altai is as magnificent as Athos"
  • God ends a person's life only if he's ready for eternity or gives no hope to correct himself
  • The path to eternal life
  • Death
  • About military service
  • Boredom
  • By 625th anniversary of founding Sabbas-Storozha Monastery
  • "Through involuntary sorrows or illnesses we draw closer to the Lord"
  • "We must continue to pray and not lose heart"
  • Without enduring sorrows a soul is incapable of the Kingdom of God
  • "Confess the Lord and thereby attract others to Him"
  • The test of faith and deeds is accomplished by tribulations
  • Fighter for Holy Orthodoxy
  • Endure sorrows to rejoice with unspeakable joy
  • Belief
  • "The Kingdom of Heaven is not given to those lying on their sides"
  • Consequences of loss of love for God and neighbours
  • Sorrows (Do not be discouraged by the sorrow of this life...)
  • On the veneration of Venerable Anthony of Caves
  • Heart
  • About attitude towards neighbours
  • Family life
  • "Remembering our own sins, we will never think about others'"
  • Self-will
  • The disciples of Venerable Alexander of Svir
  • Invisible spiritual growth
  • From the word on the day of the Beheading of John the Forerunner
  • Self-reproach ( Try to acquire self-reproach and humility in everything...)
  • The action of God's grace
  • Self-justification (Self-justification closes spiritual eyes...)
  • About the Holy Hieromartyr Kuksha and Pimen the Faster
  • Self-love
  • Saint George Kossov
  • Murmur (God endures all human sins...)
  • About mutual helping each other
  • Spiritual mind
  • Far Caves of the Kiev Caves Lavra
  • Gladness
  • The best preparation for Confession is to remember a little each day
  • "Then we will find calmness and peace of soul"
  • Venerable Anphousa
  • Let us love the Lord with all our soul and have peace and shrine with everyone
  • Appearance of the Light-painted Image of the Mother of God on Mount Athos
  • Path to salvation
  • "As nothing He created the earth" (Is. 40, 23)
  • Simplicity (The Lord rests in simple hearts. Gold is visible everywhere and will glimpse everywhere...)
  • From the word before start of the learning
  • Providence of God (Faith does not only consist in believing that there is God, but also in His all-wise Providence...)
  • About doing good
  • Communion
  • About Venerable Alipius, the icon painter of Caves
  • Holiday
  • Martyr Diomede the Physician
  • Praise (Whoever reproaches us gives us gifts, and whoever praises us steals from us...)
  • Pskov Caves Monastery
  • Fasting (While abstaining from meals, we must also abstain from passions...)
  • Kiev Caves icon of the Dormition
  • Obedience (Obedience is what guides us to the path of perfection...)
  • ABC
  • Do not be embarrassed by thoughts, but try to despise them
  • Healings at the grave of St. John of Sviatohirsk
  • Means from prodigal thoughts
  • Venerable Martyrs Theodore and Basil of Caves
  • "We should not give in to the enemy"
  • The relics of Venerable Sabbas of Storozhi
  • Thoughts
  • About the unhurried performance of prayer
  • Help of God
  • Saint Mitrophan of Voronezh and Tsar Peter
  • Peace
  • About veneration of St. Mitrophan of Voronezh
  • "Only the sincere desire to return to God is required"
  • Saint Theoktist, bishop of Chernigov
  • "The sight of sins is a gift from God"
  • Great gift of God
  • "God accepts your heartfelt repentance"
  • "Do good more and more"
  • Repentance (The basis of our salvation is repentance...)
  • A story about a merchant who was disrespectful to his mother
  • Sadness
  • About Blessed Basil of Moscow
  • Memory of death (We should not be careless, but we should be afraid that death will come to our cell unexpectedly...)
  • About the Dormition Fast
  • Despair
  • Saint Germanus, Bishop of Auxerre
  • Attitude towards neighbours
  • Hieromartyr Valentine the Bishop
  • Condemnation (We must remember the Gospel word of the Lord Himself...)
  • Martyr Maxim Rumyantsev
  • Courage (True holy courage is always connected with a feeling of deep humility...)
  • Saint Pitirim of Tambov
  • Monasticism
  • "Prayer... is stronger than the very kingdom"
  • Silence (Be silent more. And if you are asked about anything, even in church, answer without any irritability...)
  • On respect for elders
  • "The most indispensable weapon in the work of our salvation"
  • Holy Scripture
  • On the receipt of the inner Jesus Prayer
  • "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?"
  • Jesus Prayer (Pray earnestly to the Lord God and warm up your cold heart with His Sweetest Name...)
  • By 135th anniversary of glorification of the icon "Joy of all who sorrow" (with pennies)
  • Churchly prayer
  • Saint Theophane the Recluse at the Vladimir cathedra
  • How to acquire prayer and pray for offenders
  • On glorification of the icon "Surety of sinners" in 1848
  • "Silence after prayer is very useful"
  • Relics of Venerable Martyr Athanasius of Brest
  • Prayer (When you begin to pray, you bring sins to your memory and weep over them...)
  • About God (God is a fire that warms and inflames hearts and insides...)
  • Everyday world
  • Voluntary and involuntary sorrows
  • Peace of the soul (God Himself lives in the person who has a peaceful heart...)
  • About Abba Vin
  • Mercy
  • Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir
  • Pusillanimity
  • About the book "Unseen warfare"
  • On non-judgement of your neighbour
  • Love for your neighbour
  • About the importance of humility
  • Love to God
  • Life according to God
  • Laziness
  • By 25th anniversary of finding the relics of Hieromartyr Hilarion of Vereya
  • Cross
  • Chief of all Russian monks
  • Cell rule
  • Soul blindness
  • Correction
  • "Protect everyone, O Mistress, Queen and Lady"
  • Confession (When approaching the Mystery of Confession, you should present yourself with fear, humility and hope...)
  • "Who resists the adjunction, he cuts off everything"
  • "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation"
  • About death (Unbelievers are afraid of death, because they see in it the destruction of life...)
  • Evil
  • Venerable Martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth
  • Feasible fulfilment of God's commandments is possible everywhere and always
  • Royal Passion-Bearers
  • Commandments of God
  • "Be not slothful in business..."
  • Cares
  • On the duties of a wife
  • Life path
  • Old Testament and New Testament
  • Gospel (To fulfil the commandments of Christ, you must know them...)
  • God will never leave without His help
  • Spiritual dignity
  • About self-correction
  • Spiritual Father
  • Royal confidants
  • Spiritual life
  • By 25th anniversary of finding the relics of Venerable Ambrose of Optina
  • Virtues
  • Prayer (Each deed must begin with an invocation of the name of God for help...)
  • Good deeds
  • About patience and humility
  • Gifts
  • "History does not represent another such man"
  • Sin
  • "Let us be worthy of the intercession of the Mother of God for us"
  • A sure sign of a proud soul
  • Martyr Alban the British
  • Persecutions
  • The dying vision of a Monk Israel
  • Anger
  • "The monastery is needed for the world"
  • Enmity
  • Assembly of the Venerable Fathers of the Pskov Caves
  • Veil
  • "Give children a good moral upbringing"
  • Justify yourself in nothing
  • Fortune-telling
  • A humble man
  • "Rely on the will of the Lord"
  • Prayer and mind
  • "Let the will of God be done!"
  • About Venerable Alexander of Svir
  • God's will
  • Burial of Righteous Alexis of Moscow
  • Attentiveness
  • From the teachings of Righteous Alexis Mechev
  • Brotherly love
  • Russian ascetics
  • On struggle against temptations
  • About prayer (In church, it is useful to stand at prayer with closed eyes in inner attention...)
  • "Always resort to Christ"
  • About Saint John, Metropolitan of Tobolsk
  • Warfare
  • By 100th anniversary of repose of Righteous Alexis of Moscow
  • Cheerfulness of spirit
  • Saint Theodore, Bishop of Suzdal
  • Getting knowledge of God
  • How to fast
  • Blisses
  • "The factory of our Heart"
  • Reverence
  • Celebration of the memory of All Saints who shone in the Russian land
  • Farewell converastion, death and burial of the great ascetic
  • Disrespect
  • Spiritual instructions of the saint as a guide for our lives
  • Kursk-Root Icon "The Sign"
  • The main subjects of the rest of the great ascetic's letters
  • From the Life of Venerable Anthony of Caves
  • Letter 6, on the incessant malice of evil spirits and necessity of humility
  • Righteous John of Kronstadt
  • Letters 4 and 5 of the great ascetic, explaining attitude towards God
  • From the conversations of Venerable Herman of Zosima
  • Letter 3 of the great ascetic, about the means to achieve salvation
  • Temple of All Saints in Zosima Hermitage
  • Letter 2 of the great ascetic, on the necessity of taking care of one's salvation
  • The Sunday of All Saints
  • Letter 1 from "Twenty teachings" of Ven. Anthony, about renunciation of the world
  • By 600th anniversary of appearance of the Godenovo Cross
  • On the virtue of virginity and necessity to avoid a treacherous man
  • In temptations always remain steadfast
  • Protect from vainglory and be constantly vigilant over self
  • Freedom of man and God's help
  • "Refrain from slander and the pronunciation of evil words"
  • Russian Chrysostom
  • The saint warns against pride, envy, quarrelsomeness and verbosity
  • By 35th anniversary of glorification of Blessed Xenia of Petersburg
  • Written heritage of Ven. Anthony
  • Venerable Euphrosyne, Abbess of Polotsk
  • The Lord revealed the ascetic about following persecution of the Orthodox by the wicked Arians
  • "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost" (Acts 2, 4)
  • God showed the ascetic a hermit more perfect than he was, Paul of Thebes
  • Blessed Andrei of Simbirsk
  • Narration about Paul the Simple shows the labours of Ven. Anthony in his mountain
  • About the resurrection of the dead
  • Beneficial action of the ascetic on the all around him
  • Blessed Prince John of Uglich
  • Confrontation of the ascetic with heretics
  • Venerable Dodo of Gareji
  • Righteous severity of St. Anthony
  • Gareji
  • Respect of the ascetic for all spiritual persons
  • Venerable Lawrence of Komel
  • The ascetic and the earthly kings
  • About the First Ecumenical Council
  • The advantage of faith in Christ over pagan philosophical wisdom
  • Yaroslavl (Caves) Icon of the Mother of God
  • Short but full of strength answers of St. Anthony confused pagan sages
  • Venerable Pachomius the Great
  • Revelation of visions to the ascetic on the mountain
  • Ascension of the Lord (We must thank our Saviour for the fact that He ascended into heaven...)
  • Due to his humility, the ascetic attributed all miracle works to God
  • Equal to the Apostles Methodius and Cyril, the teachers of Slavs
  • Miraculous prayer of the ascetic heals the sick and demoniacs
  • Reception of the monastic charter by Venerable Pachomius the Great
  • How the ascetic was leaving his place of solitude for spiritual help of those who needed
  • "Live for others and you yourself will be saved"
  • Journey of the ascetic to the monasteries founded by him
  • Worldly glory is not to be sought
  • The ascetic settles in a new place of refuge
  • Founders of monastic life in Georgia
  • Tired of glory, the ascetic seeks for solitude
  • About virtue
  • Ven. Anthony and the martyrs
  • From the teachings of Ven. Hilarion of Optina
  • About a pious layman, instructiveness of one appearance of the ascetic, his guardianship of external
  • Parable of bad thoughts
  • On the necessity to be indulgent towards those who fall through weakness
  • Kyiv Caves icon of Assumption of the Mother of God
  • About unlessness of too much talk
  • On the theology of St. Athanasius the Great
  • "God Himself will not take pity on you if you do not take care of yourself..."
  • "Every prayer must come from the heart"
  • Spiritual forces need rest as well as physical ones, and humility and vigilance over their owner
  • "The works of salvation are works of faith"
  • On the advantage of desert life before living with parents, need of tears for forgiveness of sins
  • Venerable Nectarius of Optina
  • On the necessity of solitude for monks, and to judge and test oneself for everyone
  • Wonderful bouquet
  • Ascetic's vision of enemy's nets. Dependence of our life and death from the neighbour
  • The deed of salvation
  • "Do not rely on your righteousness; and bridle the tongue and the belly"
  • About calling on the name of the Lord
  • On the feat of true repentance and the expectation of temptations to the last breath
  • "Peace is a consequence of the virtues"
  • The precepts of Ven. Anthony as an answer to what to do to please God
  • "Sin no more"
  • The ascetic urged his disciples not to boast of gifts and to watch over themselves
  • Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, a poem
  • Do not believe demonic predictions. Distinguish appearing of good and evil spirits
  • On the transfer of the relics of Saint Euphrosyne to Polotsk
  • Be not afraid of demons for they have no power
  • Righteous Alexius of Bortsurmany
  • The treachery of demons trying to use the guise of reverence and even truth
  • About will
  • The ascetic warns his disciples of spooky demonic tricks
  • Human life
  • The ascetic assures his followers in the danger of negligence and the ease of acquiring virtue
  • Multitude of concern removes a person from God
  • How the ascetic aroused zeal for virtue in his spiritual children
  • Example of holy myrrh-bearing women
  • Numerous brethren gather around the ascetic after he left his solitude
  • Foundation of the Boldin Monastery in Chernihiv
  • Requests of those who resorted to his help forced the ascetic to leave the seclusion
  • Saint Daniel of Achinsk
  • Life of the ascetic in seclusion, incessant demonic attacks
  • Relationships with neighbours
  • A new place chosen by the ascetic for stricter life
  • About Abba Ammon
  • Christ affirms the ascetic, and none temptation can entice him
  • Radonitsa
  • How the courage of the saint inflamed the demonic rage
  • To the Guardian Angel
  • Strength of mind, given to the ascetic over feelings
  • "Without faith, our knowledges are very dangerous..."
  • "Without an image, no matter how the room is decorated, but it still will be gloomy"
  • The first victory of the ascetic over the devil
  • Mirozhsky Monastery
  • Beginning of a hermit's life
  • "If a person leads a right life, then his matter speaks for itself"
  • Childhood and youth of Ven. Anthony
  • The soul cannot be happy without mercy
  • About Abba Theonas
  • St. John Chrysostom about Ven. Anthony the Great
  • Saint Philip I, Metropolitan of Moscow
  • Seeking for an Orthodox explanation of the nature of Divine inspiration
  • About eating red eggs on Easter
  • Why it is important to penetrate into the meaning of Holy Scripture
  • Christ's victory over death
  • Gaining spiritual experience through Holy Scripture
  • On the forgiveness of sins
  • Holy Scripture on the path of salvation
  • About the Sacrament of Communion
  • Holy Scripture and the prayer life of the Church
  • "Ladder"
  • On the composition of the Bible (the question of the Old Testament)
  • About veneration of Venerable Vassa in the Pskov Caves monastery
  • On the relationship between the Bible and science
  • Monastic tonsure of St. Hilarion (Troitsky)
  • On possibility of the very fact of Holy Scripture
  • "Jerusalem is the image of a godly soul"
  • On the doctrinal authority of the Holy Scripture
  • The Resurrection of Lazarus
  • On the origin of Holy Scripture
  • Venerable Sabbas the New
  • About the names of the Holy Scripture
  • Caring for parents and family happiness
  • Place of Holy Scripture as a source of knowledge of God
  • Venerable Sergius Srebryansky
  • On the nature of Holy Scripture
  • To a young heir about his father's last wish
  • Of memories about Ven. Gabriel (Urgebadze)
  • A miracle by the prayers of Venerable Euthymius the Great
  • On drinking medicines, trusting dreams and TV for information
  • Example of Venerable Mary of Egypt
  • Music that does not excite passions is allowed by God
  • By 550th anniversary or repose of Venerable Vassa of Pskov Caves
  • About miscellaneous
  • By 20th anniversary of glorification of Venerable Simeon of Pskov Caves
  • About the pectoral cross
  • Gracious help at birth
  • About temptations (When temptations are added, then the grace of God is added...)
  • From the sayings of Venerable Parthenius of Kyiv
  • About antichrist
  • Trials are medicine for the soul
  • About Georgia
  • What are the fasts for?
  • About the sign of the Cross
  • Venerable John of the Ladder
  • About monks and nuns
  • An answer to the questioner about salvation
  • About passions (Some men and women say that they have no passions and temptations...)
  • Godenovo Cross
  • About Communion and Confession
  • About cross-bearing (Everyone has his own cross, and for everyone's salvation there is only his or her cross...)
  • About repentance (Saint John the Baptist for the first time addressed the people like this...)
  • Hieromartyr John Znamensky
  • About prayer (The Lord only listens to your prayers when you yourself hear and understand them...)
  • Miracle from the Kursk-Root Icon "The Sign"
  • About faith (Anyone who, for some reason, leaves the Orthodox faith and converts to another faith...)
  • "Surety of sinners"
  • About humility (Without humility, not only in great love, but also in other virtues, you will not be able to succeed...)
  • On the carrying out of the Cross on the Cross-worshipping Sunday
  • About kindness
  • "What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death?" (Ps. 89, 48 KJV)
  • Where there is no love, there is hell
  • Martyrs Paul and Juliana
  • About love
  • "Human is the image of God"
  • Overcoming doubts about the truth of the Body and Blood of Christ
  • On the relics of St. Arsenius of Tver
  • Wondrous life and the fear of death
  • Spring
  • Non-obvious fulfilment of Christ's commandment
  • "Force yourself to read the Scriptures as often as possible"
  • Hospitality and silence
  • Christianity
  • On the priority of monastic deeds
  • On the tradition of burying the reposed nigh to the temples of God
  • Strive with all your might to receive the spiritual
  • Advices for a Christian girl
  • About the advantage of spiritual Wisdom over worldly one
  • About the veneration of holy relics
  • Importance of humility
  • To the 25th anniversary of finding the relics of Blessed Matrona of Moscow
  • "A manifestation of disinterested and high sympathy for the graceful"
  • Love for people
  • How Ven. Arsenius the great became a monk
  • Signs of incorrect spiritual work on ourselves
  • After death
  • St. Nicholas Church of the Pskov Caves Monastery
  • Preparing for death
  • About fasting (Beginner of feats and Saviour our Lord Jesus Christ, before setting out on the feat of the redemption of the human race, strengthened Himself with a long-lasting fast...)
  • Cleansing
  • About repentance (Our holy fathers teach us to repent in such a way that repentance will wash away all the filthiness of our sins...)
  • Bear ye one another's burdens
  • Their the Life of Great Martyr Theodore Tyron
  • Self-reproach ( Where there is self-reproach, there is humility...)
  • "Perform your duties diligently, conscientiously"
  • Courage (In our salvation, the main thing is to have courage...)
  • The path of feat
  • Infirmity
  • About Holy Fourty Days
  • Humility (When obstacles are encountered on the path of salvation...)
  • From a conversation at Vespers on Cheesefare Sunday
  • Idle words
  • Venerable Palladius of Helenopolis
  • Vanity
  • About veneration of St. John of Uglich
  • Marriage by attraction of passion
  • The power of monastic prayer
  • Feelings of reverence
  • Jesus Prayer (The Jesus Prayer, according to the teachings of the Holy Fathers, is the most important prayer...)
  • Hope for salvation
  • The abbot of Zosima Hermitage
  • Obedience (The word "obedience" has a double meaning...)
  • Without real efforts, everything will be ineffective
  • Tearful prayer
  • Christian doctrine
  • Immoderation
  • About the memory of death (Sincere and unconditional acceptance of the Gospel is inevitably a violation of the habitual and calm ideas about life...)
  • Enemy of salvation
  • "Cherish the time"
  • Thoughts of condemnation
  • Encounter with Christ
  • Unpleasant cases
  • "And he came by the Spirit into the temple" (Lk. 2, 27)
  • Sorrows (Only a prudent thief has no sorrows...)
  • Meaning of the temple for a believer
  • Passions
  • Blessed Pelagia of Diveevo
  • Bearing of the cross
  • The crown of spiritual writers
  • Earnest prayer
  • Venerable Ephraim of Caves
  • "Learn to humble yourself, and you will always be calm"
  • About Venerable Ephraim the Syrian
  • What sick people should especially take care of
  • "It is impossible for a person who fights evil not to experience sorrows"
  • "You just need to humble yourself more"
  • In obedience to the elder
  • About purification of the soul
  • What should the soul be supplied with?
  • "When you see that you cannot cope"
  • The hard way of foolishness
  • Instruction to a nun
  • About the Publican and the Pharisee
  • Reading the Psalter on infants and suicides
  • Venerable Macarius of Zhabyn
  • Prayer rule
  • "There is no better happiness on earth..."
  • For the good of our salvation
  • Venerable Euthymius the Great
  • Don't be offended by him, he's a neurasthenic
  • Venerable Herman of Zosima
  • He is not mentally ill
  • From a eulogy to St. Athanasius the Great, Archbishop of Alexandria
  • Christ heals mental diseases
  • Blessed Anthony's story
  • Advice for a woman subject to melancholy
  • "What you angered God by, propitiate Him"
  • "You're completely unglued!"
  • "Rejoice evermore" (1 Thes. 5, 16)
  • A pious chanter conveys the grace of God
  • "Nothing can ever stand before the name of the Lord"
  • Byzantine singing is permeated with humility
  • Every lie is disgusting for God
  • This is how we raised the initial capital
  • Soul house
  • In Orthodoxy everything is in balance
  • Pilgrimage to Jerusalem of Saint Euphrosyne of Polotsk
  • We are only stewards of earthly goods
  • "In conscience, God Himself speaks."
  • So you can't win chiliasm
  • "Repent: for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand" (Matt. 4, 17)
  • Without violence against yourself, with meekness surrender into the hands of God
  • About Abba Elijah
  • The joy of resurrection overcomes sorrow
  • "Every service is assigned to a person by God"
  • There is no need to wave one's hands to drive out the darkness
  • Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord
  • He bathed in light
  • Ascetics of Pskov Caves
  • If he dares to wash his hair, he will immediately... die!
  • Orthodox Church
  • ...Because you don't have a strong love for Christ
  • On the salvation of the soul
  • The Elder read various cognitive literature
  • Venerable Seraphim of Sarov
  • For the glory of God
  • Circumcision of the Lord
  • Why do you feel obligated?
  • About saints (In the fire of temptations, the saints acquired holiness and spiritual experience...)
  • God doesn't need titles...
  • Spiritual image of St. Macarius of Moscow
  • We are praised and we accept praise
  • About Venerable Mark the Gravedigger
  • What others want and how they want
  • Venerable Cornelius of Krypetsy
  • True humility is a gift from God
  • From the Life of Blessed Andrew of Totma
  • I wanted to ask your forgiveness
  • About the attitude to sorrows
  • Don't write down what I tell you
  • Feast of the Nativity of Christ
  • He accepted criticism with gladness
  • Miracle of all miracles
  • I have many sins
  • On the power of prayer
  • Which plot is to buy
  • "I was in prison, and ye came unto Me" (Matt. 25, 36)
  • Onions, lettuce and carrots
  • About the childhood of Venerable Paisius (Velichkovsky)
  • Short advices
  • Saint Philogonius, Bishop of Antioch
  • Draw close to God by the memory of love
  • On the performance of Christian duties
  • Your child will unite you
  • In the temple of God there is food for the soul
  • Marital abstinence nearly destroyed love
  • Service and chores in the church
  • That's why I advised you to have a baby
  • Sacrifice and participate in the affairs of the neighbour
  • The great sin is to avoid childbearing
  • On Communion of the Divine Mysteries of Christ
  • The Elder unites a broken family
  • The latest generation
  • The more you grumble, the later he comes back
  • Martyrs Eustratius, Auxentius, Eugene, Mardarius and Orestes
  • Choosing a spouse under the influence of sensual infatuation
  • Christ alone made a great and saving redemption and healing of the soul
  • Such a marriage is also possible
  • Venerable Daniel the Stylite
  • Many children are born thanks to my advice
  • "Make sure... that you are really a weak and infirm being"
  • Heartfelt lament before God
  • The Elder blesses and protects the marriage
  • About Abba Paphnutius
  • Knock on the doors of God like a well-mannered person, with prayer and trust
  • St. Ambrose of Milan
  • Let's pray to become worthy of God's love
  • St. Nicholas Peshnosha Monastery
  • Let's pray at the appointed time
  • From the instructions of Venerable Ephraim the Syrian
  • Great help from night prayer
  • On reading of Divine Scripture
  • How can we meet Christ in the world?
  • A vision of a wanderer's soul taken to heaven by angels
  • Temptation during the Jesus Prayer
  • "Grace is a heavenly fire within you"
  • Private instructions on noetic prayer
  • About fighting with pride
  • Various advices about prayer
  • About Christianity
  • We can unite
  • "Not every good desire enters the heart from God, but only that which is beneficial"
  • Keep saying the Jesus Prayer without ceasing
  • Lives of the Saints
  • Help them with your prayer
  • "The reliquary of the venerable... is a blessed source of consolation"
  • Don't say all the time, "My God, I'm a sinner!"
  • About patience
  • Prayer with the Elder. A blindingly bright light filled my room
  • Yablochinsky St. Onuphrius Monastery
  • The Elder teaches us to pray
  • "For of such is the Kingdom of God" (Lk. 18, 16)
  • Most of all I help you with my prayers
  • "But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt" (Gen. 19, 26)
  • The Elder takes my head in his hands and prays
  • About obedience (It was said of Abba Silouan that he had a disciple named Mark, who had great obedience and was a good scribe...)
  • "I would gratefully endure such anxiety..."
  • The Elder's prayers brought peace to some, anxiety to others
  • "I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord" (Ps. 122, 1 KJV)
  • The power of the Elder's prayer
  • From the Life of Hieromartyr Vladimir Medvediuk
  • You and I are one
  • Uncovering the relics of Venerable Martyr Adrian of Poshekhonye
  • Prayer is born out of love for Christ
  • Repentance leads the soul to salvation
  • Prayer is the mother of all blessings
  • Venerable Nikon of Radonezh
  • The engagement was going to break up
  • Apostle and Evangelist Matthew
  • He told me about all my problems
  • Hieromartyr Aviv
  • He really wants to have a son
  • "The remnants of ancient Byzantium..."
  • In desperation, she cried all evening
  • "It is necessary to restrain and control the mind"
  • "O Most Holy Mother..."
  • Fulfil the commandments of Christ, and you'll see all your difficulties be resolved by themselves
  • About pride (The flash of lightning foreshadows a thunderous blow, and pride is foreshadowed by the appearance of vanity...)
  • With fatherly care
  • Vision of Venerable Hilarion of Dalmatia
  • Divine and human
  • Difference between talking and deeds
  • The Elder's patience was boundless
  • "God wants this most of all in relation to man"
  • Despondency, humble wisdom, and a confessor
  • Venerable Macarius of Altai and Glinsk Hermitage
  • Act according to the blessing of the Church and confessor
  • "For by grace are ye saved through faith"
  • An Elder devoid of discretion
  • Hieromartyr Nikita, Bishop of Orekhovo-Zuevo
  • Pay close attention to what you say to the confessors
  • Shelling of the Moscow Kremlin
  • Oh, how deluded he is!
  • Blessed Simon of Yurievets
  • Some confessors commit a crime
  • Love the temple of God!
  • See which confessor you go to confession
  • "In Thy light shall we see light"
  • Break up with your mother-in-law
  • About the judgements of God
  • Tell your children what they must do
  • Hieromartyr John Kochurov
  • When parents don't get along, they grow difficult children
  • About the Serbian people
  • Advices for parents about children
  • "Where there is God, everything is good"
  • An indifferent young man becomes a believer
  • "The speech of the saint is truly honeyed"
  • Concede to save your child
  • Venerable Martyr Sergius (Chernukhin)
  • For the sake of children, he stood on his feet all the way
  • Faith (O my faith, pure, holy, a miraculous jet art thou...)
  • When, contrary to your nature, you feel like a girl or a boy
  • "And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way" (Jon. 3, 10)
  • ...He appears with a whole company of hippies
  • "Nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me" (Gal. 2, 20)
  • Don't tell your students about Christ
  • About the fact that it is a due to pray
  • They have sinned with all sins, but I love them!
  • "Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her"
  • Unhealthy relationships
  • "So run, that ye may obtain" (1 Cor. 9, 24)
  • You are showing excessive love to one of your children
  • The gift of love to the Lord
  • How to raise children
  • On dealing with anger
  • Tomorrow her drug addict son will beat her, and I can't help her...
  • From the Life of Hieromartyr Andrei Voskresensky
  • Children suffering from neurasthenia
  • On the miraculous rescue of Alexander III and his family in 1888
  • Never wish evil on your children
  • From the admonitions of Venerable Abba Isaiah
  • Human love hurts a child
  • About worship
  • You do not love your child with the love of Christ and therefore harm him
  • About the patience of evil
  • Tell the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • From a word about holy icons
  • I want to leave my parents
  • About carrying the cross
  • For so many years you made him do...
  • About Venerable Ambrose of Optina
  • Children should not be forced
  • Saint Amphilochius, Bishop of Vladimir-Volynsky
  • Do what Christ calls you to do, and all your problems will be solved
  • About Venerable Sebastian (Fomin)
  • His wife and children were not in church
  • Penetrating the wounded soul
  • Advices for a widow and orphans
  • Day of the Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus
  • Pray for the children
  • About unbelief
  • The more you pray, the more your daughter receives good thoughts
  • Moscow
  • "Spiritual caress" of prayer
  • Hieromartyr Tikhon Arkhangelsky
  • "Confused" children of "confusing" parents
  • Twilight
  • Salvation of the child depends on your own sanctification
  • Righteous Warrior Theodore Ushakov
  • The boy rebelled because of your pride
  • Word on the day of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos
  • Instructions for pregnant women
  • Martyr Apollinaria Tupitsyna
  • The fears of the mother passed on to the child
  • From the teachings of Venerable Macarius the Great (Just as iron, or lead, or gold, or silver, put in fire, lose the property of hardness...)
  • He is little, but... he understands a lot!
  • The resting place of the parents of St. Sergius of Radonezh
  • You hurt even if you are silent
  • "Let not the sun go down upon your wrath" (Eph. 4, 26)
  • Will you have an abortion?
  • "Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead" (Rev. 3, 1)
  • Love for Christ casts out passions
  • "In singing, vigil and reverence being the image for thy disciples"
  • And the old man won't bother us anymore
  • About the need to accustom oneself to repentance for sins
  • For the first time I understood what Orthodoxy means
  • "Every sin is foolishness, and every sinner is foolish"
  • Don't believe in dreams
  • Blessed Paraskeva of Diveevo
  • Missionary without preaching
  • By the 270th anniversary of finding the relics of St. Demetrius of Rostov
  • Advices of Father Porphyrios to monks
  • At the midnight hour
  • There, in the monastery...
  • Blessed Prince Igor of Chernigov and Kiev
  • Even when you're accused unfairly, don't object
  • Venerable Alexis of Zosima
  • Bless, Geronda
  • Through sorrows and feats, we have to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
  • With tonsure in the cassock Christ will take you into His arms
  • "We are of the same spirit with him"
  • Wanting and having real chances to become a real monk are two different things
  • Great Martyr Nikita
  • In the monastery I get tired
  • About the purpose of a Christian's life
  • Instructive memoirs of Father Porphyrios about the Holy Mountain
  • "Come thou and all thy house into the ark" (Gen. 7, 1)
  • I don't see in you that first Divine love that you had
  • The beginning of the Vysotsky Monastery in Serpukhov
  • Obedience being fulfilled with joy, and unceasing prayer
  • From the notes of Venerable Silouan of Athos
  • Do the monks... take care to save only their souls?
  • "We're hidden in the catacombs dark..."
  • Novice's Prayer
  • Glinsk Hermitage
  • Convent is not for you
  • From the word on the day of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • She did not obey and... accepted as a novice!
  • Imitate the life of your saint
  • Which convent is better to go to?
  • About Martyrius, a monk of the Valerian region
  • Advices for a father and his son who wants to become a monk
  • Parable of the marriage feast
  • About St. Joasaph of Belgorod
  • She wanted to become a nun, which caused her mother's displeasure
  • About the life of the righteous in Paradise
  • Marriage or virginity?
  • "A holy man is also a miracle of God"
  • The value of bows
  • Gethsemane Chernigov Skete
  • When bowing, the body also participates in prayer
  • The call of God
  • Bows have a double benefit
  • "Matter of salvation is not in the environment, but in the soul of a person"
  • In the sewing workshop
  • From the word on the Beheading of John the Baptist
  • Masons wage invisible warfare, so they are dangerous
  • Monastic tonsure of Venerable Moses of Optina
  • That's where we've come to...
  • "We hope for the grace of God and watch our minds"
  • Don't resent unfair accusations
  • Veneration of Venerable Mary of Egypt in the Sretensky Monastery
  • Get it out of your head
  • Remember God
  • The devil through thoughts pulls us by the hand
  • From instructions of Venerable Isaac the Syrian
  • Behaviour in the temple
  • Soul and body
  • The Elder [was] a clergyman
  • "Thy Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness" (Ps. 143, 10 KJV)
  • Prayer in the temple
  • Venerable Martyr Ignatius (Dalanov)
  • The Power of Sacrament
  • About the God-pleasing life of various fathers
  • Preparing for Communion
  • Prayer of a lad
  • Do not condemn evil, but correct it
  • Spiritual Light
  • The Elder did not condemn anyone for his beliefs
  • Hieromartyr Demetrius Ostroumov
  • By condemning a brother, we push him to an even greater fall
  • On the veneration of icons
  • Not all who've committed a crime are villains
  • Pskov-Caves Icon of the Assumption
  • Don't judge even if you see sin
  • The Assumption Cathedral of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra
  • The Elder did not see "guilty" ones among the surrounding people
  • About Venerable Anatoly of Optina, Jr.
  • How to quit smoking?
  • The fruits of labours done for the sake of virtue
  • Entangled in the nets of Hinduism
  • Feats in the seclusion of Venerable John of the Holy Mountain
  • How can you become a priest if you don't quit smoking?
  • Venerable Sabbas of Storozhi
  • How a priest quit smoking
  • About Reading the Lives of the Saints
  • The right hand of the priest
  • By the 30th anniversary of the second transfer of the relics of the Solovki wonderworkers
  • Seeing the priest standing with raised hands, the German let the girl go
  • To the 190th anniversary of finding the relics of St. Mitrophan of Voronezh
  • Make an exorcism with reasoning. Commemoration of the sick at proskomedia
  • Transfiguration is the image of the future age
  • Advice to a pediatrician
  • To mother who reposed in the sanctuary
  • They turn and to psychiatrists
  • By 305th anniversary of glorification of Penza-Kazan Icon
  • Geronda, I'm angry
  • Venerable Anthony the Roman
  • The reason for your "slowness" are experiences
  • From the Life of Venerable Moses of Optina
  • Your children suffer because you grieve
  • Venerable Martyr Sergius (Shein)
  • When sadness comes
  • About the death of Venerable Anatoly of Optina, Jr.
  • When Christ settles in our soul, then all sorrows will go away
  • On the seizure of Church valuables in Petrograd in 1922
  • A peaceful soul enlightens the mind
  • Kostroma Icon of the Mother of God
  • To be very upset means to fall into the net of the devil
  • Venerable Herman of Alaska
  • Surrendering himself to God, he overcomes all obstacles
  • Everything is from God
  • Great sorrow will turn into endless joy
  • Reasoning about sins is also superfluous
  • I live under the fear of reprimand
  • "Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb will help you"
  • Love the temptations
  • From instructions of Venerable Macarius the Great
  • Thank God for temptations
  • God sets examples of His mercy everywhere
  • The one who offends you is the victim of the devil
  • From the teachings of the elders
  • Restonsibly and with great caution
  • Venerable Abrahamius of Galich
  • How we can help our deceased ones
  • On the glorification of Venerable Seraphim
  • Become immortal already now
  • Faith (According to your faith be it unto you...)
  • During the burial, a bright light shone
  • Christian self-sacrifice
  • We won't taste death
  • Setting up a soul house
  • There is no death
  • Holy Russ
  • Don't doubt the greatness of heavenly abodes
  • Foundation of the Stephen-Makhrishchi Monastery
  • The souls of those who do what is right are in God's hand. They won't feel the pain of torment
  • "Out of love for one's neighbour"
  • Follow the style that everyone where you live adheres to
  • "Thus the number of thy disciples will increase"
  • You are very sensitive and can't stand any offense
  • Miracle of the Great Martyr Euphemia
  • Christ makes a man from a savage
  • Prayer is like a wall protecting a city from the enemy
  • Is mutual attraction between a man and a woman good or bad?
  • "To fear God, pray to God, and do good to your neighbour are the three main virtues"
  • Enchanted youth
  • From a letter from Venerable Anatoly of Optina, Jr.
  • Story of Maria, Dimitrios and Georgios
  • Venerable Evdokia (Euphrosyne), Princess of Moscow
  • Labour changes both soul and body
  • "Like a good disciple of Blessed Sergius..."
  • No to laziness and amateur Christianity
  • To the 600th anniversary of finding the relics of Venerable Sergius of Radonezh
  • For the sake of bodily labour
  • To those who are few
  • The industriousness of the Elder
  • On the necessity of the intramural funeral prayer service
  • Help with setting up a farm
  • Foundation of the Paraclete Skete
  • First, the Elder reprimanded, and then praised
  • About Serbia and Serbs
  • "Not servitude, but righteousness that leads to sonship"
  • Try to change your life from today
  • Consign to oblivion all your merits
  • Don't speak again of already confessed sins
  • Venerable Sergius and Herman of Valaam
  • For disobedience, grace left... but returned with confession
  • Gracious help through prayers of Venerable Ambrose of Optina
  • Full confession
  • "Ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life"
  • Atmosphere of peace and trust
  • Venerable Dalmat of Iset
  • Confession and enmity
  • From instruction of Venerable Neil of Sinai
  • How the Elder confessed people
  • On the death of the Martyr Nikita Sukharev
  • It is a gift of God's love to a person
  • Venerable George (Lavrov)
  • The main thing is internal order
  • Martyr Luarsab II, King of Kartli
  • Will our girl wear pants?
  • About life in Christ
  • Whom am I to vote for, Geronda?
  • "The same name, but the lives are different"
  • Father Porphyrios possessed churchly consciousness
  • From the Life of St. Victor, Bishop of Glazov
  • Uncreated Church
  • Venerable Moses of Optina
  • Reckless "sermon"
  • About the transfer of the relics of St. Theophane the Recluse
  • Saying that he respects you, he unconsciously neglects you
  • About Hieromartyr Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kiev
  • God respects our will
  • St. Methodius, Patriarch of Constantinople
  • She needs to be willing to come by herself
  • Venerable Andronicus of Moscow
  • An obsessive sermon
  • Venerable Arsenius Konevsky
  • Until I'm asked, I don't talk to anyone about Christ
  • Venerable Ephraim Novotorzhsky
  • It is not worth proposing him to come to me again
  • Venerable Tamar (Mardzhanova)
  • He did not want to make us copies of himself
  • Before death of Righteous Alexis of Moscow
  • Don't remind anyone of his mistakes
  • By the 195th anniversary of the appearance of the Uryupinsk Icon
  • What, when and how the Elder told us
  • From a letter of the New Martyr Raphael (Sheichenko)
  • When the evil one cannot overcome us in an invisible battle
  • About saints (How many raindrops are in a cloud? Who can count?..)
  • Satan seeks to make scandals in the house
  • Igor Icon of the Mother of God
  • Be attentive: the devil creates problems
  • "Interlocutor and Co-faster to Venrable Sergius"
  • Words of the demoniacs can be a trap
  • Icon of the Mother of God "The guarantor of sinners", of Koretsk
  • Let's turn on the light, and the darkness will go away by itself
  • "Ye shall know them by their fruits"
  • The evil one is very weak
  • "He believed beyond any doubt"
  • "Lend, hoping for nothing again" (Lk. 6, 35)
  • About the Holy Spirit
  • Read the New Testament and the Lives of the Saints
  • "If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink" (Jn. 7, 37)
  • Not all books bring benefit
  • Trinity Cathedral, the main temple of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra
  • How I learnt to read
  • Venerable Elena of Diveevo
  • Read it right
  • By 550th anniversary of the transfer of the relics of Moscow Sts. Cyprian, Photius and Jonas
  • Read Holy Scripture more
  • Venerable Martyress Hermogena Kadomtseva
  • Geronda, I can't take it anymore, he constantly quarrels!
  • About the repose of St. Innocent of Kherson
  • Let the Elder remain in the shadows
  • "Strength of the archpastor lies in the possibly frequent and close communication with the people"
  • It will be very difficult for you with her
  • On the election of the Hieromartyr Benjamin (Kazansky) to the Petrograd Chair
  • Coercion to create a family
  • "I could not... calmly, silently endure all this"
  • Postponement of marriage
  • "As you bless me"
  • Marriage or celibacy
  • From a word on the Ascension of the Lord
  • Love and law
  • Saint Michael Vinogradov, Confessor, Presbyter
  • Don't hold her back with fear. She will be back
  • From the words of Venerable Macarius of Altai about the temple
  • You need to pray a lot, not talk a lot
  • Righteous John of Korma
  • Salvation from suicide
  • About what the Siloam font represented for a believer
  • Surround her with your fervent prayers
  • On the relics of Venerable Arsenius Konevsky
  • Joy in the Lord will heal you
  • "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul" (Matt. 10, 28)
  • Tips, diagnoses, prescriptions
  • Righteous virgin Glyceria
  • Having paid extra for the treatment, he moved to a better clinic
  • Venerable Dionysius of Radonezh
  • Look after your health
  • Equal-to-the-Apostles Methodius and Cyril
  • Bless
  • Hieromartyr Peter Popov
  • Trust in God and you will be saved
  • "Often I resort to reading this speech of the prophet..."
  • Postpone the operation
  • From the Life of the Martyr Nikifor Zaitsev
  • Test of patience
  • Micah Church of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra
  • Thanks to diseases, we become better
  • The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away (Job. 1, 21)
  • Cancerous tumour of the Elder and his holy patience
  • Venerable Micah of Radonezh
  • If you have such a faith, then you do not need doctors
  • Hieromartyr John Vasiliev
  • "From my many sins..."
  • Nothing should start without prayer
  • I was very sick. It was wonderful
  • About the feat of passion-bearing
  • I will pray for you and you will get better
  • Hieromartyr Macarius, Metropolitan of Kyiv
  • I made the sign of the cross on her and she was healed
  • On the early years of St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)
  • Prayer and sickness
  • Thoughts during a thunderstorm
  • Pray for me to be good one, but not for me to feel well
  • Hieromartyr Victor Karakulin
  • Illness becomes a real boon
  • Hieromartyr Basil of Amasia
  • Sickness is God's visitation
  • Righteous Glaphyra
  • Diseases from demons
  • Venerable Basil of Poiana Mărului
  • Our life depends on ourselves
  • Martyr Sabbas Stratelates
  • Jealousy and oncological diseases
  • By the 10th anniversary of the second finding of the copy of the Iveron Icon
  • Medicines. Christ. Physicians
  • Martyr Demetrius Vlasenkov
  • Soul's and bodily ailments
  • From the Life of Venerable Anatoly of Optina, the Younger
  • How to overcome excessive sadness
  • Saint Theodosius the Confessor, Bishop of Kolomna
  • God saves us amid our troubles
  • Blessed Matrona of Moscow
  • Complexes, humility and despondency
  • From a word on the Sunday of Thomas
  • Psychological problems
  • "Though a day but mine, and before the throne of God!"
  • At least do not back down
  • From the diary of Venerable Nikon of Optina (Once a priest (Ven. Barsanuphius of Optina – Ed.) asked me: "When were you tonsured for a cassock?..")
  • There is no place for despair in the Church
  • From the Life of the Martyr Sabbas of Goths
  • "They will be sad if their love is human"
  • Vilna martyrs
  • Family tribulations and the achievement of holiness
  • Shuya Resurrection Cathedral
  • The number 666 and the antichrist
  • About the Cross and Resurrection
  • I do not worry
  • Christ is risen! (From Heaven gratifies us thing, And on earth from all the hearts...)
  • The Elder did not separate himself from sinners
  • From a letter from Martyr Demetrius Vdovin to his wife from emprisonment
  • In the house of tolerance
  • "Reflection on the sufferings of the Lord save a Christian from all troubles"
  • Injustice
  • "This do in remembrance of Me"
  • Holy places
  • Martyr Gabriel Fomin
  • Good intentions
  • A Lesson in Spiritual Sobriety
  • Accept the gift of love
  • "Our whole life is turned towards the eternal Pascha"
  • A small gift is great love
  • Hieromartyr Nicholas, Bishop of Velsk
  • Church of Venerable Mary of Egypt in Optina Hermitage
  • Three days of prayer and fasting
  • Foundation of the Saviour-Bethany Monastery
  • I see that you are suffering
  • About the death of Venerable Mary of Egypt
  • Impartiality
  • Venerable Euthymius, Archimandrite of Suzdal
  • Confessor Vasily Malakhov's answer to a question about the renovationists
  • And at night the Elder answered the phone calls
  • The elders say
  • Cry for what is to come
  • Venerable Martyr Eustratius of the Caves
  • Rudeness achieves nothing
  • From the Life of Venerable Mary of Egypt
  • Lack of malicious memory
  • "Rejoice, Bride not Bride!"
  • Condescension
  • True Penitent and False Penitent
  • Don't expect to be loved
  • Annunciation Kirzhach Convent
  • Paradise is the love for Christ
  • The wheat of grace and the tares of vice
  • "Love is put in us like a grain"
  • Let's love Christ as much as possible
  • Venerable Mary of Egypt is a specimen of true repentance
  • Love in simplicity, without fear
  • On resisting temptations
  • How to have loved Christ?
  • "Remember" and "remember"
  • Love for God
  • Sacrament of Repentance
  • Hear a call to life with Christ
  • On the patience of temptations
  • Christ is everything
  • "We accepted the good, let us accept the bad without a murmur"
  • Prayer (With a spiritual eye I contemplated...)
  • Venerable Alexis of Holosieve
  • "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers"
  • About gold coins miraculously found by the debtor
  • "Are you a Christian, man?"
  • About the human soul
  • Volokolamsk Icon of the Mother of God
  • We must value our faith!
  • From the Life of Hieromartyr Alexander Ilyenkov
  • Serapion Chamber
  • Hieromartyr Arseny of Rostov
  • Sign of the Cross
  • From the statement of Hieromartyr Sergius Uvitsky during the investigation
  • Venerable Barnabas of Gethsemane
  • Prayer (Before Thee in these days of repentance...)
  • Soul clad in the armour of truth
  • Pre-Christmas thoughts
  • About the Cross and the Love of God
  • Venerable Martyr Philaret (Pryakhin)
  • "Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden..." (Gen. 3, 23)
  • Thoughts for 31th Sunday
  • From the teachings of Venerable Macarius the Great (Adam, having transgressed the commandment, was expelled from paradise and incurred the wrath of God...)
  • "I"
  • Martyr Dimitri Volkov
  • Reading (Conversations and reading without doing [the commandments] will not bring any benefit...)
  • "The deed is an anchor for thought"
  • Kingdom of God
  • Saint Macarius of Moscow
  • The Church (...is not the earth, it is a piece of heaven...)
  • Venerable Maruthas, Bishop of Mesopotamia
  • Christ the Saviour
  • He who fulfilled the commandment of God to honour parents
  • Household relations, philosophy and Christianity
  • About thoughts
  • Do not teach anyone having so much rubbish in your head
  • "When of element of the beyond..."
  • The only case can one teach one's neighbour
  • From a word on the day of St. Alexius of Moscow
  • "Do not succumb to the enemy's suggestions and thoughts"
  • On the burial of Equal-to-the-Apostles Nicholas of Japan
  • "Let us not lose heart, having such a Lord"
  • Prayer intercession of the Saints
  • "Despondency is a hidden grumbling"
  • On the acquisition of the relics of St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow
  • "When you are being overcome by despondency and longing..."
  • From the Life of Hieromartyr Alexander Abissov
  • Advice to a beginner about the despondency that has come to him
  • Parable of the Prodigal Son (Lk. 15, 11–32)
  • "Never despair or lose hope in God"
  • From the annals of the Trinity-Sergius Varnitsky Monastery
  • Seclusion
  • Martyr Michael Amelyushkin
  • Bear any reproofs, do not compete, give up all of your own
  • Venerable Cyril of New Lake
  • Consider yourself worthy of hell and beg the Lord for mercy
  • About the Repose of Equal-to-the-Apostles Nicholas of Japan
  • Vanity is like cancer in the body
  • From the word on the day of the Presentation of the Lord
  • Sacraments
  • From the Life of Venerable Confessor Leontius (Stasevich)
  • Conjugality
  • From a conversation on the Sunday of the publican and the Pharisee
  • Bustle
  • On the necessity to know Divine Scripture
  • "Be ready for the fact that any passion may manifest itself"
  • Faithful to Christ even unto death
  • "We ourselves cannot overcome and defeat passions and demons"
  • Venerable Leontius (Stasevich)
  • We are not saved by works, but by the mercy of God
  • Venerable Ephraim the Syrian
  • The right path leading to salvation
  • "Let us... vigilantly walk the path of God"
  • To those who want to study Christianity by experience
  • To the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, beaten by the godless
  • Never advise anyone unless asked
  • "It is necessary, like Zacchaeus, to sincerely have hated your sin..."
  • Dreams (Then I warn you not to believe in dreams...)
  • Episcopal consecration of Hieromartyr Benjamin (Kazansky)
  • "The infinite wisdom of God finds a means to humble man"
  • Novotorzhsky Borisoglebsky Monastery
  • "True humility cannot be an obstacle to anything good"
  • "The prayer of the righteous can be succeeded... much"
  • "It is [necessary] to humble yourself not externally, but internally"
  • Purpose and end of asceticism
  • "Be afraid of a high opinion of yourself"
  • "If any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him"
  • "All efforts of those who want to live spiritually should be directed towards achieving humility"
  • Parents of Venerable Sergius of Radonezh
  • "Only by the hand of humility can a person receive harmlessly for himself any gifts from the Lord"
  • "My book is all visible creation, created by God"
  • "Everyone should prepare for death and think about it at least a little every day"
  • Abbacy in the Optina Desert
  • Sincere repentance and non-judgement of neighbour removes senseless fear of death
  • There is no such state of soul when it is impossible to repent
  • "Be ready at every hour"
  • "Do not become stagnant in sin; but rise up and turn to the Lord God."
  • On the threshold of eternity
  • To commemorate the deliverance of the Trinity Sergius Lavra from the siege
  • The Word of God
  • From the sayings of the elders
  • "Sorrows and illnesses force a person to break away from earthly interests and turn to God"
  • By the 140th anniversary of the repose of Venerable Antipas of Valaam
  • "Joy and love for God are hidden in sorrows"
  • Venerable Jonah of Kiev
  • "The Lord, not people, gives us all who want to be saved a cup of sorrows"
  • Hieromartyr Isidore the Presbyter and with him 72 martyrs
  • Use sorrows to great success in spiritual life
  • Hieromartyr Victor Usov
  • Having cleansed himself, person can see necessity of his sorrows
  • "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God"
  • "We are saved exclusively by uncomplaining patience of sorrows"
  • "The Holy Church... tries everywhere and always to protect us with a shrine"
  • "There is no other way to the Kingdom of God except the cross one"
  • "Brotherhood in Christ... is better than brotherhood in the flesh!"
  • We are grieving because faith and hope in the Lord are still too weak in us
  • "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord" (Mk. 1, 3)
  • "If the Lord suffered for us, how can we not be... participants in the sufferings of Christ?!"
  • "Tell me your sorrow, and I, as a living one, will hear you"
  • Holy Fathers
  • Oh, how great is the evil of envy!
  • Anyone that climbs into a noose, the demons will strangle him against his will
  • "Ye have need of patience" (Heb. 10, 36)
  • Persuading a lady not to commit suicide because of a quarrel with another lady
  • Hieromartyr Zoticus Presbyter, orphan feeder
  • Self-love, self-justification
  • About icons of saints
  • Murmur ( We need to call on the name of God more often...)
  • About honouring the memory of saints
  • Spouse's duty to jointly overcome the weakness of drunkenness. Power of demons over a drunkard
  • Trust in God and thoughts of death
  • Correct those who drink by the spirit of meekness
  • "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh" (1 Tim. 3, 16)
  • To those standing on the edge of a precipice
  • From the word for Christmas
  • Protestantism. Entertainments
  • About the need to admit your guilt and ask for forgiveness from the offender
  • The enemies cannot do anything without God's permission. Against sentimentality
  • The purpose of the incarnation of the Lord
  • "Only through the cross is man reborn"
  • It is necessary to be faithful to Christ in all circumstances
  • "There is not the slightest movement in the whole world without the knowledge and permission of God"
  • "When ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites..." (Matt. 6, 16)
  • Whoever the Lord loves, He punishes and tears off the earth with sorrows
  • Every Christian should be an image of God
  • "Lay all your sorrows, perplexities, fears, resentments from demons and people on the Lord"
  • "I sincerely wish you to be confirmed in virtues"
  • Holy Communion
  • The most important part of Repentance
  • "Everyone should be afraid of falling into the seduction"
  • Hieromartyr Thaddeus, Archbishop of Tver
  • "If there is no repentance, then there is a seduction"
  • Strive for what the other needs
  • Repentance will replace everything
  • There is no Holy Scripture outside the Church
  • "We all do not live the way we should"
  • The most important work of a person is prayer
  • "The Lord knows what is useful and necessary for a person"
  • The appointment of St. Alexius as a vicar of the Metropolitan of Moscow
  • "We must show our loyalty to the Lord by fighting against sin"
  • "The sleeping in a dungeon"
  • What should we do?
  • How to understand what another person needs to do this for him?
  • Praise (Be more humble and do not philosophize too highly...)
  • "Pray without ceasing" (1 Thes. 5, 17)
  • "Fasting, brethren, bodily, let us fast also spiritually..."
  • If the Mother of God departs from us, life will be orphaned
  • Besides the worldly life there is a life of the spirit
  • The image and activity of Ven. Sergius
  • Gain experience, without which the whole building will collapse
  • You need to be vigilant to yourself
  • Peace. Thoughts
  • On the moral height of the Most Holy Theotokos
  • The Lord has not put a limit to repentance
  • Pleaser of God Nicholas
  • "If a sinner does not repent, he remains outside the Church"
  • "Earthly... beauty cannot satisfy the spiritual hunger of man"
  • "Cover everything with repentance and self-condemnation"
  • From the teachings of St. Seraphim of Vyritsa
  • "If you are not aware of sins, it does not mean that you do not have them"
  • Teach children by example
  • God wants to save all people, but their self-esteem hinders salvation
  • On the necessity of reasoning
  • The only means to receive forgiveness of sins
  • Love each other
  • The proof of sincerity and depth of repentance
  • "Loving children, you need to temper them already from childhood"
  • Measure of feat. Self-knowledge. Repentance
  • "You need to read with attention and try to live in the spirit of what you read"
  • It is better to do a little for God's sake
  • Hieromartyr Metropolitan Seraphim (Chichagov)
  • "All bodily feats should contribute to the inner one"
  • Great Martyr Jacob the Persian
  • What it means to have arrangement of a publican
  • "Such one is like rotten bread"
  • "You have nothing to think about bodily feats"
  • The best guide to salvation
  • Easter, Letters and Behaviour
  • "So shall the King greatly desire thy beauty" (Ps. 45, 11 KJV)
  • Condemnation (And most important is to keep peace with your neighbours...)
  • The faith of Christ is the source of the greatest inspiration
  • Impoverishment of faith
  • About the care of parents
  • The all who offended you are your benefactors
  • On the day of Presentation of the Most Holy Theotokos
  • Receive every offense, injustice, and sorrow as the due reward of your deeds
  • Saint Proclus of Constantinople
  • ...I say and don't do what I should. Woe to me!
  • Contrition about sins is no less important than their conscientious enumeration
  • "From the course of affairs, understand the will of God"
  • About the life and times of St. Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow
  • "To understand, you need to experience"
  • Humility alone can bring peace to the soul
  • Not a spiritual father, but an older companion on the same path
  • "The Gospel is not a book the same as all of them, but the wiser of them"
  • "Maybe that's why there are no fathers, because there are no capable children"
  • The feat of fasting
  • What does still maintain an interest in life?
  • How to save the soul
  • Rite (form)
  • Life for the Kingdom of God
  • Saved in the last times by the uncomplaining patience will be glorified above the ancient Fathers
  • Walking in the works of God
  • "We must humble ourselves before God's definitions"
  • "Our divine services have a great treasure"
  • Science
  • About care of the sick
  • A special gift of God
  • What is happiness?
  • "The devil often inspires very good wishes at the wrong time and beyond one's strength"
  • Angels (Angels constantly serve our salvation together with the holy people of God...)
  • "Salvation is through repentance of one's sins, and not through condemnation of one's neighbours"
  • Hieromartyr Cyril, the Metropolitan of Kazan
  • "Where would you be other?"
  • Irritability lives in our hearts instead of meekness
  • Silence (The Lord was silent when He was accused...)
  • "The Creator has put protective functions into our nature"
  • "A terrible, powerful tool for our salvation and struggle with the devil"
  • Venerable Joannicius the Great
  • "Use the yearning of the heart to develop inner (Jesus) prayer"
  • "He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much" (Lk. 16, 10)
  • "Stand up to prayer in peace of soul and with a contrite heart"
  • About the purity of the heart
  • Try always to sigh several times to the Lord
  • Faith in Christ
  • Hieromartyr Vladimir Sobolev
  • About sense of the presence of God at prayer
  • God is our Doctor
  • How you can receive grace-filled prayer in due time
  • "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God" (Matt. 5, 9)
  • "It is always necessary to force yourself to prayer." A sign of the correctness of spiritual work
  • We pray very little
  • Healing of a sick hand
  • How to acquire a proper undistracted prayer
  • Faith and love
  • "It is necessary to bare oneself before God in prayer and repent before Him"
  • "Our touchiness comes mainly from self-love"
  • Do not ask God for anything else, but only pardon and mercy
  • Sin blinds us
  • Peace of Christ (Be attentive to yourself. Keep the peace, make peace quickly...)
  • Hope
  • "Do not be afraid of death by the flesh"
  • This world
  • "We will escape God's condemnation only if we condemn ourselves"
  • Mercy. Alms
  • Speak to God a lot, but to people a little
  • Carnal love with a proper Christian life is replaced by a much deeper and truer one
  • "Do you all... always pray diligently to the Mother of God?"
  • A human must rise above natural affection, acquire spiritual love and sacrifice himself
  • From the life of Venerable Hilarion the Great
  • "Become partakers of the sufferings of Christ"
  • About idle talk (If the tongue is chattering and idle, then and thoughts wander...)
  • "As love grows, the desire to endure everything will increase"
  • The essence of repentance is the determination to change life
  • "With the love of God, the rightness of God is also connected"
  • Shrines of Joseph-Volotsky Monastery
  • "Love always corrects the beloved"
  • The Mother of God and the Righteous Lazarus
  • "The Lord pities every sinner and waits only for his conversion"
  • God's Providence
  • "The sins of the whole world are drowning in the sea of God's love"
  • Prayer (Prayer brings a person closer to God, it is a conversation with Him...)
  • Remember that God Himself, the Creator of the whole world, suffered for the destruction of evil
  • Self-justification (Self-justification has nothing to do with spiritual life...)
  • Conscience will reproach us that we have not reciprocated the God's love
  • "Whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister" (Matt. 20, 26)
  • Guile
  • "Do not forget to resort to the Mother of God in all your sorrows and needs"
  • From the instructions of the Righteous Alexis of Moscow
  • What is the purpose of human life?
  • How can we not cry for our children?
  • Inner paradise is found by patience and humility
  • Choir
  • The Jesus prayer is a flame of fire against the adversaries
  • Catholicism
  • From the instructions of Venerable Ambrose of Optina (With what only requests, complaints, with what only their sorrows and needs did not people come to the elder!..)
  • "Always stay awake and do not indulge in carelessness"
  • Conscience (When we say in our everyday life that our conscience exposes us, that it does not allow us to do this or that...)
  • "And it happens that a good deed is unpleasant to God"
  • The Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John
  • Eternal memory
  • Venerable Sergius of Radonezh
  • Canons, rules
  • Blessed is the man in whom there is the love of God
  • From the Life of Venerable Sabbatius of Solovki
  • Modern idolatry
  • Reproach yourself
  • Judas
  • Under the saving Protecting Veil of the Mother of God
  • Hieromartyr Dionysius the Areopagite
  • About Venerable Paul the Most Simple
  • Without God there is no true happiness and perfect well-being
  • A mysterious property of confession
  • "Lord, help us to be worthy of the name of the Orthodox"
  • "Any embarrassment is from the enemy"
  • The mystery of the Cross of Christ
  • "The best medicine not only for the soul, but also for the body"
  • School of Faith and Virtue
  • On invocation of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ
  • Purity of the spirit
  • If we bear the name of God, where are our deeds in His name?
  • Venerable Silouan of Athos
  • Idol
  • Repentance (The power of repentance is miraculous, but it primarily depends on whether we see our sins...)
  • Ignatius (Brianchaninov), the Saint
  • On the 125th anniversary of the finding of the relics of St. Theodosius of Chernigov
  • How real evil causes good, and seeming good causes evil
  • Glinsk Nativity of Theotokos Hermitage
  • "The Lord also turns even evil to the benefit of man"
  • "From love for a brother comes grace"
  • "With pride, a person cannot be saved" (Therefore, during the entire earthly life, the Lord lets a person know that without God he is nothing...)
  • To parents
  • "A perfect being is unthinkable without free will"
  • From the records of St. Tsarina-Passion-Bearer Alexandra Feodorovna
  • Drawing lots and the West
  • Healings at the relics of St. Mitrophan of Voronezh
  • "The Lord has opened the entrance to the Kingdom of God for us yet here"
  • "Behold, there went out a sower to sow" (Mk. 4, 3)
  • A general law for all those who are being saved
  • Kaluga Icon of the Mother of God
  • "Do a little what you are attracted to"
  • Man and nature
  • While you are in the water of squabbles of the surrounding world, you will inevitably suffer
  • St. Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople
  • On feelings of the lonely women
  • From the word on the day of the celebration of the Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky
  • "Read more of the Gospel and especially of the Holy Fathers"
  • From the word on the Beheading of John the Baptist
  • The inability of the soulfulness to excite the spiritual
  • Venerable Moses the Black
  • What state and feeling the Lord requires of us instead of the soulish ones
  • Abba Pimen the Great
  • How soul passions replace spirituality even when people remember sufferings of Christ, etc.
  • The shortest and easiest way to salvation
  • How the soulish replaces the spiritual
  • "We... should be saints"
  • Soulish and carnal people have no taste for the spiritual
  • By the 75th anniversary of the repose of the Venerable Martyr Seraphim (Shakhmut)
  • Effect of the mind and feeling on person's will
  • "Bear ye one another's burdens" (Gal. 6, 2)
  • Expose your sores before God and ask for forgiveness and healing
  • About following the Lord
  • "God has diminished Himself in order to elevate man to Himself"
  • We need to love people
  • Animalistic perception of human and slavery to sin
  • "God's capital is invested in every person"
  • Human "I" is able to take and include the entire universe and God Himself
  • Intercession of the Mother of God
  • He who sees in others the same fall as in himself will cease to judge at all
  • By the 1075th anniversary of the repose of Venerable John of Rila
  • Even being wounded, continue to struggle
  • Only in the Lord does the soul of man rejoice
  • A brief concept of a spiritual person
  • "For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them" (Lk. 9, 56)
  • Assumption of the Mother of God
  • "We treat ourselves incorrectly"
  • "Every soul is dead if it is not filled with God"
  • There is only one right way
  • About the life path of a Christian
  • True and false spiritual dispensation. Hold on the Lord
  • Love everyone equally
  • What is to do to follow the right path
  • About genuine prayer
  • The law of inner spiritual life
  • "All the best in the world leads to God"
  • Importance of consciousness of yourself as a sinner
  • From the Life of Venerable Psoi of Egypt
  • Vision of sin, and condemnation, moving back, not forward — the choice is in our hands
  • The originators of the Solovki Abode
  • We are being saved not by our good deeds, but by the incomprehensible mercy of God
  • How a "little" sinful habit grows into a real passion
  • "Our time has been given one feat"
  • Transfiguration of the Lord
  • "It is one thing to know, and another to fulfil"
  • By the 100th anniversary of the repose of the Hieromartyr Simon, Bishop of Ufa
  • How a spiritual study should be and a parody of Christianity
  • All-Forgiveness
  • "You must always be with God in your activities, thoughts, and heart"
  • Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven
  • Express your opinions not as your own. The right prayer
  • Praise to the First Martyr Stephen
  • "While you are young, sow a good grain"
  • In memory of the Maccabean Martyrs
  • Teachers themselves do not understand Orthodoxy, do not feel God
  • Every person has his own cross
  • Only real communion with Christ, not scholasticism, gives a living faith
  • A lie gives birth to another one
  • The only purpose spiritual schools should exist for
  • Christian happiness
  • It is your full will to agree with an opinion or not
  • On the 975th anniversary of the bringing of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God, from Tsargrad
  • "The leader now is the Lord Himself"
  • "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved" (Mk. 16, 16)
  • "Try to obey the Lord in the least"
  • Live in peace
  • "Through the fathers we listen to the Lord"
  • You should only be afraid of sin
  • "Thank God if you find a more or less decent companion"
  • Hieromartyr Vladimir Talyush
  • Faithful to the Lord in small things will get strength for more
  • On the 20th anniversary of the glorification of the Righteous Warrior Theodore Ushakov
  • "The Lord forgives everything to the penitent"
  • Equal-to-the-Apostles Mary Magdalene
  • "Be not a hearer of the word of God, but a performer"
  • The Prophecy about the Mother of God
  • "Study the spiritual path"
  • From the word on the day of the Prophet Elijah
  • The contrition of the heart replaces doing of good
  • A teaching in the spirit of the Elder Michael
  • The essence of doing spiritual things
  • For my daughter
  • Do not attribute your spiritual achievements to yourself
  • Conjugality
  • My sinful soul
  • On the commandment to seek first the Kingdom of God
  • God rules the world
  • How the success of the spiritual life is measured
  • "Repentance brings us closer to God"
  • Spiritual and soulish
  • "Do not lay down your weapons and do not turn to flight"
  • "We must value friendship"
  • A simple mind and an evil mind
  • Friendship has an element of love
  • Admonition (One day, a fisherman decided to bring fish to the reverent father Minas from the monastery of St. Anna...)
  • Discussions
  • We repent before God of our sins, and not of the types of sin
  • "How can we hope to be saved by our deeds or exploits?"
  • "We must try to distinguish the main sins from the derivatives, the symptoms from the deeper causes"
  • "Not every good desire enters into the heart from God"
  • Mother's Prayer
  • "We should not be comforted by imaginary virtues"
  • Mediatrix Diligent (I know with what love you listen and sing the troparion to the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God...)
  • "Without humility, it is impossible to give a person the opportunity to overcome sins"
  • Nothing happens by itself
  • Fulfil the will of God, not your own
  • Visits of the Mercy of God
  • "Instruct me, O Lord, to do everything for Thy Glory"
  • The Appearance of the Mother of God to the Venerable Athanasius of Athos
  • "The whole world is not worth a soul"
  • Duties of a wife
  • Remember about the need to give an account to the Lord
  • Perfection
  • The gifts of God
  • Equal-to-the-Apostles Nicholas, Archbishop of Japan
  • "The form corresponds to the content!"
  • Watch your ears
  • "We are all sinners and we all need repentance"
  • Control your tongue
  • Let your sins be an occasion to deepen in prayer
  • The first vicegerent after the opening of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra
  • How do we justify ourselves to God?
  • "The Valaam melodies"
  • "Do not think that it is easy to see your sins"
  • Hieromartyr Vladimir Damaskin
  • Why is a person allowed to fall?
  • About the Christian life
  • "The consciousness of your sins is the first step to victory over them"
  • From the diary of Venerable Nikon of Optina (Preparation for the Sacrament of Penance should consist in self-deepening...)
  • "Only the one who wants to perish himself will perish"
  • From the word on the day of the Nativity of John the Forerunner
  • "With pride, a person cannot be saved" (As the Lord tries to save a person, so the devil tries to ruin him...)
  • About walking before God
  • "If God is against him, then who can help a proud person in any way?"
  • "Freely ye have received, freely give" (Matt. 10, 8)
  • Without humility, all feats are not only not useful, but harmful
  • "Human opinions are false"
  • "Where there is no peace, there is no God"
  • Confess constantly!
  • "No earthly truth can justify enmity"
  • About the veneration of the Mother of God
  • "Especially be afraid of rancour"
  • To the 75th Anniversary of the Meeting of the Pühtitsa Icon
  • Questions
  • The Creator is one!
  • magination, dreaminess
  • How to endure the sorrows that occur
  • The ways God lead us to salvation are not always that we would like
  • About fasting (Poor fasting! How much it endures reproaches, slanders, persecutions!..)
  • "The Lord leads us the easiest way to salvation"
  • Look into the soul of a person
  • How to overcome all the enemy's attacks
  • Children of God
  • Watch and pray
  • Be alert to thoughts
  • "Love and dislike cannot live in one soul"
  • About death (For people of our system, death is a surprise, an absurdity...)
  • "Go through the neighbours to the centre"
  • "The merciful Lord looks at the human soul"
  • Hieromartyr Vladimir Chetverin
  • No states of grace may be achieved without humility
  • The Christian Way is the martyr's way
  • How the grace of God is drawn into the soul
  • Holy Spirit Day
  • "Thank the Lord more often"
  • "Every soul is made alive by the Holy Spirit"
  • On the debt of gratitude to the Lord
  • "Disbelief of believers"
  • "How will we repay God for His love for us?"
  • Beware... of neglecting the small"
  • Under all circumstances surrender to the will of God in everything
  • "Slander can even make it difficult to fulfil the commandments"
  • "To those who sincerely seek the truth, the Lord reveals Himself"
  • A song to Saint Nicholas
  • You need faith to prefer what is pleasing to God
  • The passion of doing nothing
  • Experience what you cannot be saved without
  • "Pray one for another" (Jas. 5, 16)
  • We need active faith proved by deeds in God
  • "The seventh day is... of the Lord thy God" (Ex. 20, 10)
  • Metropolitan Macarius (Bulgakov)
  • "It is necessary that the body does not interfere with the soul"
  • "God Himself turns our hearts to the Most Pure Mother"
  • Sickness is necessary for salvation. Be patient
  • Ascention of the Lord
  • Illness is a manifestation of God's mercy
  • About repentance (My sinner brother, when you want to repent...)
  • About performing Jesus prayer
  • About seduction
  • "Do not attach importance to relationships with people"
  • About the beauty of God's world
  • As we treat our neighbours, so will the Lord treat us in a cruel day...
  • Venerable Simeon the Stylite
  • It is especially necessary to be gentle and kind towards your neighbours
  • Venerable Michael the Confessor, Bishop of Synnada
  • "People should be treated as a doctor treats patients"
  • Avoiding churchly services is a sign of the deadening of the soul
  • "Do not seek the states of grace that no man is worthy of"
  • Intercession of the Mother of God
  • Having received the grace of God, beware of sin
  • About morning and evening prayers
  • "We need to thank the Lord more often"
  • The Jesus Prayer (In order to make the mind and heart constantly remember God, experienced spiritual elders chose one prayer...)
  • "There is also the duty of gratitude to the Lord"
  • "Everything flows. Everything changes. Only the Holy Church remains unchanged"
  • Let each one in his or her own measure thank the Lord for everything
  • Thirst for truth
  • Techniques of demons for deceiving and destroying a person
  • An example of martyrs
  • Struggle with the enemy will not stop until death
  • From the instructions of Venerable Ambrose of Optina (Many of us say that it is impossible to live according to the commandments of the Lord...)
  • He, who calls for the help of the Lord Jesus Christ, is safe
  • About the benefit of sorrows
  • "Do not be afraid of demons. Suppress demonic properties"
  • What are periods of soulful scarcity needed for?
  • Poetism of the sermons of Archbishop John
  • Vladyka John's poetic experiences
  • A toll
  • Preacher and poet. The life of Archbishop John (Shakhovskoy)
  • Chosen of God
  • "Liberation of your present, past and future from all undivine"
  • Healing of the paralytic
  • "The law of religious axiology"
  • On St. Nicholas day
  • "People need each other, but they get bored"
  • Gospel (The apostle says: if the things which Jesus did should be written every one, I suppose...)
  • "We belong not to time, but to eternity"
  • Desire
  • "True faith is not blind"
  • About non-judgement
  • "This is the law of life in a person"
  • Holy icons in the work of our salvation
  • "Every person stands before God"
  • Everyone, choose for yourself the reading of the fathers that suits your lifestyle
  • Our thoughts, feelings and desires already now belong to the spiritual world
  • Imitate the holy myrrh-bearers
  • And a man in Christ becomes a son of God, an immortal creature restored in God
  • Hieromartyr Vladimir Fokin
  • The Intercession of the Mother of God
  • "Remember them which have the rule over you" (Heb. 13, 7)
  • On the resurrection of the dead
  • A religious life, a non-religious life and a pseudo-religious life
  • About the fear of God and wisdom
  • Salvation anchor
  • "People are no longer able to think about great and eternal truths"
  • "Don't be afraid: the Lord is even closer!"
  • About temporary and eternal
  • Simplicity (You need to live simply, not striving for luxury...)
  • About Communion
  • On the veneration of the Mother of God
  • "Fasting deepens the feeling of responsibility"
  • Who will not rejoice in the victory of the Lord Jesus Christ?
  • "Holiness and knowledge are given by conciliarity"
  • Fasting (Fasting, in its idea and in its true spirit, shakes off from a person everything that is incorrect...)
  • Resurrection of Christ
  • "The power of the taken cross reveals and saves true life"
  • Caring for others
  • Cross of Christ
  • The beginning of services in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra
  • Happiness (Self-knowledge is the beginning of knowledge...)
  • About Great Saturday
  • Materialism and faith in God
  • Venerable Zosima of Solovki
  • Culture
  • On the Divine Service of Holy Week
  • The power of the Holy Spirit
  • Transfer of the Assumption Cathedral to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra
  • Conscience (God created man. Something divine is put into the depths of the human heart...)
  • Opening of the Lavra of St. Sergius
  • Disbelief
  • Conversation on Great Week
  • Memory of death (The holy teachers and ascetics of Christianity consider the memory of death for a person as necessary for spiritual life as prayer...)
  • Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem
  • The mystery of death
  • Lazarus is the image of Adam
  • Suicide
  • About reading the Holy Fathers
  • Satiation
  • About prayer (When praying, adhere to the rule that it is better...)
  • Human intentions
  • About abstinence
  • Opposing of good to human evil and its consequences
  • What is fasting? (This is the time when Christians are forbidden to eat everything in a row...)
  • About righteous fervours
  • Venerable Sebastian Fomin, confessor
  • Pity
  • Venerable Mary of Egypt
  • Way of the cross
  • Praise of the Most Holy Theotokos
  • The mystery of immortality
  • True and direct fasting is an abstaining from all evil
  • The task and meaning of earthly existence
  • "In order to put on the new man, one must put off the old one before"
  • Prayer (What is prayer? This is a conversation with God...)
  • About silence (Saint Isaac the Syrian says...)
  • The essence of faith
  • From the Life of Venerable Hypatius, Abbot of Ruthian
  • Way to God
  • By the 250th anniversary of the repose of St. Sophronius of Irkutsk
  • Hold fast to the Church and the teachings of the Holy Fathers
  • About God-imitative dispassion
  • Do not engage in godless conversations, reading, watching atheistic rubbish
  • Burning candle
  • Unbelief is a passion. How to fight against it
  • Do not believe that it is easy to be saved!
  • Materialism lives on by the religious ignorance
  • Strive for your salvation
  • The helplessness of atheism in the face of a religious fact
  • From the memoirs about His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon
  • https://soul-searchings.livejournal.com/197793.html
  • "Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me"
  • What is necessary for "contact" with God?
  • About worshiping the Cross
  • Regarding negative criticism
  • Martyress Drosis
  • What is spiritual life in Orthodoxy?
  • What is the best way to honour the deceased?
  • The essence of Orthodoxy
  • Venerable Martyrs from the monastery of Saint Sabbas
  • A word about Christ
  • By condemning others and denigrating their honour, we dishonour ourselves
  • About miracles (here was a time when Christians sowed abundantly...)
  • Test of conscience
  • What should be according to the law?
  • Reward
  • "What order would be in the thing where is a deviation from the ancient order?"
  • "A Christian without fasting is a prisoner of passions and sin"
  • On some charter issues
  • Grace is Divine energy
  • Let us test our work before it goes to the people
  • Alms helps the departed
  • "Arouse the ecclesiastical spirit"
  • Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople
  • "Prevent the building from being undermined"
  • About the prayer of Saint Ephraim the Syrian
  • Be good shepherds
  • Prayer of Ephraim the Syrian
  • On the community life worthy of approval
  • Little faith in Christ remains in modern society
  • About silence and rumour
  • Golden crown of martyrdom
  • Put aside the thought of being jealous of a monk or nun
  • On Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
  • Monastic sacrifice
  • "Remember, you partakers, about the price of the gift of grace you received"
  • https://soul-searchings.livejournal.com/193138.html
  • Fasting is an exercise established by the Church
  • https://soul-searchings.livejournal.com/192989.html
  • Imitate the saints
  • Spiritual service
  • Fathers of desert and the women blameless...
  • "A contumely to the holidays worse than studies"
  • "Fasting changes and behaviour and mood of a Christian"
  • "Give more space for attention, meditation, tenderness and contemplation"
  • During the days of holy fast
  • Repository of the Shrine
  • Rite of forgiveness
  • https://soul-searchings.livejournal.com/191550.html
  • Fasting (Fasting is useless for those who want to earn human praise through it...)
  • "By the power of strong faith, love and self-sacrifice"
  • The carnal man and the spiritual one
  • About one thing needed
  • Ecumenism of the Alexander I era
  • To discover and expose is easier than to correct
  • Bloodless martyrdom
  • What can wake us up?
  • Hieromartyr Vladimir Alekseev
  • "Are few of us unhealthy?"
  • Why has the Church established the veneration of holy relics?
  • "Everyone is talking about malversations and no one can defeat them"
  • Venerable Athanasius of Pavlopetria
  • The spirit of this age
  • Bishop Jeremiah (Herodion Mikhailovich Soloviev)
  • A considerable precaution
  • "Each house is similar to its creators"
  • "The ignorance of insane people should be curbed"
  • Venerable Dositheus of Palestine
  • "Love to listen to the truth"
  • The challenge of relocation fosters patience
  • On difficulties in the affairs of service
  • Feat (Asceticism means bearing spiritual achievement...)
  • The origin of evil
  • "Take care of the spirit of the whole society"
  • Don't give up the fight
  • Mercy and justice
  • "This my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found" (Lk. 15, 24)
  • "Do not use mercy alone, where justice is also needed"
  • About anger
  • The true duty of a boss
  • Pilgrimage (Putting care aside and commotion....)
  • "In a Christian, give reverence to Christ"
  • Reverend Simeon the Myrrh-streaming
  • The power of love
  • Greatness of the saints
  • A word about love
  • "The silence of the spirit calms the nerves"
  • Impressions, thoughts and feelings
  • Vigilant caution is necessary
  • Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees (Matt. 16, 6)
  • "You should not allow yourself to indignities"
  • "God be merciful to me a sinner"
  • Where we are placed, there we will work
  • Venerable Luke of Hellas
  • Don't be negligent
  • What does it mean to feel sinful?
  • "Quietly bring people to order"
  • Hieromartyr Vladmir of Gezgaly (Khrishchenovich)
  • Simplicity not without wisdom
  • On the multiplication and impoverishment of grace in a man
  • "It is regrettable to see division where there should be unity"
  • "Serving God means forcing ourselves to work"
  • A matter of free reasoning
  • Ordination
  • "Leave yourself and serve the Lord"
  • "The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost" (Lk. 19 ,10)
  • "Blessed is he who consumes grace as an instrument"
  • Give place to the physician, for the Lord hath created him (Sir. 38, 12)
  • Don't make your calmness dependent on human opinion
  • About a reasonable wife
  • You can't wash away dirt with dirt
  • From the funeral oration to Basil, Archbishop of Caesarea of Cappadocia
  • Let us not lead ourselves into temptation and at the same time others
  • About envy (God is good and gives good things to the worthy...)
  • "It is necessary to carefully look around"
  • Good shepherd (The secret of the unique and incomparable eloquence of Chrysostom...)
  • Boast less, pray more
  • Fulfil obedience as a work for the Lord
  • "A firm but calm truth admonishes a self-deluding passion"
  • "Every drop of sweat, every breath will be rewarded"
  • "Do not turn the light wind of frivolous human words into a storm"
  • About prayer and spiritual life
  • A twig in the eyes of a neighbour
  • How dare I ask for the remission of my former sins, without forsaking my former way of life?
  • "God shows us His work and gives us the power to do it"
  • On obedience to spiritual tutors
  • "There is no need to complain about what God has given in nature"
  • On the worship of holy icons
  • Oil of repentance
  • Patristic books
  • "Sadness may be fair, but it should never be overwhelming"
  • Sign of Christianity (Whoever comes to God and really wants to be a follower of Christ must come with this goal in order to change...)
  • Sadness should not be stronger than hope
  • Thoughts on parenting
  • "The Church asks the Angels who concelebrate with us"
  • From the instructions of Venerable Anthony the Great
  • The Lord favours the freewill offerings of your mouth
  • Feast in honour of the chains of the holy glorious apostle Peter
  • "The Lord requires a heart"
  • About obedience (It is talked about John the Dwarf...)
  • "Good is strength, and unkind is infirmity"
  • Enlightener of Georgia
  • "In peace let us pray to the Lord"
  • Venerable Eleazar of Anzer
  • Receive from God every good gift and carry it in devotion to His will
  • Icon of the Mother of God called "Milk-Feeder"
  • "There is no need to be discouraged"
  • On striving for God
  • It is only on truth and right that you can base the peace — your own one and of others
  • Awakening of a sinner from a sinful dream
  • "You should not be afraid to do good to your neighbour"
  • Proverbs about family
  • Let us be grateful for the gift
  • Do not judge
  • In order to open the way to our hearts and instill us with saving dispositions
  • Prophetic ministry of John the Forerunner
  • Learn to sacrifice to God everything that somehow interests us among people
  • "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God"
  • Open door
  • About humility (Humility consists in the fact that a person recognizes himself as a sinner...)
  • Let the soul calm down in humility
  • Churchly unity
  • The deeper humility is, the closer Heaven
  • "No matter how the storm may rustle..."
  • Image of great humility
  • Author's remark on the biography of Father Tikhon, the last great Russian elder on Athos
  • Let us strive for humility
  • Prayer written by Elder Tikhon
  • Let us not justify ourselves in anything
  • Appearances of Elder Tikhon to Father Paisius and Father Andrew
  • Christian wisdom
  • On struggle of will and sin
  • The posthumous appearance of the elder to Fr. Agathangel. The memory of him
  • Spiritual literature
  • Death and burial of Elder Tikhon
  • Icons in the house
  • Father Paisius about the last hours of the elder's earthly life
  • Holy days
  • Anticipation of the future bliss by the elder
  • Confession of faith
  • Visit of a Russian metropolitan. Approaching of the Elder's death
  • "When... opened their treasures, they presented unto Him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh"
  • Elder Tikhon and a Greek priest Elijah
  • A word on how to celebrate the day of the Nativity of Christ
  • Elder Tikhon's love for prayer and reading the Gospel and his dislike for enmity
  • Meaning of the heart in spiritual life
  • Diseases of the elder. His treatments
  • Valuable recommendations
  • What is needed to unhide the spiritual treasure of Gospel?
  • How the elder saved his young disciple from being sent to a nunnery
  • Let it come, the future!
  • Prayer of Fr. Tikhon before giving advice. Photographing. His love for the spiritual children
  • God is everywhere
  • Elder Tikhon knew how to kindle jealousy in others
  • On the importance of reading the lives of saints
  • Fearlessness of Elder Tikhon. Relationships with fat people
  • Before our eyes there is example of the saints
  • "An earthly angel and a heavenly man"
  • "Or are we not Christians?!"
  • Fr. Tikhon's prayerful abiding in God. A lesson of humility
  • "We do not have such a commandment to demand love and justice from others"
  • Elder Tikhon's hospitality
  • Does the abundance of information interfere with spiritual perception?
  • Elder Tikhon and a thief
  • About rancour
  • Abstinence and vigil of Father Tikhon
  • Do works of piety as often as possible
  • Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The elder's guests
  • What to do during illness
  • The elder and life around him
  • Patience (Human life rests on self-control and self-education...)
  • Prayer and poverty of the elder
  • How do we believe?
  • Celebration of the Divine Liturgy by Elder Tikhon
  • About parenting
  • Elder Tikhon's life in Kapsala, construction of the church
  • Grace of God
  • The beginning of Fr. Tikhon's monastic deed, life on Karoulia
  • Venerable Anthony of Siya
  • Pilgrimage of the future elder to holy places
  • From the biography of St. Sergius Pravodlyubov
  • "True aristocracy is in admiration for the highest"
  • Elder Tikhon's parents. The mercy of the Virgin to him
  • "Saint Barbara did not like my complaints!"
  • On the life and works of Archimandrite John (Krestiankin)
  • Repose of Saint George Sedov, Confessor
  • A word about a little good-doing
  • Confessor George Sedov
  • Word in week 5 after Easter, about the Samaritan woman
  • A proud man is an unhappy man
  • "The soul will receive the opportunity to fully develop its abilities and improve"
  • Let us make a good beginning!
  • The experience of death
  • Three windows
  • About the measure
  • "He led the life of a hermit in the laic world"
  • Three periods of life of a soul
  • Ancestral life, worthy of emulation
  • "Be consistent with Gospel truths"
  • About the Church (To feel the Church means to experience the bliss that is revealed to us in the promise...)
  • Start with what is the hardest to talk about
  • For this only Christ was born
  • Holiness
  • There is spirit's paradise and the promised land
  • About traveling to holy places
  • About the joy of Divine eternity
  • Religion and tradition
  • Abundant rain of God's grace is poured out on us through common prayers
  • About self-reproach
  • Approach with faith to the Lord, and He will revive your soul
  • Word on the Presentation of the Theotokos into the Temple
  • The seed of truth and goodness grows in patience
  • About victimhood
  • It is unwise to be attached to the earthly
  • Passing through sorrows, let us drop to the Lord and His merciful Mother
  • Believe in Russia
  • "What comes from God is always for our good"
  • How can we acquire humility?
  • "Without God we cannot survive either material or spiritual hardships"
  • About silence (There were three hardworking, amiable monks...)
  • "Do not grieve more than measure"
  • "There would be no sorrows, there would be no salvation"
  • "Turn to the Lord with all your being"
  • Meekness of St. John the Merciful
  • Fruit of sorrowful trials
  • "Pray to the Lord that eternal darkness does not cover you"
  • "The struggle between good and evil at the foot of the Cross continues"
  • About observance of the commandments of God
  • St. John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria
  • Great power of the mysterious confession of Christ
  • Hieromartyr Vladimir Preobrazhensky
  • Only the feat of the cross turns a person's way to salvation
  • The wicked is punished in his iniquity
  • Without labour, without struggle and without suffering on the Cross, there is no life
  • Cohesion with neighbour and God
  • "Let us humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God"
  • "Let us suffer for the Kingdom of Heaven"
  • "As a great mercy, it is given to believe and suffer!"
  • A lamp
  • Our testimony that we bear the seal of God on ourselves
  • Death of Hieromartyr Constantine of Bogorodsk
  • It must be courageously carried to the end
  • Death of St. Nektarios of Aegina, Metropolitan of Pentapolis
  • Our bearing of the cross
  • St. Jonah, Archbishop of Novgorod
  • The cause of all troubles and the only thing you may be saved by in our time
  • "Letterers," or pharisaism
  • The cross of life without Christ is fruitless
  • A kopeck
  • "Apostasy from God and faith is spreading on earth"
  • "How to combine (ascetic) attention to yourself and self-rejection?"
  • "Only sin ruins life"
  • The passion of envy eats away at the soul
  • Hieromartyr Vladimir Chekalov
  • "A human becomes more sophisticated than a demon in evil"
  • About near-death illness
  • "We cannot escape the cross"
  • Saint Stephen Milutin, King of Serbia
  • Providential strikes from God
  • The fewer gross sins, the deeper the confession becomes
  • Holy Presentation Tolga Convent
  • "Having not loved Russia, it is impossible to love our brothers"
  • Requirements of prayer, making it difficult in our time
  • Nikolo-Babaevsky monastery
  • "It is necessary not to speak about peace, but pray"
  • (Kushelev's) Church of St. Gregory the Theologian
  • "Revenge" of St. John, Patriarch of Alexandria
  • Raising of Tabitha
  • Saviour and Intercession Chapels
  • About love for enemies
  • "Remember the hour of death"
  • False calm
  • "I am the bread of life"
  • "Sonny, don't worry..."
  • Church in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh
  • "May your sins be forgiven, servant of God..."
  • Great Martyress Zlata of Maglen
  • Temples of the Holy Trinity Sergius Hermitage
  • "Touch not Mine anointed"
  • "I did not show my will, and everything got to me..."
  • Pride
  • "Begin every smallest deed with prayer"
  • "We must through much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God"
  • Hieromartyr Vladimir Tsedrinsky
  • "Take this old man, he needs to be saved"
  • "Gentleness will bring you great benefit"
  • A torn scarf
  • Sin against the Church
  • Martyr Vladimir Ushkov
  • Demise of St. Jonah, Bishop of Hankou
  • "Be careful! Do not accept any vision!"
  • Instructions of Venerable Sabbas of Krypetsy
  • There is no success without struggle
  • "It is so pleasing to God"
  • Venerable Jeremiah the Seer
  • "Ask, and it shall be given you"
  • Holy Trinity Sergius Hermitage
  • Uncovering of the relics of Saints Gurius and Barsanuphius
  • Venerable John the Faster, Patriarch of Constantinople
  • "Everything in Christianity is determined and tested by love"
  • Handwork is a blessing of God
  • Martyrs Urbanus, Theodore, Medimnus (+370)
  • How to behave in case of trouble with others
  • A characteristic of the Russian bishops who drew spiritual strength from the ascetic tradition
  • A letter of St. Chionia of Arkhangelsk from imprisonment
  • Martyr Severian of Sebaste
  • "God is wonderful in His saints"
  • Father Nikita
  • "Saint Ignatius gives especially valuable advices to the modern believer"
  • Industriousness
  • "The greatest gift of reasoning"
  • Protecting Veil of the Theotokos
  • "Unfading, living source of the inner life"
  • About condemnation (No man can know the fates of God...)
  • Miraculous signs of Venerable Athanasius Vysotsky, the Serpukhov wonderworker, after his death
  • Saint Joseph of Alaverdi
  • "A very strict adherent of the ascetic tradition"
  • Selfishness is the greatest sin in the world
  • "There is no better teacher for our time"
  • Hieromartyr Vladimir Smirnov
  • "These shrewd eyes look at you, look into the very depths of your soul"
  • Greedy
  • The works of St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) require deep study
  • "There is happiness on earth even now"
  • About prayer before meal
  • Providence of God in the history of nations
  • "Where there is humility, there dwells Christ"
  • The sinful rich man and the hermit
  • The Cross is a sacred sign
  • Martyrs Michael, Prince of Chernigov, and his boyar Theodore
  • Monomakh's letter to Oleg Svyatoslavich
  • Hieromartyr Vladimir Vyatsky
  • Monomakh's story about his life
  • "We worship Thy Cross, Christ..."
  • The Testament of Vladimir Monomakh
  • "Dissolve your words with the salt of wisdom"
  • From the instructions of Righteous Alexis Mechev
  • A word on Exaltation
  • A word on the day of the Nativity of the Theotokos
  • "The Voice of Truth"
  • An example of true selfless devotion
  • A white mushroom
  • "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God"
  • Maximilian (Lazarenko) and John (Snychev) about St. Ignatius
  • Palm tree and a barb
  • "The works of Saint Ignatius are very multifaceted"
  • Hegumen Boris (Dolzhenko) on the uncovering of the relics of St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)
  • "In order to live in the Orthodox way, work is necessary"
  • Apparition of Bishop Ignatius to S. I. Snesareva
  • "The ocean of invisible life"
  • Apparition of Bishop Ignatius to A. V. Gendre, on the 20th day after his death, 1867 May 19
  • Arrest and death of the Hieromartyr Hermogenes (Dolganev)
  • Death of Saint Ignatius
  • "Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child"
  • Last years
  • Prediction of St. Alexius about the city of Samara
  • Removal to retire in the Nikolo-Babaevsky monastery
  • "Despair is more woeful than sinning"
  • Activities of the saint in the Caucasus
  • About confession and repentance
  • Bishop ordination
  • Mother of God on Her deathbed
  • Request of removal for rest: release and return to Sergius Hermitage
  • "God does not give His gifts under compulsion"
  • About irritability and impatience
  • Ministry in the St. Petersburg diocese: works and temptations
  • Deviation from Orthodoxy in icon painting of 17th century
  • The outer structure of the monastery
  • "It is not surprising to fall, but it is shameful and painful to be in sin"
  • Worldly joy and divine joy
  • Does humility mean weakness?
  • The spiritual arrangement of the brethren
  • "The confession and not anything else"
  • Beginning of the abbotship in the Sergius Hermitage
  • "Glory to Thee, God!"
  • Transfer to Sergius Hermitage
  • "If God is for you, who is against you?"
  • Service in the Vologda diocese
  • Transfiguration and Cross
  • Monastic tonsure
  • "Glorious Transfiguration of the Lord"
  • Wandering around the monasteries
  • "Prayer is needed not for God, but for you"
  • Resignation. The beginning of novitiate
  • "If there were no trials, there would be no crowns!"
  • Military service
  • Faith and external proofs
  • Study in St. Petersburg
  • "He expected death as a holiday"
  • Childhood in the parental home
  • Venerable Sophia of Suzdal
  • The Brianchaninov family. The birth of the future holy hierarch
  • The temptation of man from eight sides. Temptation from within
  • The controversy of St. Ignatius with A. I. Herzen
  • Venerable Angelina, despotess of Serbia
  • Ven. Barsanuphius about the works of St. Ignatius
  • Psychic life and bestiality
  • Advantage of Fr. Ignatius in scholarship, accuracy and treatment
  • Humility of Venerable Paul of Xeropotamou
  • "Look for spirit everywhere, not for letters"
  • "Call upon Me in the day of trouble"
  • "Cast out sin, there will be no details of the fall"
  • Where is happiness?
  • "People happen to be unreasonably demanding, God never"
  • Let us be worthy to be friends with the Lord
  • Regarding the truth and touching life incorruptible
  • The king calls his subject to him by decree
  • A bee and a fly
  • In the charity wing
  • Perfections are from God
  • Visiting the sacristy
  • The carnal people and the spiritual ones
  • He spoke little — he was silent more
  • Prayer (...brings a person closer to God, it is a conversation with Him...)
  • "Monks must, by their communion, holy and blameless, restore monasticism"
  • Holy Prince Roman Olegovich of Ryazan
  • Bishopric of St. Ignatius and end of his earthly feat in Nikolo-Babayevsky monastery
  • Love your daughter-in-law like a native daughter
  • St. Ignatius and his laic relatives
  • "The acquisition of godlikeness is impossible without freedom"
  • St. Ignatius in the head of Sergius Hermitage
  • "Oh, how we need ailments!"
  • Youth of St. Ignatius, his learning, military service and leaving the world
  • "Do not embarrass each other"
  • Childhood of St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)
  • Subordination to the flesh is quickly changed to enslavement to the spirit of evil
  • Memories of Nikolai Akimovich Barkov
  • "Forgive us, Lord!"
  • Venerable Arsenius of Novgorod
  • Religious disputes and the Sovereign
  • "With humility accept the humiliation of the soul and bodily grief"
  • "What delusion can there be in repentance?"
  • Venerable Eumenius of Gortyna
  • From the narration of Tatyana Borisovna Potemkina
  • "The Lord looks at me, what should I be afraid of?"
  • Basil (Pavlov) about the daily routine of St. Ignatius in the last days of his life
  • Advice to an infidel's wife
  • Memoirs of Basil (Pavlov), the last cell-attendant of St. Ingatius
  • "The living dead walk among us"
  • Memories of Venerable Pimen of Ugresha
  • "The Kingdom of God is within you" (How wrong are those people who seek happiness outside themselves...)
  • Simplicity of dress and treatment of the archimandrite, rebuilding of the St. Sergius church
  • "We are unprofitable servants..."
  • The non-possessiveness and soreness of Archimandrite Ignatius
  • "As we forgive our debtors"
  • Very rare people understood the high spiritual qualities of Archimandrite Ignatius
  • Saint Basil, Bishop of Ryazan
  • Monastic expressionism
  • Examination for taking the priesthood
  • Archimandrite never refused to accept the brethren
  • The temptation of man from eight sides. Temptation from the outside
  • Secular people and true asceticism
  • "He is a chosen vessel unto Me, to bear My name"
  • Fr. Ignatius and passions of young men
  • The Lord is calling us to Himself
  • "How you bless, father, do it"
  • "We only bear the name 'Orthodox'"
  • Instructive cases of St. Ignatius' wise guidance
  • "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow"
  • Upbringing system of St. Ignatius
  • "Why don't you come to Neil?"
  • How Fr. Ignatius tamed a proud vicegerent
  • Christian love and sensual love
  • From the memoirs of archimandrite Ignatius (Malyshev)
  • Unwavering faith
  • From notes by His Eminence Leonid, Archbishop of Yaroslavl
  • Righteous Artemius of Verkola
  • "When Fr. Ignatius speaks of the Church, his appearance is sad"
  • "Do not blame others, and you will learn yourself"
  • The feat of our time and search for a helper in it
  • Over politics
  • Do not substitute God with a human mentor
  • "The Lord hath chastened me sore: but He hath not given me over unto death"
  • About spiritual guidance
  • "Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth"
  • Serving the Lord and its consolation
  • "Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things"
  • About consolation
  • The temptation of man from eight sides. Temptation from below
  • About distraction
  • "Everything must be put on the altar of peace"
  • Try to resist passions whenever possible
  • Blessed Jerome of Stridon
  • Chains of passions and the way to get free of them
  • "The not working is not worthy"
  • About passions (Passions challenge me one against another...)
  • Ven. Andronicus of Moscow the founder of the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery
  • The worst sin
  • It is necessary to be treated, and to resort to the saints
  • Sinful skill and its overcoming
  • Venerable Barnabas of Vetluga
  • The sin of fornication and the general consequences of sin
  • Why're you slumbering, soul?
  • Difference and measure of sins
  • "With thorns on my head, with a cross on my shoulders..."
  • About selflessness
  • About sins
  • "The choice is being made only now"
  • About thankfulness (Gratitude is a rare virtue among people...)
  • St. Ephraim of Antioch
  • Difference of feats, need of humility in their performing
  • St. Jonah, Bishop of Great Perm
  • About feats (Initially, we need enhanced bodily feat: we need genuflection that tires the body, humbles the soul...)
  • Hilarion the New, Abbot of Dalmatia
  • About libel
  • In order to learn Christian charity, several rules may be suggested
  • About petrified insensibility
  • Two ways
  • Distract yourself with violence from the condemnation of your neighbours
  • "And since then I have become a human"
  • About condemnation (For our sin, we seek leniency and grace...)
  • "Holy people are our best friends"
  • All temptations are only scarecrows, lifeless effigies
  • "The Church tunes the soul"
  • Deliverance from temptations certainly follows
  • The Church is continuous Pentecost
  • About temptations (Temptations are necessary for us...)
  • The Divine Wisdom in Proverbs
  • Earthly life is the threshold of eternity
  • Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit
  • A warning call
  • The inexhaustible mystery of the Lord
  • A bitter healing against our sinfulness
  • About a sense of style
  • About the memory of death ([It] accompanies a humbly wise on the path of earthly life...)
  • Word on the day of Pentecost
  • A follow to our Lord Jesus Christ
  • The Kingdom of Glory
  • A sign of Christ, guiding the disciple of Christ to the Kingdom of Heaven
  • About the memory of death (Our spirit is restored by the grace of God...)
  • Without the will of God no sorrow may come near us
  • Confession (...is a requirement of the Church to help a person open spiritual wounds...)
  • Temporary tribulation is a great gift of God
  • "Is the Kingdom of Heaven not necessary?"
  • The Lord also sends temptations
  • Paradise and hell
  • Serving the Lord and its consolation
  • Repentance (Repentance is great! It is an indispensable acquisition for people...)
  • The fruit of the temporary tribulations
  • "One Who founded our fathers as the luminaries on earth"
  • A sure sign of the chosen by God, beloved of God
  • "You're happy that you are in true faith"
  • About sorrows
  • Venerable Ephraim Perekomsky, the wonderworker of Novgorod
  • It is not enough to be kind according to the essence
  • And, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days
  • God shows to a rational consciousness His vocation
  • "During the holidays the enemy tries to tempt especially strongly"
  • Let us protect our virtues from the evil that lives in us
  • Bribes
  • Those who trust in the good deeds of the fallen essence have not known Christ
  • About conscience
  • About good deeds
  • Equal to the Apostles Rostislav, Prince of Great Moravia
  • Our hope is in God's mercy, and not in our righteousness
  • Providence of God in the fate of the sick
  • "All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags"
  • About alms
  • Endure with courage the invisible struggle
  • "Do not consider anything unimportant when it comes to your eternal salvation"
  • About the truth of God and of men
  • The beginning of the Zhirovichi Monastery
  • The testimony of God and self-satisfaction of the blind world
  • "You forgot that you need to humble yourself"
  • The cause of the fall
  • "The Lord gives the gift not for labour, but for humility"
  • About the multiplication of enticements
  • "Calm down and cry out to God"
  • About the state of inconsistency and darkness
  • Conversation with X about fasting
  • About society
  • The temptation of man from eight sides. Temptation from above
  • The Lord commanded the denial of fallen essence
  • About obedience (Once, when I was still a novice, Father Arsenius and I planted onions...)
  • The difference between spiritual and soul virtues
  • Double of the Church
  • Humility is rooted by this position in man
  • "As you do to people — so do people to you"
  • "Premature dispassion is dangerous!"
  • "Someone else's pain is becoming my own"
  • Frustration of the image and likeness
  • "Try to remind yourself of your sinfulness"
  • A testimony living in man himself
  • "Remember in the temple as if missing, but existing"
  • The very essence of our soul
  • Real peace comes when a person thinks of others
  • About image and likeness of God
  • Everyday care overshadows the mind from the truth
  • About a human
  • God tests souls like gold in a crucible
  • About forgiving of our neighbours
  • "God heard the prayer of His saint"
  • Who will not receive the spiritual mind?
  • Christian is a disciple to the very grave
  • The greatest difference
  • "Each humble yourself before God and before your brother"
  • "Who does not believe in the Son of God?"
  • Do not believe everything you hear
  • "What is the use of confessing words with rejection by deeds?"
  • Struggle for life
  • About spiritual blindness and the path of return to vision
  • About Divine service
  • "The false dream is cruelly deceiving its followers"
  • About the fear of God and insolence
  • About the sinful life
  • "Do not sleep, man"
  • Spiritual and carnal love
  • It is unpleasant for the reposed in the Lord to see our tears
  • The closest means to spiritual success
  • "Let us rejoice in the resurrected God"
  • "Love must be nourished by the infinite God"
  • How to get rid of the hustle and bustle at inevitable worries
  • True love and its distortion
  • Accept sorrows courageously and wisely
  • "The Lord bequeathed a love for enemies"
  • God sees you everywhere, sees all yours
  • The perfection of love lies in union with God
  • The patristic writings are known by life
  • A path leading to love for God
  • Selfishness often hides under a guise of rightness
  • Do not allow yourself to be blinded by vain preferences and cares
  • "Awake, O soul sleeping in carelessness"
  • About love for neighbours
  • "A celebration of the victory of life over death"
  • Who wants to be a true Christian?
  • About churchly chants
  • Carefully watch over yourself
  • "Forgiveness of everyone and no condemnation are salvation without labour"
  • It is due to confess the Lord's commandments
  • The temptation of man from eight sides. Temptations from left and right
  • This must be done over the Christian during earthly life
  • The Church lives by the laws of purity and truth
  • The greatest, only good for man is the knowledge of God
  • Despondency, oblivion and ignorance
  • Patience is given by faith
  • "We must strive with all our souls to serve another"
  • Submit your mind to Christ and wash yourself in repentance
  • "Behold, thy King cometh unto thee"
  • Cling to God by faith, cling to Him with incessant repentance
  • On the Sunday of fronds
  • Love for God comes from keeping the Gospel commandments
  • About idle talks (The Elder did not allow us to bring news to the community from outside...)
  • A laic person should not enter into a subtle examination of spiritual qualities
  • The childhood of Metropolitan Nicholas of Alma-Ata
  • Piety is necessary
  • "In faith, some things simply have no explanation"
  • Forbid yourself to daydreaming
  • "The Word was made flesh!"
  • We have an indispensable duty
  • "Love is higher than prayer"
  • What has every Christian taken upon himself?
  • Put yourself in the place of another person
  • What does to get rich in God mean?
  • A hindrance to virtue
  • Confess Christ as the sovereign Lord
  • Revival of the icon
  • About the right Christian life
  • A wayfarer and the Leader
  • Inclusion in the number of the elect is left to our own will
  • To an educated woman who is ridiculed for going to church
  • About the will of God and of men
  • How can you console the crying? — Cry with them
  • About enticement
  • Confession of the inner man, leading to humility
  • Empty conversations are a mediastinum of hypocrisy and condemnation
  • A thought of death
  • Trying to heal the passion at its root, do not fake that you have already won it
  • "Without sorrows we cannot live"
  • About hypocrisy
  • Cross of the Lord
  • Invisibility of the seal of pride
  • From "A Short Rule for a Pious Life"
  • The proud are deprived of power over themselves
  • "You fast according to My grace"
  • About pride (Self-conceit and pride in essence consist in rejecting God and in worshiping oneself...)
  • "Be patient!"
  • A guide for the entire Christian society
  • "If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me"
  • A law for the mind
  • Foreboding of eternal life
  • A powerful tool
  • On the Sunday of the Cross-worship
  • The foundation of all virtues
  • The Holy Spirit and Divine Scripture
  • About fasting (If... fasting is not adorned with the fruit of repentance, then fasting feat will remain in vain...)
  • How Forty Martyrs of Sebaste saved Joseph (Chernov) the Metropolitan of Astrakhan (+ 1975)
  • Types of humility, true and false
  • Ammorian Martyrs
  • Recognize yourself worthy of the position in which we are
  • Calvary-Crucifix Skete and demise of Ven. Job of Anzer
  • Do not compose yourself excitements
  • A letter to Santa Claus
  • Humility and its worldly blind judges
  • "Judge not, that ye be not judged"
  • What does true humility consist in?
  • On the verge of an afterlife
  • The virtue known from the inner heartfelt peace it gives birth to
  • Dirty Turkish delight
  • About humility (Due to their deep humility, the greatest saints of God did not seem to see the blessed gifts...)
  • "Now we are not hopeless"
  • Meaning of mercy at the Judgement of Christ
  • The temptation of man from eight sides. Temptation from front
  • Natural mercy cannot be a God-pleasing virtue
  • St. Porphyrius of Gaza, the guardian of the Holy Cross of the Lord
  • Expecting help from God, reject human mercy
  • "A natural consequence of the soul living in Christ"
  • On the Divine and human mercy
  • His Eminence Sylvester's word to those who use foul language
  • The pledge of eternal bliss
  • The Providence of God (Elder Zinovy, then archimandrite, in the 1950s once was a participant in a meeting of a representative of the Church of Alexandria...)
  • The only infallible path to salvation
  • The feat of prayer
  • We do not know what our salvation consists of
  • Venerable Timothy in Symbols
  • A great happiness for a sinful person
  • From the life of Venerable Cornelius Pskovo-Pechersky
  • What should he do who wish to be saved?
  • "I am the way, the truth, and the life"
  • What acquisition made by us on earth can remain forever?
  • Congratulations on the beginning of the fast!
  • About salvation
  • Eve and Mary
  • Recognition of the atonement and the Redeemer
  • Away from God
  • This is already a gift of God
  • "A spiritual garden, fragrant with flowers of charity"
  • The gift of God should not be used for evil
  • Purpose of our life
  • Leave your sinful life through sincere repentance
  • Disobedient to the will of God
  • How to use the power of repentance
  • The Lord and Mother of God are always ready to help us
  • With self-conceit, repentance is impossible
  • An onionlet
  • The only way to the Kingdom of Heaven
  • Foundation of Vazheozersky Saviour-Transfiguration Monastery
  • God's saving gift
  • Memory of death (The elder tried to instill in us the memory of death very deeply in stories about various historical events...)
  • Repentance is omnipotent
  • "Accept the firm intention to do everything for the Lord God"
  • About repentance (Brethren! To believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, repentance is needed..)
  • Appreciation
  • Living faith and invisible struggle
  • Family responsibilities
  • Faith sets man before God
  • Russian Spiritual Mission in Japan
  • The instrument of human salvation
  • Comprehend our faith
  • The basis of prayer
  • Parable of the Prodigal Son
  • About the union of faith with spiritual mind
  • A word on the Presentation of the Lord
  • About faith (Why do we not have faith?..)
  • About the grace of the holidays
  • Answering the needs of sensual people
  • Icon of saints Cyrus and John
  • Carnal wisdom and spiritual mind
  • The temptation of man from eight sides. Temptation from behind
  • About miracles (In the miracles of the Lord there was no vanity...)
  • "Do not judge anyone"
  • How to pray to God correctly
  • Three stages of spiritual life
  • Take care that prayer is performed with attention
  • On the Sunday of Publican and Pharisee
  • Praying, have freedom with reasoning
  • Venerable Theodore the Studite
  • The path to God is prayer
  • A word at trial of Hieromartyr Basil Bishop of Pryluky
  • Prayer appropriates man to God
  • Compassion for animals
  • How to succeed in the prayer feat
  • I should bear witness unto the truth
  • Scattered and attentive prayer
  • Do not neglect the little
  • Why is this so?
  • Miscellaneous benefits
  • About attentiveness at prayer
  • There are no randomness on earth — everything is from the Lord
  • The pursuit of God
  • About a brief prayer
  • "Humility is great"
  • About bearing of the cross
  • To a retired woman who complains about fashion
  • About the holy fathers
  • Spiritual warfare
  • About the Holy Scripture
  • Real heroes
  • About the Eucharist
  • From "A brief rule for a pious life"
  • About the Church (Church ordinances are very useful and necessary...)
  • Adolescence
  • Continuation of earthly life
  • "Is it not all the same?"
  • About the peace of Christ (..."surpassing every mind," uniting together a man who has been dissected by sin...)
  • How to tolerate slander
  • About the fear of God
  • A cell-maid
  • About the Providence of God
  • There are no excuses for lack of faith
  • About blessed eternity
  • Coming to simplicity from posturing
  • About the Mother of God
  • A word on the Baptism of the Lord
  • Epiphany eve
  • About God (The purpose of Christ's coming to earth was to free human souls from the sin...)
  • The way of St. Simeon to the Cave Monastery
  • "Fragrance is the name of Christ"
  • The lowest step of prayer
  • The meaning of obedience
  • The work of God in the soul of man
  • "Your child's heart will be kind."
  • In this suffering true love finds pleasure
  • From a prayerful thinking on Monday
  • Treasure this precious gift of youth
  • Conversation analysis
  • In this sense, everyone can imitate Christ
  • "Do not be ashamed to confess your sins"
  • The word of love is a blessing
  • Envy
  • Prayer is the key to all the highest good
  • "Glory to Thee, Lord, that Christ was born!"
  • O God, give me peace coming from a pure heart!
  • Christ is born!
  • The heart joy, given by the Lord, no one can take from us
  • "Let us be not afraid of the difficulties of the way"
  • Give praise to God, for your faith has saved you!
  • "Envy is the clear opposite of love"
  • The Lord will open His paths for us
  • Why did the angels appear to shepherds?
  • Listening to this Divine voice, our grief subsides
  • The abyss that exists between the wisdom of God and worldly human wisdom
  • Burial of Righteous John of Kronstadt
  • Faith grows in misery
  • "Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance"
  • The one who does not love is not a Christian
  • Not only in words, but in silence let us confess the Lord
  • The deepest and most lasting
  • Confession (The sacrament of repentance is a great power!)
  • About those who stay in aberration
  • In confession, we must see the infinite goodness of the Heavenly King to His criminal subjects
  • Life's everyday sea
  • The problem of general happiness
  • To an urban dweller about gifts of sectarians
  • Grace and truth are in Christ Jesus
  • "God's mercy is immeasurable"
  • God has kept the Bible for us
  • Reaching the fullness of spiritual life, we will be like children again
  • On immortality of the soul and eternal resurrection
  • All our fear will disappear when we recognize the Lord's voice
  • The Lord has a place for you, whatever you are
  • To become a Christian meant to join the Church
  • This should be our continued ministry to Christ
  • "Do not seek rest until death"
  • Until we find Jesus, we are at a loss for truth itself
  • Grace of God
  • The responsibility of the Christian is very great
  • Non-possessiveness is better than alms
  • By the Lord everything that we live by should be imbued
  • "Only commandments purify the heart"
  • There is no randomness in death
  • "If you want to destroy someone, praise him for some virtue"
  • How would our judgements change if we could see what the Lord sees!
  • About parental blessing
  • The Lord Himself will be with us
  • Self-reproach (According to the teachings of the Holy Fathers, one of the necessary virtues...)
  • Never lose heart and never inspire gloom to others
  • Self-justification (What does "self-justification" mean? Already in its structure, this word means behaviour in which a person ascribes justice to himself...)
  • Do not neglect work in the field of the Lord
  • What kind of sacrifice is pleasing to God?
  • Turn to the Lord, revealing your heart to Him
  • Justification and seduction
  • A living connection between the soul and God
  • Communion of the Kingdom of Christ
  • "Think it not strange concerning the... trial which is to try you"
  • Not in the visible there is truth, but in the invisible
  • The Lord also accepts those who remain inactive
  • Advice to the young
  • Never lay responsibility from yourself onto others
  • To pray is to oppose pride
  • Do not be angry at the offender
  • Irritability from impatience
  • Let us do what our duty indicates to us
  • Irregular Confession cannot be complete
  • Did really all the people of the Old Testament perish?
  • Only such a vivid image of Christ the Saviour can meet our needs
  • "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy"
  • The Lord makes up for all our desires with His eternal blessings
  • Who can you open your soul to?
  • Let us pray for those who offended us
  • Sign of Christianity (Who comes to God and really wants to be a follower of Christ...)
  • Where can we get patience?
  • What does a woman have to busy herself?
  • Christ stands at the deathbed of each of His children
  • What does it mean to lie in thought?
  • The enslavement of earthly life makes the soul alien to God
  • No, we do not die
  • How do you have to punish a child?
  • The Lord knows better than you, when it is time
  • Humility is acquired by silence
  • Do your work, and the Lord will descend to your efforts
  • "Evil unreasonable obstinacy"
  • Find God Himself in your tribulation
  • "Do not order sovereignly"
  • Not only new trials, but also new joys
  • Only carry your penance kindly
  • Let us bear one another's burdens, forgetting about our own
  • The ark of the covenant is a type of the Mother of God
  • Remain firm in faith, and the Lord Almighty will be with you
  • "The Virgin goes to the Holy of Holies"
  • The power of Christ's resurrection will set you free too
  • How can you raise children by your example?
  • Look at Jesus as the only true path
  • "The hand of the educator"
  • The real purpose of life
  • About the virtue of reasoning
  • Great and important undertaking
  • Is impressionability a weakness?
  • Christ proved the possibility of resurrection
  • About the relation to the neighbour
  • To minister is something required
  • Demons do not like Jesus prayer
  • Such a treasure that should not be wasted
  • "If your wife has a vice, cast it out, not her"
  • The light of the Lord will illuminate us
  • What ask God for?
  • A word about prayer
  • Let us come to our senses
  • Peace is promised to him who trusts in the Lord
  • Laziness captures time
  • Develop abilities given to you, in order to fulfil God's will
  • "Ask God for love for your brother"
  • The shield of faith
  • "Happiness is situated in ourselves"
  • Have you known even a small fraction of Christ's thirst to save people?
  • Teach children compassion
  • The Lord needs such souls who are ready to give Him everything
  • Keep consent
  • Fixing our eyes on Christ, and we will be firm
  • The frenzy of pride
  • We will answer for every missed case to help our neighbour
  • Charter at the case of accession to the patriarchal throne
  • Behold, my soul, where the victory is!
  • Sacrifice in family life
  • That is what we must ask the Lord for
  • "Learn to make others happy"
  • The doors of paradise are wide open for anyone who repents not hypocritically
  • "A gloomy and repulsive life is not God's life"
  • In order to live, we need to die for ourselves
  • Hidden irascibility
  • And in the seeming inaction, we can work on the field of Christ
  • Do not believe your thoughts
  • A Christian must be happy
  • Thankfulness to mother
  • In the cup of human suffering there cannot be a single extra drop
  • Why is the devil called an adversary?
  • Dangerous doctrine
  • What is spiritual wisdom?
  • About Spiritual Reading
  • "Vicious lives and unbelief are connected"
  • Thee the Champion Leader
  • Touchiness comes from "self-price"
  • Sovereign Alexander III Peacekeeper
  • On the day of the death of Metropolitan John (Snychev)
  • How does the enemy act on a person?
  • About thankfulness to God
  • A word addressed to husbands
  • "But whoever saw God?"
  • "A great consolation our faith is"
  • What is the icon made for?
  • A spiritual person "has no right" to be right
  • Curiosity is a mortal sin
  • From the Treasury of St. Ambrose
  • Glory to God for everything
  • Obediently accept God's upbringing, God's time and God's ways
  • Property harassment
  • God exercises your faith. Cling to Him tightly until fulfilment is received
  • Lord, protect me from my tongue
  • Beyond the grave we can no longer help our brethren. Let's do it while they are alive
  • Rottenness, hidden inside
  • The Lord speaks to us even when we do not know this
  • "Adapt not faith to your life, but your life to faith"
  • No trial in the future can separate us from the love of Christ
  • How to bring a child to the thought of God?
  • We must listen to the voice of the Lord, seek Him with all our hearts every moment
  • Warmly cool person is pleased with himself
  • The Lord will send rest to you if you turn to Him
  • The worst disease
  • Patience is what we need most in life
  • The Power of the Cross of Christ
  • The Lord takes upon Himself the whole heaviness of our burden and is ready to bear it with us
  • Belief in the intercession of the Mother of God
  • What does self-denial consist of?
  • To one convict who asks about perjury
  • Only in unshakable trust in God may be found the power to achieve a victory
  • Eagle and rooster
  • Everyone do what you can
  • "A specimen for monastic abodes"
  • May this faith be our faith!
  • Beauty of virginity
  • Everything that is incompatible with Christ's goodness will be broken
  • "The sweetness of Divine love"
  • Everything should disappear for us so that nothing becomes between us and that glory of God
  • Monk's business is a prayer for the whole world
  • Grace is an undeserved mercy
  • Verbosity leaves a feeling of drear and laziness
  • Everything our temporary and everything eternal be inside the cross
  • "What kind of woman is without faith?"
  • Base your lives on the Word of God
  • On the need to read holy books
  • O Lord, illuminate me with Thy light and put Thy peace into my soul!
  • "Heaven! Heaven!.."
  • Going to bed, we must cleanse our heart from everything that removes us from God
  • How to choose a bride?
  • Seeds God has given us for sowing
  • The glory of priestly service
  • About the Resurrection of Christ and about our resurrection
  • The principle of prayer action
  • O you who suffer! The Lord Jesus Christ in His infinite love drank this bitter cup to the bottom
  • Memory of the holy martyresses
  • The labour path of charity is longsuffering
  • About heart simplicity
  • Thank the Lord for the temptations that give you a more complete knowledge of His goodness
  • "It is impossible to be saved without sorrows and temptations"
  • Firmly and steadfastly follow the beloved Lord, in spite of any obstacles
  • "A sign of victory over the power of death"
  • The cross will lead and us to victory
  • "A big mistake"
  • Live in constant fellowship with Christ
  • What is vindictiveness?
  • We must pray that the Lord Jesus Christ reigns alone in our whole being
  • The Lord also uses those whom no one needs
  • "Twice I was in the Holy Spirit, and twice I was in great trouble"
  • How to protect a child from vanity?
  • Remembering the lost, let us give ourselves to the service of those who remain
  • Blessed matrimony
  • A wide field is open to us, and it is in our will to work on it or lazily fold our hands
  • Why is the Nativity of the Mother of God so joyful?
  • The Lord's burden alone can heal my wounds, and only His Cross can cover them
  • Consent in family life
  • Each of us begins to live only when he dies for himself
  • Circumstances of life
  • Do not invent people, but take every person as he is
  • In His care the Lord sometimes sends us sorrows and trials
  • "Parents will always accept you"
  • "That we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble"
  • During a seemingly inaction, the greatest victory in the world was achieved
  • Love the biographies of saints
  • "The Lord is good unto them that wait for Him"
  • Living according to your own thoughts is selfishness
  • The Lord is always close to those who call on Him
  • "May marriage be about the Lord, and not by passion"
  • Wherever we are, our path leads us to our eternal homeland
  • About prayer for the rulers
  • Three degrees into which the whole life is divided
  • Ancient teaching
  • Something in our spiritual life does not weaken over the years
  • May God give honour to those who know how to wear it
  • The truth fought with vice
  • Christ alone gives life. In Him alone is salvation and awakening from a sinful sleep
  • Example of Ven. Moses the Black
  • Each of us must serve the Lord with the gift that he received from above
  • If brother insults you — test yourself
  • Blessed are those who have learnt to to pray!
  • "To love is the work of husbands, and to yield is the business of wives"
  • Reach the humility shown in Bethlehem to have the heart of a child and the wisdom of maturity
  • TV-set devastates human being
  • To those who wish to come up to the Sacrament of Communion
  • No captivity can stand against the almighty rays of God's consolation
  • "Rejoice and be glad, getting your bread by labour"
  • The Lord is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek Him
  • Heart of Holy Russ
  • Evil communications
  • How cooling in faith is in progress
  • The Lord is constantly working on you
  • How to introduce children to spiritual life?
  • The Lord turns our tears into a fertilizer of our inner soil
  • Inspire children the fear of God
  • Observe that you walk according to the Lord's command and directly to Him
  • What does upbringing consist in?
  • Let the Lord command us. Give Him complete, unconditional will
  • About the relation to the neighbour
  • Our sorrow loses all bitterness at the mere thought that it draws us closer to Christ
  • God's judgement or crisis?
  • Trust in the Lord and trust in His help, which will never be lacking
  • "God sees your mind and watches thoughts"
  • The first and most important of our duties relate to our closest brothers
  • "Ladder to Heaven"
  • Arm yourself with the instrument of the word of God
  • Children must obey their parents
  • Let us live in the present, not caring about the future
  • Love God and thank Him for everything
  • The Lord exalts us above the burden of our worries
  • Sin weakens and virtue strengthens
  • The more I take of God for myself, the more I will pour out of this and on others
  • "Let us be constant in our spiritual feat"
  • The true love of Him Who has loved from beginning to end belongs to you either
  • "It is impossible to take care of the soul and body at the same time"
  • Each disappointment in life is intended to bring us something much better
  • Your example stronger than words and instructions affects young hearts
  • What we desire is often not intended for us by the Lord at all
  • Don't let your thoughts run aside in prayer
  • May the Lord make and our desert blossom
  • About the transfiguration of people by the power of the grace of the Holy Spirit
  • Doing God's will on earth, let us first imitate the One Who is meek and lowly in heart
  • Purpose of the Transfiguration of the Lord
  • Words are the simplest means to spread out evil
  • Extreme humility is required at prayer
  • Strive forward to where the Sun of truth rises
  • One of the many forms of hypocrisy
  • A secret to be tasted in order to comprehend the constant spiritual communication with the Lord
  • Self-justification is from worldly subtilizing
  • The carefree unrequited obedience of the child should be our share
  • "Condemning vicious people, we condemn ourselves"
  • Let it become our custom to first put on Christ!
  • Where to seek comfort in sorrow?
  • In our sorrow we can benefit our neighbour and thus partly become like Christ!
  • Patience of difficulties for Christ's sake
  • May the Lord be with us, and we with Him everywhere and always!
  • Anger is temporary insanity
  • Let us follow in the Saviour's footsteps and, without reservation, give all that we have
  • About the nobility of the soul
  • Let us, remembering all the Lord's mercies, be willing to meekly give Him everything He would demand
  • "The soul, when it is humbled, then brings forth the fruit"
  • A strict report will be required of us
  • "Warm coolness is Christianity without the Living Christ"
  • Let us hope that sincere prayer will always be heard and performed for the good of us
  • On the abuse of the great gift of producing people into the world
  • But blessed are the humble
  • Denial of the eternity of torments is denial of all Christianity
  • No resentment, no neglect should diminish our jealousy and constancy in the performance of duty
  • Keeping an eye on others is a sign of pride
  • The Lord will bless our intention, if it is truly worthy of it
  • Tips about prayer
  • All the gifts we received from the Lord should be given to the service of our neighbours
  • How to behave with your husband?
  • Let us endure offences, injustices from our neighbours as tests sent by the Lord Himself
  • Without the Lord in the soul life is yearning and sorrow
  • In Christ alone we gain the fullness of life that we are thirsty of
  • Vicious intercourse before marriage takes away family love
  • Every day let us devote part of our time to take a conversation with God
  • About keeping of the heart
  • Let us never forget our complete insignificance
  • "This is a true monk"
  • Wherever we are, we can always appear before the Lord
  • "This confession spread the faith"
  • Let us turn for help to Him Who never refuses
  • Good word
  • The little that is in our power, the Lord Himself will turn in favour of the unfortunate
  • Vladimir the Red Sun
  • Looking unto Jesus, we can fulfil everything He has appointed!
  • Take thought, man, that you are nothing
  • A duty that we must continually give, without demanding and not expecting a return
  • "Calmly do what is at hand"
  • All our inner feeling tells us about eternal life
  • How elder Paisius helped people...
  • Following the Saviour, imitating Him, how can we think anything about ourselves?
  • Spiritual Mother of All Russia
  • Confession and Repentance
  • "He who loves much, will be able to do much"
  • What is meekness
  • Let us listen for the voice of the Saviour and seek Him in everything
  • "Live for others and you will be saved"
  • The light of Christ illuminates the deepest darkness of sorrow
  • Always Intercessor
  • Let us be content with the fact that the Lord leads us
  • About honouring of the spiritual father
  • Let us remember where help and consolation can come from
  • How to find a spiritual father?
  • Charity and love should illuminate, elevate and warm our every cause
  • Testament of abbot of the Great Lavra
  • Let us rely entirely on the Lord
  • On the death of our lower personality
  • The most important thing in the spiritual life
  • Contribute a portion of Heavenly, given by the Lord, in every matter, even the most insignificant
  • Tsar in the last times
  • The highest good that everyone thirsts for, but cannot reach without the Lord
  • Condescension in Christian manner
  • A matter of love, which we have no right to remove from ourselves
  • Let us reject the soul-destructive worms
  • We have one outcome, one consolation, one support
  • On the need to imitate the saints
  • And now you must get up early and be fed and armed by God with plenty, if you want to resist sin
  • "We want Christ"
  • Let us keep in our heart the hope that our prayer will someday be heard and fulfilled
  • Be like God with love
  • O Lord, let me forget myself so that I can enter into Thy joy
  • From the instructions of Rev. Ambrose of Optina about parenting
  • Nothing can be below our dignity
  • Lord exalted the Mother of God for Her humility
  • No external conditions should be able to interfere with our communication with the Lord
  • "Let us watch out vigilantly for ourselves"
  • To a foreman about faith in nature
  • To be under such dominion is real freedom!
  • "God commands the birth"
  • Let us be an open epistle of God, proclaiming His word with our every action and our whole life!
  • The affairs of life are determined by God
  • What does the spiritual life of a Christian consist of?
  • O Lord, be my Helper in my desert!
  • The world infected with false ideas
  • Why do we need to be gentle in feelings and actions?
  • The highest gifts of God are used in the simplest, everyday life
  • Eternal irritability
  • Keep pudency
  • Penetrate the light of God's love, catch every ray
  • "God is a fire"
  • Let us give the Lord our heartfelt memory
  • How to learn to love God?
  • Why did God create man and why is the Church needed?
  • May sorrow not harden the heart, but turn for the benefit of the soul
  • Prayer pleaders for the world
  • May your power be the power of love
  • Hundredth benefactor
  • Each of us can resort to the Lord in full trust with all our needs and concerns
  • What is the fear of God born from?
  • Life of St. Peter, formerly a publican
  • How to gain condescension to the neighbours?
  • Let us recall to whom we belong, and fulfil His will hourly
  • About charity
  • How to reprimand subordinates?
  • Duties of the wife towards the husband
  • Peace be unto you!
  • "Light" sins
  • It cannot be that our moral needs are left without satisfaction
  • About soulful war
  • Types of pride
  • Imitate your saint
  • "Do not leave the prayer"
  • Beware of false prophets
  • Bring into your life even a drop of God's love and God's truth
  • "What is useful for the soul is difficult for the body"
  • Priceless treasure of the native language
  • Honour to God first
  • Where is a recipe for soul's ailment?
  • Children are able to comprehend God deeply
  • What is God?
  • About family life
  • About punishing children
  • Reading of heretical books is a sin of the mind, ailing with pride
  • About the non-judgement of the neighbour
  • We should celebrate the memory of the saints with reverence
  • Here is a real prayer
  • This is the whole point of the blissful state of man
  • Let us belong to Lord's flock and be attentive to His voice
  • By experience of grief the Lord gives us an opportunity to comfort others
  • Serpent of ecumenism
  • Do better now among these who extend their hands to help others
  • Let us realize that the Lord's hand is over us, and He holds us, in this consciousness is all power
  • Let everything appear to us in the light of all the holy, infallible will of God
  • Let everyone be content with his purpose
  • Every incident that we are witnesses, has a moral teaching, and we must apply it to ourselves
  • Nature teaches us a lot
  • Wisdom in family life
  • Great advantage is to walk in newness of life!
  • May our heart be the abode of God's Kingdom
  • There is such an omnipotent power that does not allow the enemy to approach the believing soul
  • We will be safe only when we are aware of our constant dependence on God
  • First of all reconcile in full measure, completely with everyone
  • Christ compassions the needs of not only the soul, but also the body
  • What makes the soul content?
  • Do your Heavenly Father's will without asking why
  • Appeal to the Lord with a thirst for His coming and Kingdom
  • How to correct your wife?
  • Christ gave us the Father
  • The Lord is close to me all the time despite whatever may seem
  • "Look for an elder of quiet, kind, humble"
  • Do not murmur about the darkness around you
  • Let us bless because God blesses us
  • "Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth"
  • The source of God is so abundant
  • O Lord, expand the limits of my love so that I can understand the whole depth of Thy love
  • Remember that strength is not given for tomorrow, but for today's cross
  • True love itself is a prayer
  • Let us fall down at the feet of Christ, lest we cross the threshold of sin
  • By cutting off one's will, one gains impassivity
  • Teach me, Lord, to understand how much Thy promise exceeds all that I have left behind
  • Impoverishment of Spirit in Christians
  • A property that is above all mind and which no mind can embrace
  • Flows of grace have gave drink to every wilderness
  • "Death is not an unexpected misfortune, but a common destiny for all of us"
  • "Oh, good and holy shepherd"
  • Without a visible support, follow the path of obedience
  • When dealing with people, keep the word "love" in your heart
  • What is the whole world suffering for?
  • Love that requires vengeance can never be pleasing to the Lord
  • Bishop and Surgeon
  • A simplest list of sins to be confessed
  • Sins and sinful states against God
  • Sins and crimes towards neighbours
  • Carnal sins
  • Sins and sinful manifestations in the family
  • Sin in relation towards oneself
  • "I am with you and no man is against you"
  • Pascha is a transition from worse to better
  • Remembering Peter's abdication, let us always seek to be faithful to our Saviour until death
  • The transfer of the elder Neil to his disciples
  • Only that is true, firm and eternal, what is revealed by God Himself
  • Do not surrender despair of illness
  • Good Lord! Turn me also into one of Thy implements
  • How to help a drinking husband
  • Walking in the Lord's footsteps, we cannot stray from the road
  • Feeding at the confessor
  • The whole surplus of our earthly sufferings will then turn into exceeding weight of glory
  • Remember, children, the fifth commandment
  • Don't lose a chance to help others, alleviate their suffering
  • The wonderful fruit of the Baptism of Russia
  • O Lord, help me take on other people's burdens to escape to the freedom that Thou grantest
  • If there is pride, then faith is ineffective
  • Let us learn not to succumb to worries and difficulties, and not exaggerate their significance
  • How does the spiritual advancement of man occur?
  • Let us be sure that whenever we stand before God we will receive a blessing from above
  • Let us hurry, repentant, to the Lord's feet in fervent prayer and thanksgiving for unspeakable Gift
  • Recognizing our weakness and inability, let us call for help from above
  • "Who were the myrrh-bearing women?"
  • What should love be?
  • Making the deeds Christ calls you to do, remember that you're only an instrument in His hands
  • Holy Fathers about military service
  • Let us not weaken in the prayer for a new heart
  • Wait with patience and trust
  • Your children will not be safe but only with the Lord
  • About true humility
  • Prayer for the departed is the duty of love for neighbours
  • About military case
  • Only encouraged by the love of God, we can hope to accomplish the work entrusted to us
  • Thomas's confession
  • Always turning to the light, draw in it fresh strength and new cheerfulness to serve the neighbours
  • "Glory, O Lord, to Thy glorious Resurrection!"
  • Never lose hope for the salvation of souls kindred to you
  • Christ's Victory is a gift to the whole world
  • Christ Himself will receive all we give from the heart
  • "Yes, the great days are now"
  • What does it mean to love God?
  • Let us hurry to give our soul to our neighbours!
  • God wants to cleanse your soul
  • We will learn to bless and praise what has cost us the most tears
  • "God is the highest good"
  • Caring only for today, we will always receive enough light
  • Among all the crosses sent by the Lord our own one is the only suitable for us
  • Apostolic miracles are a proof of the Resurrection of Christ
  • "Day of all joy and heartfelt gladness"
  • The greatness of the Resurrection
  • Oh, if we could curb our tongue!
  • "Love more great than the love of the God-man for us, is impossible"
  • May the Lord give and us to see a holy Angel comforter
  • Maundy Thursday
  • The Lord will manifest His power in you
  • "His name became hateful to the whole world"
  • A good impulse to which we give give way will not die with us
  • The parable of the ten virgins
  • Lord! May Thy will, be done!
  • "Accompany the Lord"
  • Remain pure, even among the thick darkness of worldly evil
  • "And all, taking Thy cross, we say"
  • We must first of all humble ourselves and subdue all malice in ourselves
  • The Resurrection of Lazarus
  • Our connection in Christ with the invisible world is never broken
  • Instructions of Venerable Sebastian of Karaganda
  • Let us decide firmly to bear our burdens, trusting in the Lord
  • When does Christianity begin?
  • Arise, and follow Christ
  • What are the kinds of good deeds?
  • Let us be unshakable in our intention to live by faith
  • "The comfort of the body is our enemy"
  • No sin of yours may be hidden, but everything will be exposed
  • "Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted"
  • Let us arise and go after the Lord
  • The Lord accepts repentance
  • There will come the obvious triumph of Jesus crowned with glory despite all evils
  • Blessed is he who is set to preach the Gospel
  • You should, holding fast to Christ, bear much fruit
  • Verbosity and prudent silence
  • Everything without exception in your life is mercy
  • The whole war is for humility
  • The help from God will be given
  • How to beat condemnation?
  • We must never forget our neighbours
  • Signs of a person who has the fear of God
  • Let us purge the old leaven
  • On the influence of his wife on her husband
  • The Lord declares to us the great Mystery of Communion
  • Depth of the Mystery of God's Incarnation
  • Secret feat of love and selflessness is before God much more merit than deeds standing in sight
  • Proof of the immortality of the human soul
  • Let the Lord tune the strings of your soul
  • What is the cause of soul emptiness?
  • Let us do good to our neighbour without indulging evils
  • "Silence is a great force"
  • Let us hasten to take refuge in the Lord
  • Repent without hesitation and doubt
  • May the grace of the Lord fill our whole being
  • The harvest of eternal life will come
  • "It was from Me..."
  • Let us come to Christ to satisfy our spiritual thirst
  • Let us go to the Lord and cry to Him from the very depths of our despair
  • By sharing in His suffering, the soul unites with Christ
  • Let us follow Christ giving us sight
  • Love does not die
  • Why is the fear of God needed?
  • Let us extend the withered heart to Christ
  • "Don not think evil about anyone, otherwise you will become evil yourself"
  • That's what charity does!
  • Repenting, let us return to the Lord that He could heal us!
  • Let us earnestly desire the Lord to show us His will in all cases of our life
  • About the luminous sign of the Cross appeared in heaven
  • Let us go with the Lord as with the loving Leader
  • Proceedings against lack of faith
  • What should we see our sins for?
  • "Better is a little with humility and for obedience"
  • The path is opened for us to alleviate and mitigate the sorrow of others
  • Instead of our neighbour let us judge ourselves harshly
  • About the protection of senses
  • Having started, do not back down
  • Parents participate in the formation of the child's immortal soul
  • Are you ready?
  • What does humility consist?
  • No earthly good can compare with kindness
  • The story of two garrulous women of fast
  • Be illumined with a ray of Heavenly light
  • Brief instructions
  • God will not leave you until you turn to Him
  • It is the highest, the deepest, one real good
  • Hold tight for the love of Christ
  • Spiritual hunger
  • "Not all souls are equally strong"
  • A misfortune will turn into a good for us
  • "Be careful not to talk harshly and arrogantly"
  • "There is enough time for everything, but not for prayer!"
  • A prayer of the often falling man
  • Those wishing to be saved need a feat
  • The Lord never leaves us, no matter what seems us
  • About prayer and fasting
  • About our unworthiness
  • Let us cast everything upon the Lord
  • Responsibility of parents for raising children
  • In defense of veneration of the icons
  • "For God is the Doctor"
  • Mystery of the will of God
  • "In repentance there is the whole mystery of salvation"
  • "You should keep your ears"
  • Study of own self
  • The Lord fasted for the sake of ours
  • "Join together in the feats of rising from fallings"
  • Get up to business instead of complaining!
  • Self-justification casts out the grace of God
  • Is paradise worthy of giving up earthly pleasures?
  • How Christ comforts you
  • "How unreasonable creature works for us, so that we, rational, work for God"
  • Verbosity from self-conceit
  • A Christian should not hate life
  • "Do not be as the hypocrites are"
  • "Everything has its sense, meaning and purpose"
  • About the torments of hell
  • God in the heart can take only the first place
  • "The Judgement of Christ will be truly terrible"
  • How to help the departed soul?
  • Blessed are the peacemakers
  • If the husband is an unbeliever...
  • Faith in Christ should unite us
  • Great person is a minister at the altar of God
  • May the Lord's mercies flow through us
  • There is no true love without Orthodox faith
  • One path of God was laid for man from the beginning of time
  • Approaching and moving away from God
  • Be afraid of upsetting Christ
  • Edifying lesson for a youth
  • The Lord has enlarged our hearts
  • Appearance of Hieromartyr Charalampios to Venerable Arsenios of Cappadocia
  • The Lord calls us all to Himself
  • Freedom and slavery
  • The Lord descends to all my needs
  • Self-love is the root of evil
  • The truth should be the basis of our every thought
  • Sin eclipses the eyes of the soul
  • Divine grace is the only thing we need
  • How to treat your wife?
  • Obey the Lord to bear an eternal fruit
  • The Gospel about the true and imaginary man of prayer
  • Abide with us!
  • To whom did the Lord say the parable of the publican and the Pharisee?
  • Go to the Lord and find in Him eternal rest to your souls
  • No good deeds a man will carry into his coffin
  • Think about the harvest when you sow
  • The feast of the wondrous meeting and the first parting
  • The Lord tells each of us exactly what he needs
  • Heavy harm of verbiage
  • The only necessary condition for bearing fruit
  • "Expel malice by clearness of your forehead"
  • Let us forget about ourselves, always ready to give way to another
  • The advice of the three saints
  • No one will escape the Judgement of God
  • Pray for others, be meek and humble-wise
  • The gift of God, dwelling in me, must flame and light
  • About veneration of the new martyrs
  • Let us rely on God, not on ourselves
  • When you give thanks, God takes away the sorrow
  • Where have we built our nest?
  • By justification we isolate ourselves from God
  • He will tell us all things
  • The beauty of conjugality
  • Our souls may not perish
  • How to raise obedient children?
  • The spiritual should be over the mundane
  • "To be a servant to all"
  • Be ready
  • "A bad word makes the good bad, but a good word makes the bad good"
  • The highest happiness consists in holiness
  • About the prayer of unrepentant sinners
  • Accept the blessing prepared for you in Christ and transfer it to all around
  • About conscience and shame
  • Turn eyes to the light
  • Every good deed for the evil one is desirable to denigrate
  • Even the shadow of some people acts beneficially
  • How to keep a marriage happy?
  • The effect of the prayer is striking
  • God is always the same
  • The thought of God's Judgement must be a bridle to our tongue
  • Gracious life of the child
  • How is it to know the true faith?
  • "You have to restrain yourself"
  • For God and some little things are great
  • "Wonderful fruits of forgiveness of injuries"
  • The good that has been done does not die
  • Curiosity about the shortcomings of others
  • Christ's grace is sufficient for us
  • Teachings without piety do arrogant
  • Let our hidden man stand before the Lord
  • Freedom in circulation devastates love
  • How do we follow Christ?
  • "Everyone that is met must be received as a messenger of God"
  • Come to the immortality granted in Baptism
  • The Lord wants me
  • The life of St. Alexis the Man of God
  • Let us realise our spiritual thirst and let the Lord quench it
  • The spiritual and the carnal birth
  • The Lord is close to us
  • Our love for God
  • Meaning of the parable of the unjust steward
  • Homily for the Epiphany
  • Don't become teachers soon
  • Let Christ visit you with His Spirit
  • Christmas message of Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna
  • Everyone needs patience
  • Warm coolness is a sad phenomenon
  • The purpose of the sent down test
  • "Sweetness of the blessed life in God"
  • Let us have hope
  • About love to neighbours
  • Blessed are those who are not offended
  • Circumcision of the Lord
  • It's possible to remember the sins and with bad memory
  • A hint and a hunch
  • In the desire to bear fruit
  • Envy is sorrow of the heart about the well-being of the neighbour
  • On the threshold of unknown future
  • "The Holy Spirit makes the soul wise, when we listen to the advice of our shepherds"
  • The name of a woman who commits infanticide is "death"
  • Love will remain forever
  • Joyful mystery
  • How to pray in times of sorrow
  • God creates the world not so like a man
  • Let us learn to serve Christ in our speeches
  • Life of the soul consists of every minute thoughts and feelings
  • About insistence in prayer
  • "We are in this life as if in another maternal womb"
  • About abundance of life and love the Saviour wants to give us
  • "Let us rejoice, beloved,— our Saviour is now born!"
  • The meaning of Christmas
  • "Christ brought to earth not a new idea, but a new life"
  • Let us accept the Saviour into our heart
  • "The main reason for any confusion"
  • Let's bring gifts to the Lord
  • What does it mean to believe in God?
  • The dew of God's grace
  • "A year of the time of the Kingdom of His goodness"
  • About perfection of love
  • "Happy are those people who love Father John"
  • About the monk Anikita and polyarthritis
  • The image of Christ
  • Reality of the spiritual world
  • "The Lord is everything to me"
  • On freedom of will in a man
  • "Miracles and signs do not happen without a reason"
  • "We must become different"
  • "The ever current Source"
  • "Those who look at them are driven to remember and to love the prototypicals"
  • Venerable Tryphon's icon of the Mother of God
  • The face of the Mother of God
  • Prayer for the middle
  • Getting rid of the binge and madness before the Tolga Icon
  • Kolodiivka Icon of the Mother of God
  • The soul-saving story about Mount Sinai
  • Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos by Righteous Anna
  • Unexpected Joy for all sinners
  • "Mary full of grace..."
  • The zeal by faith
  • A wonderful rescue
  • Damascene's Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
  • A woman in the world
  • Story about an icon from the Holy Mountain
  • Iberia is the inheritance of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • About the holy mystery of Repentance
  • Under the omophorion of the Mother of God
  • "Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign; behold, a Virgin shall conceive..." (Isa. 7, 14)
  • What word will depict, O Virgin Mary, Thy divinely shone beauty?
  • Oil-streaming icon
  • "The fruits of Mary's vineyard"
  • Help of Our Lady
  • Gregoriou Icon of the Mother of God
  • "Merciful" (Eleousa)
  • The Mother of God anoints a worshipful monk
  • "Hail Mary!"
  • Place of the appearance of God's glory
  • Image of the Most Pure
  • Myrrh-streaming icon
  • "This icon Cross-Theotokion..."
  • A prayer ("I'm, O God's Mother, now with prayer...")
  • "Nevsky Quick to Hearken"
  • The Light of Romania
  • "I am the vine, ye are the branches" (Jn. 15, 5)
  • The First Martyress of the Church
  • "Glorifying Mediatrix Diligent"
  • "Sweet Kiss"
  • "Under Her honest omophorion"
  • Kremenets shrine
  • A miracle in Optina
  • Shuya "Hodegetria"
  • "The Lady descended from the heavenly circles..."
  • In the abode of the Mother of God
  • "Overshadow our city with Thy gracious face!"
  • "She is a Healer to the whole world"
  • "Let us also imitate the humility of the Mother of God"
  • Many lamps...
  • "O Queen of heaven and earth..."
  • "Joy of all who sorrow"
  • About reading of the akathist to comfort
  • "She's alive!"
  • To Thee, O Most Holy Mother
  • Greatness of the Mother of God
  • "The Virgin can save people from troubles and sins"
  • "Relieving from pain"
  • The Icon "Before Birth and after Birth the Virgin"
  • "A martyr by will, even if without blood, like a son is adopted by the Virgin into eternal shelters"
  • "There is on the Earth such abode..."
  • Yakhroma Icon of the Mother of God
  • The Miracle of God
  • Saving of the Jerusalem Icon
  • "Save me from drowning!"
  • Korsun Icon
  • Images of Our Lady
  • "Rejoice! I'm with you in all the days!"
  • The temple of God is the guardian of the Mother of God
  • The soul occupied with intelligent prayer is like the virgin womb of the Mother of God
  • Icon of the Mother of God "Koukouzelissa"
  • In a church of the Virgin
  • Under the Cover of the Mother of God
  • "In Thee rejoiceth..."
  • A hope for the help of Our Lady
  • Adoption of John the Theologian to the Theotokos
  • "May She keep and your son..."
  • Queen of the Holy Mountain
  • Prophecy about the Virgin Theotokos
  • Shrine of Bryansk land
  • Return of the Lady
  • Makariev Icon
  • A miracle of expiration of myrrh, which was on September 16, 1392
  • Appearance of the Virgin to Venerable Job, in the schema Joshua, of Anzer
  • Monastery holidays of Holm Province (1897-1902)
  • Golgotha-Crucifixion Skete on Anzer
  • Boyany Icon
  • "And Her only name pleases the soul"
  • At the Protecting Veil
  • "God's chosen and God's sanctified vessel"
  • "Holm festival"
  • She Who bore God
  • Arapetskaya (Arabic) Icon
  • Orsha Icon of the Mother of God
  • "Burning Bush" in Khamovniki
  • To brotherhood of the Holy Prophet Elijah about the sower of tares
  • Vologda Icon the "Sign"
  • On the day of Chernigov-Gethsemane Icon of the Mother of God
  • The lay of the honest belt of the Theotokos
  • Pskov-Protection Icon
  • Azov Icon of the Mother of God
  • A wonderful liberation
  • Under the protection of Our Lady
  • Victimhood (In a war where there is a struggle for life, fearlessness is...)
  • Tonsured man of the Holy Mountain
  • The Vladimir Icon of Harbin
  • Georgian Icon in the Raif Monastery
  • To the emergence of the Photographic image of the Most Holy Theotokos on Mount Athos
  • Orthodox image of the Mother of God
  • "Donskaya"
  • The zealous Protectress of the Christian people
  • The Heavenly Queen
  • Feodorovskaya (Theodore) Icon
  • Visit to the tomb of the Blessed Virgin in Gethsemane
  • Kiev-Pechersk Icon of the Assumption
  • The appearance of Our Lady to Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk
  • "Veneration of the Queen of Heaven is the soul of all Orthodoxy."
  • Tolga Abode
  • From the spiritual experiences of Venerable Eleazar of Anzer
  • Deliverance from disease and from robbers
  • Trigorye Icon
  • On the days of the Assumption fast
  • Penza-Kazan icon of the Mother of God
  • "All-Merciful Protectress"
  • Self-justification, or False state
  • Achair Icon
  • "Harbinger"
  • Vorgol Icon
  • Okonskaya Icon of the Mother of God
  • Rudosilska Icon
  • The Patroness of our Fatherland
  • From Athonite stories
  • Heart of the Mother
  • Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • "Her eye is a lightning"
  • In Pochaev Lavra
  • Types and prophecies about the Mother of God
  • "A look of extraordinary love"
  • Builder of the Great Lavra in the domain of the Virgin
  • "And tears were from Her eyes."
  • On renewal of the icons in the revolutionary years of the 20th century
  • Patroness of Yaroslavl
  • Konev Icon
  • Berkolabov Icon of the Mother of God
  • Saviour of Pskov
  • "O Most Pure Virgin, Mother of Holm Region"
  • Holy Mountains
  • "Our Mediatrix Diligent"
  • "I, poor, have begged the Mother of God for you"
  • The royal icon
  • Communion with Saints
  • On the day of appearance of Akhtyrskaya Icon
  • The Mediatrix for Northern Athos
  • Intercessor of Volhynia
  • Pryazhev Icon of the Mother of God
  • The way from the Holy Land to Athos
  • Disease
  • The law of holiness of God
  • Christ is God incarnate
  • To a modest man who repented of having sinned with the word
  • Treasure of the Monastery of Dionysiat
  • Pisarevskaya Icon
  • Confession and Communion: how not to confuse the beginning of the path with its end?
  • Zaonikiev Icon
  • "Unquenchable Candle"
  • "I saw the Queen in the air"
  • The king and his adviser
  • Return of the Shrine
  • "It was an amazing sight"
  • In honour of the Theotokos
  • From the notes of Venerable Barsanuphius of Optina
  • "Quick aid from the Blessed Lady"
  • On the Ever-virginity of Blessed Mary
  • Instruction on the 54th beginning of the Gospel of Luke
  • Igritsy-Pesochnya Icon
  • "Let the bells ring in the Pechersk Monastery!"
  • The eminent lord and a beggar in one person
  • "Turn to the Lord, call the Mother of God"
  • Healing from the Uryupin Icon of the Mother of God
  • "This place is Mine!"
  • Pimen's Icon
  • Shrines of the Great Church
  • The "Holy Cross" Icon
  • Dubovychi Icon
  • Bezhevo Icon
  • "Here is the rest, here is shelter..."
  • Safety
  • Where is the Kingdom of Heaven?
  • "But why do not they pray? Why not ask?"
  • "I am Surety of sinners to My Son..."
  • Galich Icon
  • By prayers to the Most Holy Theotokos
  • To a forester about the wings of John the Forerunner
  • "Enlighten 'those who sit in darkness!'"
  • Rzhavskaya Icon of the Mother of God
  • On the renewal of holy icons
  • Blessing of the Mother of God
  • Icon of the Virgin "on the Oran (Plaughed) field"
  • Old Testament Prophecies
  • Smolensk-Kostroma Icon
  • Madness as punishment for blasphemy
  • Unharmed shrine
  • The Mother of God banishing Artemis
  • Tupichev Icon
  • About the need for repentance
  • Descent of the Holy Spirit upon Ever-Virgin
  • Tereben Icon of the Mother of God
  • In the Troodos Mountains
  • Clarity of mind
  • Star of the Serbian Church
  • Perekop Icon of the Mother of God
  • Testimony about Our Lady
  • Icon of the Mother of God "Tenderness"
  • Veneration of the Virgin Mary
  • "The Inexhaustible Chalice"
  • From Ascension till Pentecost
  • To some ferryman about a stupid oath
  • Miracle in the Zhitomir region
  • "Give us an unexpected joy"
  • "The body of Hers became a repository and a source of miracles"
  • Healing
  • Mezhyrich Icon
  • A wonderful apparition in Alexandrovka
  • The purpose of life
  • Spaso-Eleazarovsky Monastery (now Convent)
  • Shrine of Putivlian Land
  • To a pious spouse about her sectarian husband
  • Miracles of the Mother of God on Mount Athos
  • "She became the Mother of God and remained Her forever"
  • Stavrovouni
  • Vaskovsky-Yelsk Icon
  • "Defend with Thy honest robe"
  • Mercy of the Virgin
  • Defender of Tambov
  • Struggle against sins
  • Miraculous rescue from the fire
  • "In the simplicity of the heart look to every icon"
  • Belt of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • Appearance of the Mother of God on Pochaev Hill
  • "The Mother of God, as the Good Mother, cares for the monks in Her lot"
  • Cesar-Borovsky Icon
  • Spanish Icon of the Mother of God
  • Byzantine Icon of the Mother of God
  • Terebovlya Icon
  • "Gerondissa"
  • Apparition of the Most Pure Virgin
  • Intercessor for all people
  • "The Key of Reason"
  • "If you cross the Jordan, you will find a good rest"
  • Ipatiev Icon of the Mother of God
  • "It can not be!"
  • Wonderful renovation of the icon
  • Radomyshl image of the Mother of God
  • "The Mother of God will not leave us"
  • Miraculous deliverance from captivity
  • Wondrous mystery
  • Near the Cross
  • Antioch Icon
  • What is salvation and why does a modern man need it?
  • The Novo-Sverzhensky shrine
  • Comfort
  • Krasnoyilsk myrrh-streaming icon
  • Icon of the Mother of God "Tenderness"
  • Visit to Cyprus by the Most Pure Virgin
  • The icon, which you can't look at
  • Marvelous event
  • About the truth and the future Judgement
  • About the intercession for the Christians of the Mother of God
  • Patroness of the house of the Romanovs
  • Miraculous icons
  • The not-made-by-hand, revealed image of the Mother of God
  • About the service of the Sabbath of Akathist
  • Iconography of "Praise of the Theotokos"
  • Hope and pride
  • On the miraculous save of the icon "The Sign" in 1898
  • Apparition of the Mother of God
  • To a disconsolate mother about bad children
  • Aloofness
  • Gidla Icon
  • Temple in the name of the Reigning Icon
  • Under the reigning Cover
  • The cell icon of St. Pitirim
  • Help of the Virgin
  • "I... came to heal you"
  • A miracle from the Novgorod Icon of the Mother of God "Sign"
  • Mercy of the Mother of God
  • Sokolsky image of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • "A pledge of... incessant communication"
  • The hospital temple
  • To a father who looked for medicine for his son everywhere
  • The Appearance of Our Lady to Venerable Dositheus
  • Pea field
  • "Tearing"
  • "There is nothing random for a believer"
  • About importance of thanksgiving
  • Podolskaya Icon
  • About appearance of the Mother of God to the twelve builders of the Great Assumption Church
  • Testimonies of the Church
  • Pain. Our soul needs pain
  • Why are we sad?
  • Rescue of the shrine from the temple of the village of Stromyn
  • Kerkyra Image of the Mother of God
  • "Above the path, which bloodied was and long..."
  • About veneration of the Mother of God
  • Procession with the shrine
  • Smyrna Icon
  • To a merchant of cattle about the will of God
  • "Recovery of the perished"
  • The teaching of Abba John about the acquisition of virtues
  • Is Candlemas the Lord's feast or the feast of the Mother of God?
  • Crying Icon of Our Lady
  • The miracle of taming the storm
  • The Island of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • Intercession of the Theotokos on the Day of the Last Judgement
  • Ancient abode
  • To a pilgrim about the fulfilled prediction
  • Sayings of the elders, whose names have not reached us with Conclusion
  • The first icons of the Mother of God
  • Sayings of the elders, whose names have not reached us (more)
  • Revered image from the Smolensk Church
  • Sayings of the elders, whose names have not reached us
  • Pearls of Kostroma land
  • Newfound shrine
  • Mother Superior of the Holy Mountain Athos
  • Scete monks, Abba Tiphoy, Abba Theodore of Hermea, and Abba Theodore of Ennata
  • Graceful Intercessor
  • Sayings of Abba Serapion and abba Stratilatius
  • Abba Silouan
  • Abba Sisoy the Great said
  • House of the Most Pure on Storozhi
  • "She is the Mother of God"
  • Abba Pimen the Great said
  • Zimnenskaya Icon of the Mother of God
  • Shrine of Xenophon Monastery
  • "There are no numbers... for the images of the Mother of God"
  • "I will be your Patroness"
  • Iconographic types of icons of the Virgin
  • Tula inheritance of the "Nursing the Child"
  • Pregnancy and Divine consolation
  • "It is miraculous!"
  • Priestling Icon
  • Egyptian Icon of the Mother of God
  • "Upon Thy right hand did stand the Queen"
  • "Do you have need of guidance? Run to the Lady"
  • About the icons of the Mother of God
  • About the veneration of holy icons
  • Woman's seed shall bruise the head of serpent
  • Bishop Ilias Miniatis
  • Why do Russians especially venerate the Theotokos?
  • "Help in childbirth"
  • Rescue of the image of the Queen of Heaven
  • Barlovskaya Icon
  • "Merciful" ("The Hearer")
  • Vilna-Ostrobramska Icon
  • Council of the Most Holy Theotokos
  • Image of the Virgin
  • Icon of the Mother of God "Three Joys"
  • The "Slain" Icon of the Virgin
  • "Saviouress of the drowning"
  • Novodvorskaya Icon of the Mother of God
  • "Look at the image of the Lady"
  • To two friends who argue, "Is it necessary to give Communion to the sick?"
  • Eternal treasure
  • Pure in heart
  • Only in God does the soul gain peace
  • You save faith — everything will be saved
  • Heavenly inhabitant walking on the ground
  • The Lord loves the righteous
  • Rejoice, an unexpected joy to the faithful that giveth!
  • Our duty is to stand for the truth of God
  • "In each separately sits Judas"
  • Shepherd of love
  • "Be afraid to defile your bodily temple"
  • Mystery of Faith
  • The harbinger of Russian Calvary
  • "Block off the source of trouble"
  • Seraphim means "flaming"
  • The Merciful Bishop
  • The main business of the shepherd is the preaching of the word of God
  • The bride of Christ
  • On the guard of folk morals
  • Let's follow the Most Holy Virgin
  • Saving of the peasant
  • "Metropolitan of All Russia"
  • "Behold, there went out a sower to sow"
  • Beware of gossip about the priesthood
  • "God's salt"
  • The secret of Chrysostom's eloquence
  • Russian hierarchs at the grave of Blessed John
  • Bishop's Crown of Thorns
  • About the pristine beauty of the soul
  • Bright and majestic image
  • For the truth of God
  • "The people needs Patriarch"
  • "It is better to consider all to be the saints"
  • All-conquering meekness
  • Do you want to go to paradise? Forgive everyone
  • "Remember the end"
  • Finding of the Shrine
  • The Holy Scripture and the Church
  • The voice of the people's conscience
  • Warlord, who defeated sin
  • About the insult of the squalid
  • The Man of Prayer and the Martyr of Christ
  • Only in the Lord there is peace and quiet
  • "I still preserve Orthodoxy with the grace of God"
  • Zealot of the Church
  • Whoever dies for himself will come to life for God
  • About the love of children and original sin
  • "Let us praise... the light scribe of the Gospel of Christ"
  • "The merciful... shall obtain mercy"
  • A champion of the restoration of memory of all the saints of the Russian land
  • For fidelity to the sacred canons
  • Miraculous overshadowing of the Iveron Icon
  • The Parable of the Invisibly Growing Seed
  • The Parable of the Soul-Hostess
  • The Pillar of God's Truth
  • The Image of the Theophany to Abraham
  • To a peasant who complains that he is haunted by fear
  • "I fully understand the responsibility of my duty"
  • Indifference and murmur
  • "Let our heart always be at the feet of the Mother of God"
  • "I dare not resist"
  • Assembly of Moscow Hierarchs
  • Fixation in the love of God
  • Hierarch-Confessor
  • How to eradicate evil?
  • The Most Exalted of All Saints
  • The first hierarch of the Russian land
  • We are called to follow in the footsteps of the saints of God
  • What is the most to be feared?
  • Having a good conscience
  • God's gift
  • To a merchant about the fruits of fasting
  • The hierarchs are the eyes of the Church
  • To an anonymous author about what such a special thing Christ made
  • Enlightener of the Far East
  • Marvelous Wonderworker
  • The river of healings
  • Let us listen to shepherds and ask for understanding from God
  • Jealous of God's truth
  • To a poor seamstress about the victory over evil
  • Having endured tribulation for the Russian Church
  • The spiritual exaltation of the cross
  • About mutual love to Him That has loved us
  • Our crosses
  • The incorruptibility of holiness
  • "They tell us the Word of God"
  • "The main thing is to live a life worthy."
  • "Lady Theotokos! Keep the Russian people..."
  • The merciful archpastor
  • The hand of the Rostov wonderworker is the shrine of the temple of Archangel Michael
  • "Start a count from zero"
  • Chosen of the Mother of God
  • "We need to forgive all everything"
  • Abba Pamvo said
  • The people who honour God will always be blessed
  • To one woman about the crazy
  • St. Macarius and Venerable Alexander Svirsky
  • Conscience is the voice of God in the soul
  • The Vision of Metropolitan Dionysius
  • Good shepherd-bishop (In the life of the priest-confessor Nicholas, Met. of Alma-Ata...)
  • The essence of the Christian feat
  • The patron of the Russian land
  • The missionary-hieromartyr
  • Having followed Christ to the end
  • Facilitating the bonds of royal passion-bearers
  • Be faithful to the faith of the fathers
  • Enlightener of Perm land
  • The Lord strengthens us with the memory of the saints
  • The Saint and the Reverend
  • "Before this holy image..."
  • On the steps of humility, purity and love
  • For fidelity to Christ
  • Loved by the people
  • Salvation from the fire of lies
  • True fasting
  • The holy lot
  • The chosen one of God
  • The Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow
  • How can we establish ourselves in faith?
  • The champion of the unity of the church
  • Fasting is an extremely important matter
  • The Way to God is the Way of Repentance
  • Looking at the Cross of Christ
  • "Christ is our life, light and rest"
  • "I am a faithful son of my people"
  • "The preciousness of the human soul"
  • Jealousy by the faith of Christ
  • Standing in the Truth of God
  • Miracle in the forest near Rzhev
  • Dreams (Do not attach importance to dreams...)
  • Mother of God and saints are the healers of children's infirmities
  • The Heart of the Holy Myrrh-Bearer
  • Calm down from the worldly noise
  • Visiting Venerable Seraphim
  • Is God just?
  • "Man! Understand your dignity"
  • The meaning of the holy fathers for us Christians
  • Acquiring of the holy faith
  • Whether is it to talk with others about spiritual life?
  • Do not break the similarity with the Angels
  • Happiness (People, when they receive something at will, are called happy...)
  • Repose of the Blessed Princess Olga
  • A medicine against hatred
  • Conscience (Conscience is a sense of the human spirit, subtle, bright...)
  • Mediatrix Diligent of the Christian Kind
  • "We are raw firewood"
  • Mentor of the whole people
  • Personification of Holy Russ
  • Tsar-Martyr Nicholas
  • Relocation of the relics of St. Philip
  • St. Photius of Moscow
  • About skills
  • Memorial Day of the Apostles
  • The word in the day of the holy apostles Peter and Paul
  • According to our sins and our misfortunes happen
  • The faithful warrior of Christ
  • St. Dionysius of Suzdal
  • The deepest meaning of marriageable union
  • Word in the day of Birth of the Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John
  • What is death?
  • Work on holidays
  • The seeing of one's own sin
  • The first prelate of the Kazan diocese
  • "Their covenants are our sacred things"
  • In the two commandments about love for God and love for one's neighbour there is the whole law
  • "I'm not a judge in my own business"
  • Spiritual and literary works of St. Theophane the Recluse
  • "Being in humility and love"
  • About Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev
  • God rules the world
  • Simple mind and wicked mind
  • St. John of Tobolsk
  • And what have to do the parents, whose child left home?
  • The feast of "All saints resplendent in the Russian land"
  • A citizen
  • "To live in God's way..."
  • About the Great Martyr Theodore Stratelates
  • What is Christian wisdom?
  • "Give us this day our daily bread" (Matt. 6, 11)
  • "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matt. 11, 28)
  • Celebration in honour of Kiev-Brotherly Icon of the Mother of God
  • From the word before the requiem on the fortieth day after the death of Father John of Kronstadt
  • God's incessant Providence for each of us
  • "I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered"
  • "A huge multitude of saints"
  • The transfer of the relics of the Moscow saints Cyprian, Photius and Jonas
  • Do not be upset
  • Saint Innocent of Kherson in the days of bombardment of Odessa in 1854
  • From the "Word of Law and Grace"
  • Day of the Holy Spirit
  • A word on Pentecost
  • Commemoration in the ecumenical Sabbaths
  • About the correction of church books
  • Without the bishop, there is no Church
  • There is no true happiness and perfect well-being without God
  • The Gospel is a spiritual treasure
  • A thought on the seashore
  • About Sunday
  • The first opening of the relics of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk
  • Opening of the relics of St. Hermogenes
  • Ascension of the Lord (I would call this holiday joyous, but what can be the joy for the children that the father leaves them?..)
  • And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself (Isa. 2, 9)
  • From the message of Simon Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal to Polycarp, monk of the Caves
  • The arrival of the relics of St. Nicholas in Bari
  • The main significance of the holiday
  • "Tsar Nicholas the Long-suffering"
  • Drunkenness
  • The Divine origin of shepherding
  • "For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light" (Matt. 11, 30)
  • The Lubny Wonderworker
  • Jesus and the Samaritan: instructive reflections
  • From the letter of St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) to Hegumen Damaskin to Valaam
  • Venerable Leo and St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)
  • "I give out the words of God..."
  • About preaching
  • "Food for our souls"
  • Who truly wants his salvation, he fulfils all that serves for salvation
  • Blood of the Martyrs
  • "Courage is lacking..."
  • The Mother of God
  • Father and children
  • Blessing to Saint Maxim
  • Word in Sunday of myrrh-bearers
  • A miracle from the Ilyinsky-Chernigov Icon of the Mother of God, which was in 1671
  • Healing through the prayers of righteous John of Kronstadt
  • The first Orthodox sermon in Tokyo
  • Organizer of the Ioanno-Predtechensky Skete
  • Cemetery
  • "Regal day"
  • The spiritual heritage of St. Ignatius
  • Myrrh-Bearers
  • To preach the word, being instant in season, out of season
  • "For such there is no Resurrection of Christ"
  • The burden of patriarchal service
  • "Christ is risen!" (Not only on earth, but also in Heaven there is not... more joyous than this greeting...)
  • "But we see Jesus... for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour" (Heb. 2, 9).
  • "Great is the present day of rest"
  • Word before the Shroud
  • God's will
  • Miracle of incorruption
  • Conversation with God
  • "Should I go?"
  • "Let Christ now enter our Jerusalem"
  • "Today is the head of our salvation!"
  • Great Moscow Patriarchs
  • Resurrections of the dead by the Saviour
  • About the Consolation of Holy Scripture
  • "Fight, pray, cry, lament"
  • A Sample of Repentance
  • "Rejoice, Bride not Bride!"
  • Filaret the Pious
  • A word for the memory of Alexis the Man of God
  • "God does not accept a drunkard"
  • "Great repentance!"
  • Orthodox miracle
  • Descriptor of the Spiritual Ladder
  • Word on Saturday of the 4th week of Great Lent
  • "Lord and Master of my life..."
  • Saint Nicholas of Japan
  • The Cross is the ladder to Heaven
  • Thoughts for the day of the forty martyrs
  • About cross-bearing (Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me...)
  • The Sacred Sign of Resurrection
  • "Surgeon-magician"
  • World
  • The lessons of Great Lent
  • Belief in the Intercession of Saints and the Theotokos
  • Parable of the Grandee and Ploughman
  • Prisoner of the Reval Fortress
  • Visits of God's mercy
  • About the feeling of hunger during fasting
  • "Here in the skete, I'm just a monk"
  • John the Forerunner
  • Theophilus
  • "My soul, my soul, rise up, what are you asleep?"
  • What is fasting? (For fasting is many times different...)
  • About the worship of holy icons
  • What is Orthodoxy?
  • By partaking of the Holy Mysteries
  • Fasting is a weapon of salvation
  • Patriarch Hermogenes
  • "Academy of missionary work"
  • "Prepare thy soul for temptation" (Sir. 2, 1)
  • "The fasting is come, the mother of chastity"
  • Teaching in the Cheesefare (Forgiveness) Sunday
  • The memory of a spiritual mentor
  • The word for memory of Venerable Demetrius of Prilutsk
  • The first Bishop of Irkutsk
  • The talk against intemperance
  • "The Son of man shall come in His glory" (Matt. 25, 31)
  • Teaching on Sunday of the Last Judgement
  • Memorial Saturday
  • Heavenly patron of Chernigov
  • The enlightener of Japan
  • Word on the Presentation of the Lord
  • Above the law
  • The mercy of the Lord to the truly penitent
  • "And He said, A certain man had two sons" (Lk. 15, 11)
  • Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-Bearer
  • "A brilliant gift of spiritual eloquence"
  • Modern pharisaism
  • In the memory of Metropolitan Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky)
  • "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees..." (Matt. 16, 6)
  • Word on Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee
  • Hell and paradise
  • Filaret the merciful
  • About the power of the spoken word
  • Good roots
  • About chains of sins and passions
  • What is perfection?
  • From their youth, dedicating themselves to God
  • God is known by faith and love
  • "Fair among saints and glorious among martyrs"
  • Holy master of the Solovetsky Islands
  • Remember the vows of Holy Baptism
  • The true God has revealed Himself to us
  • Let us prepare the way of the Lord
  • The school's Epiphany Monastery
  • Friend of All Saints
  • The secret of true happiness
  • Let Jesus' name be written in our hearts
  • Decoration of Church history
  • The organizer of the Russian Church
  • "Let human pride be ashamed"
  • God was manifest in the flesh
  • The cave, which became Heaven
  • In the Nativity of Christ there is all for us
  • Led by the one star
  • Founder of the new life
  • The first saint of Moscow
  • Holy teachers of Rus
  • Let us bring pure hearts
  • New Year fuss is a wrong way...
  • No Christianity without the Church
  • The combination of fasting with mercy and prayer
  • Mercy doors
  • About granting of passionate love for God
  • "Crazy"
  • From the last pages of the diary
  • Unexpected joy
  • Confession must be tender
  • Nilo-Stolobensky Monastery
  • "So fool..."
  • What habits are to be developed in the first place
  • Venerable Sabbas and a Frenchman
  • The principle of the tradition and the spirit of self-assertion
  • Collegiality
  • Apostle Andrew the First-Called
  • Hiding behind the name of Christianity
  • Hieromartyr Metropolitan Seraphim
  • Serafimo-Znamensky Skete
  • One flesh
  • How to behave after Communion
  • Without Baptism there is no salvation
  • Psalm 43
  • Peace of the soul (With the neighbours you have to deal gently, without making even a look of insult...)
  • Icon of Presentation in temple of the Most Holy Virgin
  • Prayer is a skill to focus
  • Christian!
  • The word at the funeral of Schema-archimandrite Vitaly (Sidorenko)
  • An example of obedience
  • "Let him deny himself" (Mk. 8, 34)
  • About how to test your conscience
  • In anticipation of the fast
  • "Golden" words
  • St. John the Merciful
  • Any obedience, executable for God, leads to paradise
  • To those who have married
  • Saint Nectarios of Aegina
  • Archangel Michael
  • A word against worldly gratification
  • On the irascible
  • The election to the Patriarchal throne
  • "My God, for all thank Thee..."
  • "Do not interfere with us"
  • The temptation to judge by appearances
  • About Sunday
  • Habits
  • St. Arseny I, Archbishop of Serbia
  • Be like candles
  • Venerable Nestor the Chronicler
  • About the persecution
  • We'll stand
  • How to endure insults
  • Prayer dispensation at the beginning of the day
  • Mediatrix diligent (Let us remember that the Mother of God "with haste", that is, with zeal, with diligence...)
  • "Escape for thy life; look not behind thee" (Gen. 19, 17)
  • Ordination to the priesthood
  • About halloween
  • Righteous Lazarus of the Four, the friend of God
  • Unusual pickpocket
  • Saint Athanasius the Confessor, Bishop of Kovrov
  • To make flesh not burden spirit
  • Gatekeeper
  • About the constant confession
  • Venerable Leo of Optina
  • Blessed Optina
  • The sin of idle talk
  • Remembrance of 12 year age
  • Communion in condemnation
  • About compliance with the Charter of the Church
  • Where does laziness come from?
  • The whole world is under the influence of some force
  • How to spend Sunday
  • Icon of the Protecting Veil of the Holy Virgin
  • Confession for obedience
  • The way of non-saving suffering
  • How a husband loves his wife
  • About that anyone should not lie
  • About love in the deed of education
  • St. Sergius of Radonezh is the personification of the Holy Rus
  • From the life of Reverend Nikandr of Pskov
  • About loyalty
  • Seek God
  • Lord Benjamin was able to inspire the entire service
  • Holy angels (Angels work closely with members of the human family...)
  • From the instructions of Rev. Alexis of Zosima
  • About last times
  • Four candles
  • I beseech you, be suns
  • Asylum
  • Icon of the Exaltation of the Lord's Cross
  • A gift to God from the king
  • Righteous Simeon of Verkhoturye
  • On the signs of grace and enticement
  • The righteous saints Joachim and Anna
  • The Mother of God is paradise
  • The soul of the elder
  • How a warrior of Christ should arrange himself for battle in the morning
  • The most important thing in a marriage
  • Fill all with meaning
  • Get up and pray
  • "Christians to the lions!"
  • Brief outline of Christian virtues
  • Let us keep conscience
  • Sad and joyful holiday
  • Not to forget
  • Nun Ambrose (Oberucheva)
  • "Stay among these droplets..."
  • About the relation to animals
  • Freely ye have received, freely give (Matt. 10, 8)
  • Humility is the mother of virtues
  • Venerable Martha of Diveevo
  • What is a clever man?
  • Reasoning about education
  • About the beauty of the world
  • Communication of Abba Hilarion with other saints
  • An example of zeal for worship
  • It is necessary to be at peace with all
  • Icon of the Dormition of the Theotokos
  • Confession must be decisive
  • Hypocrisy and servility
  • Vaccination against the spirit of the time
  • In August
  • Blessed Lawrence of Kaluga
  • Historical and cultural value of Solovki
  • To the 450th anniversary of the first transfer of the relics of St. Zosima and Savvatiy of Solovki
  • Childhood years of Elder Anthony
  • The icon of the Transfiguration of the Lord
  • Martyr Evdokia, Daria, Daria and Mary of Puzo
  • Rules for preparing for Holy Communion
  • The art of holiness
  • In defense of fasting
  • About three crosses
  • "The Kingdom of God is within you" (Lk. 17, 21) (A lot of finite goals cannot satisfy the infinite aspirations of the spirit...)
  • Rev. Anatoly of Optina, Junior
  • How mysterious Providence of God is
  • Hodegetria
  • Whether is it necessary to be treated?
  • Rev. Moses Ugrin of Caves
  • The strength and the fruit of Jesus Prayer
  • We do not see the mystery
  • "...And the invasion of Hagarites they reflect"
  • Main condition
  • Irresponsibility
  • Church of St. Elijah the Prophet in Obydenny side-street
  • About heavenly joy
  • Patience for salvation
  • Links in the spiritual chain
  • When everything is smooth, is it good?
  • Baptism of Russia
  • Ordinary life is only a prolonged death
  • Sorrow from pride
  • Three Hands
  • Princess Olga
  • Can I be saved?
  • Kolotsky Monastery and Icon
  • How to pray the Mother of God
  • The warning against pride
  • Spiritual shepherd
  • Conversion to Orthodoxy
  • Responsibilities to the sovereign's entity
  • Blessed John of Moscow
  • About the relation of one's neighbour
  • God does not abandon those who fear Him
  • The synaxis of the holy glorious and all-praised twelve Apostles
  • The first acquaintance with Elder Paisius
  • Candle burning
  • The daily routine of Elder Ambrose
  • From the teachings of Reverend Nikon of Optina
  • About the choice of spouse
  • Ivanovsky Convent in Moscow
  • Child's consciousness of sin
  • "We're living in the wrong..."
  • Matter needs to be transformed
  • About relation to the plants
  • Saint John of Shanghai
  • Being saved is not difficult, but wise
  • About fasting and repentance
  • From the Life of St. Moses of Optina
  • Three advices
  • Repletion of lean food
  • Prayer for the earthly rulers
  • The path to self-reproach
  • Abba Matoi said
  • How can we know God's will?
  • Be clean vessels
  • "He that humbleth himself shall be exalted" (Lk. 14, 11)
  • Abba Moses
  • Icon of the Holy Trinity
  • "My son, give me thine heart" (Prov. 23, 26)
  • Two bad cases and one good
  • Admonitions of Venerable Paisius of the Holy Mountain
  • About the opening of thoughts, brought by the enemy
  • Father John of Kronstadt
  • About despondency
  • If you want to restore order...
  • Abba Longinus said
  • St. Luke
  • Icon of the Ascension of the Lord
  • A twelve year old girl
  • Thoughts about immortality
  • About the fascination of theosophy
  • Advice of eighteen children's father
  • About the passion of anger
  • Repentance revives the soul
  • Nobleborn Prince Dovmont of Pskov
  • Let's protect our children
  • Abba Xoi
  • Cross feat of the mother of the Russian land
  • Facets of love
  • About prudence
  • About inappropriate silence
  • How to beat cowardice
  • The haste in reading of the prayer rule
  • The day of Slavic writing and culture
  • Do not judge by appearance
  • Elder Joseph of Optina
  • The apostle and theologian
  • What differs the Roman Catholic Cross from the Orthodox
  • Venerable Micah of Radonezh
  • About sins of drunkenness and tobacco smoking
  • How to gain peace of soul
  • We are responsible for all the misdeeds of our children
  • Example of the holy myrrh-bearers
  • About reading of the Scripture
  • St. Ignatius Brianchaninov
  • Precept of reverend Nektarios of Optina
  • We lived as "the birds of heaven"
  • An explanation about the commemoration of the departed
  • Military and spiritual victory
  • Peace be unto you...
  • Christ is Risen! (...Easter Reverend! Let's be enlightened now by celebration!...)
  • Conversation in the Bright Week
  • Easter for a child
  • Abba John (eunuch) said
  • Swallow
  • The icon "Descent into hell"
  • Day of Resurrection of Christ
  • Be silent, all flesh of man
  • Homily on Good Friday
  • On Holy Week
  • Holy Week is a precious time
  • Admonishing words on Passion Week
  • The knowledge of one's weakness
  • Icon of Entry into Jerusalem
  • Raising of Lazarus
  • An example of obedience
  • Promotion to patience and courage
  • Share the love equally
  • About the value of time
  • The last entries in the diary of hieromonk Basil (Roslyakov)
  • The Lord is always ready to help us
  • A word on the Praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • "God, God is coming!"
  • The internal fasting
  • In the silence there is humility
  • Words about confession
  • Butterfly-ephemera
  • Signs of necrosis of the soul
  • "We ask for the Christian end of our life..."
  • Abba John the Dwarf said
  • Listen to the silence
  • Abba Ischyrion
  • Icon of the Annunciation
  • If you are ashamed to cross yourself...
  • Abba Hyperechius said
  • Cross of the Lord is love
  • The blessed repose of the elder
  • Martyr Photina (Svetlana) the Samaritan Woman
  • About neglecting during the Great Lent
  • Isaac the Syrian said
  • Whether does the devil have power to do evil to people?
  • Source of courage
  • God's fool John
  • Abba John the Persian
  • How to come to repentance
  • About repentance what it is
  • The path to the contemplation of Divine light
  • Instructions of Elder Paisius
  • Abba Joseph said
  • Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
  • Kursk Icon of the Mother of God "The Sign"
  • You have to know your faith
  • With the bath of repentance
  • About amiable for all and evil ruler, the belly
  • Snetogorsky Monastery
  • Fasting and prayer
  • The Prayer of St. Ephraim the Syrian
  • Fasting is springtime for the soul
  • What is forgiveness?
  • God is merciful and good
  • To the rulers
  • Prayer of a layman
  • A perversion of the purpose of the cheese week (carnival)
  • Instructions of aged nun
  • Properties of the Last Judgement
  • About the desire of death and the memory of it
  • My conversion to Christ
  • Live candle
  • How to achieve peace of the soul
  • "To my dear brother on birthday!"
  • Lessons for the Bishop
  • The benefits of frequent instruction
  • The price paid for our own sins
  • Despondency (Gloom decided to spoil the mood of joyful people...)
  • A little about contribution of the Holy Fathers
  • From the Life of the Hieromartyr Blaise, bishop of Sebaste
  • Then there was repentance...
  • Rules of a godly life
  • Example of humility
  • What a joy it is to meet a man!
  • About warmth and coldness
  • What is to fill the day with?
  • About laziness and despondency
  • At the beginning of service in Japan
  • Icon of the Presentation of the Lord
  • Resist the enemy's suggestions and ideas
  • Compassion and sentimentality
  • Thoughts, written in a single verse
  • How to be determined to enter the Church
  • In whom love, he is...
  • Against those who are not present in the sacred assemblies
  • How to be an example for your children
  • Not in word but in deed
  • All of our meetings are not accidental
  • "My darling, forgive me..."
  • "Blessed are the pure in heart" (Matt. 5, 8)
  • The best Interlocutor
  • Censing
  • About the benefits of sorrows
  • About courage in Christ
  • Instructions about life in Christ
  • Short instructions and sayings of St. Ambrose of Optina about attitude towards yourself and others
  • Venerable Paul of Thebes
  • Minutes of solitude of a family woman
  • Humility is always beautiful
  • Exhortation to Christians
  • How to give advice to neighbours
  • About prayer (Prayer is security guard of chastity, good direction of irritability...)
  • Short instructions and sayings of St. Ambrose of Optina about the Christian virtues
  • A word about St. Gregory miracle worker
  • To put yourself in the place of another
  • Icon of the Baptism of the Lord
  • Do not resist evil by evil, do not return evil for evil
  • Drowsiness, the habit of wake up late in the morning
  • "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life" (Jn. 5, 39)
  • Praise of St. Basil the Great
  • Speak to God a lot, but to people few
  • On the dance floor...
  • Rev. Mark gravedigger
  • I thank You!
  • Non-fictitious story
  • Reflections
  • Homily for Christmas
  • Icon of the Nativity of Christ
  • A man strange for all
  • Homily on the new 1904 year
  • Wayfarer
  • Keeper of the human race
  • Natural order
  • Let us praise the Blessed Virgin Mary!
  • The life of the hermit John
  • The dew of the resurrection
  • The Queen of Heaven
  • Ask the Queen of Heaven!
  • Heavenly hierarchy
  • About intercession in the life, death and after the death
  • "Unexpected Joy"
  • Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Anna righteous
  • The treasure of St. Neil
  • About the origin of the Mother of God
  • "Do not balk the source to flow"
  • "Mount not Chopped by Hand"
  • A miracle over Gaianus
  • Patronage of Our Lady
  • Miraculous healings
  • Giving of the son
  • Icon of the Mother of God "The Sign"
  • Psalter of the Mother of God
  • Virginity of the Mother of God
  • Bring the children to Christ!
  • Homily on the Presentation of Mary
  • Presentation of Mary
  • The recollection of death is a preparation for eternal life
  • "In sorrows and griefs Consolation"
  • Mysterious statement of faith
  • Kupyatitskaya Icon of the Theotokos
  • You are the reservoir of all the gifts of grace
  • The prophecy of the Incarnation
  • Icon of the Mother of God "Merciful" (of Kykkos)
  • Refutation of the iconoclasts
  • Hail All-Blessed Quick to Hearken!
  • Admonition (...Once in a night before Sunday... Cosmiana wanted to worship... )
  • Icon of the Mother of God "Leaping of the Child"
  • Non-covetousness of the Mother of God
  • https://words-of-doom.livejournal.com/83052.html
  • Prayer for worthy Partaking of the Holy Mysteries
  • Peschanskaya Icon
  • Ozeryanskaya Icon of the Mother of God
  • Dew of mercy
  • Psalter of Our Lady. Psalm 143
  • Very fast Patroness
  • "Joy of all who sorrow"
  • Andronicus Icon
  • The celebration of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God
  • "Sing to Me, and I will never leave you"
  • Kazan Icon of the Mother of God
  • Heavenly protection
  • The icon of the Mother of God, called "Deliverer"
  • "Before Birth and after Birth the Virgin"
  • Cellular icon of elder Ambrose
  • Arrival of the Iveron Icon to Moscow
  • "Your songs are pleasant to Me..."
  • Gracious help of Our Lady
  • Mediation of the Mother of God
  • "Our joy and hope"
  • The Pskov-Pechersk Icon of the Mother of God "Tenderness"
  • To the Mother of God — about the gift of repentance
  • The liberation from the bonds
  • A wonderful gift
  • Intercession of the Theotokos
  • The vision of the monk Kyriakos
  • Patroness and praise of the land of Poltava
  • About the intercession of Our Lady
  • Icon of the Mother of God, named "At the source"
  • "I will never leave this place!"
  • Mirozh Icon
  • Slavonic Icon of the Mother of God
  • Irrigated Fleece
  • The tender dew
  • Glory to Thee, Lady!
  • About glorification of the name of Theotokos
  • The history of painting of the sacred image
  • "Look upon humility"
  • Novonikitskaya icon of the Mother of God
  • Courage and patience in sorrows
  • About the glory of the Mother of God
  • The voice of the Virgin
  • "Wisdom hath builded Her House..." (Prov. 9: 1).
  • Homily for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
  • Lesna icon of the Mother of God
  • Arapetskaya Icon of the Mother of God
  • About inner spiritual improvement
  • "Burning Bush"
  • Pisidia Icon of the Mother of God
  • Kaluga Icon of the Mother of God
  • Chernigov-Gethsemane Icon
  • Placing of the venerable belt of the Theotokos
  • The August Icon
  • The revelation of the Holy Virgin
  • Vladimir Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • Honour all the saints, but especially the Mother of God!
  • The emergence of the Photographic image of Our Lady
  • Donskaya icon of the Mother of God
  • "Holy Queen"
  • Port Arthur Icon of the Mother of God
  • Narva Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • Eulogy to the Assumption of the Virgin
  • "Passionate" Icon of the Mother of God
  • Tomb of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • Gethsemane
  • The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • The Tolga Icon of the Mother of God
  • The blessing of the Queen of Heaven
  • From the writings of elder Silouan about the Mother of God
  • A prayer ("O Most Gracious Lady, Queen of Heaven, the Most Pure Theotokos!")
  • "Rejoice, the Village of God and the Word!"
  • The fast in honour of the Mother of God
  • Festival of the all-Merciful Saviour and the most Holy Mother of God
  • "I leave you to the Lord and His most Pure Mother"
  • Exclusionary icon of Father Seraphim
  • Yuga Icon
  • Guide
  • The Humility of the Mother of God
  • To the Theotokos
  • Salvation of Pochaev from the Turks
  • The first appearance of the Virgin in Pochaev
  • Abalatskaya icon of the Mother of God
  • Chukhloma (Galich) Icon of the Virgin
  • Appearance of Our Lady to St. Seraphim of Sarov
  • Svyatogorskaya Icon of the Mother of God
  • Recovery from the plague
  • Scriptures of Elder Silouan. About the Mother of God
  • "O daughter all-holy, decoration of wives!"
  • "The Theotokos and Mother of Light, let us extol in songs" (exclamation at Matins)
  • The gift of the Virgin
  • Kolochskaya icon of the Mother of God
  • Precious treasure
  • Blachernae shrines
  • Miracle!
  • Good House-Keeper
  • Provisions of robe of the Theotokos in Blachernae
  • Akhtyrskaya icon of the Virgin
  • About the cleansing of the passions and inner good intention
  • Balykinskaya icon of the Mother of God
  • "Three Hands"
  • About talents
  • "The rod of the root of Jesse"
  • A long way
  • "For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power." (1 Cor. 4, 20)
  • Standing on the Ugra River
  • The salvation of Vladimir from the plague
  • A prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • Modena Icon of the Mother of God
  • God-loving Queen
  • About the gratification of Our Lady
  • Under the omophorion of the Mother of God
  • "Protection and Mediatrix of the infirm"
  • Appearance of Our Lady to the Reverend Peter
  • From Athos to Konevets
  • "It is truly meet..."
  • The dream of saint
  • Go to Beloozero
  • Uryupinsk Icon of the Mother of God
  • The Poemen Icon of the Mother of God
  • Cellular icon of Prince Igor
  • A blessing
  • A prayer ("O All-Hymned Mistress, Lady, Virgin Theotokos, Mary!")
  • Pray to the Mother of God!
  • Tabyn Icon
  • "Mediatrix of the world, Surety of sinners!"
  • "Thy womb was Holy Table"
  • Whom will I resort to in my sorrow, if not to You, the Queen of Heaven?
  • About imitation of virtues of Our Lady
  • The Salvation of Moscow
  • Tupichevskaya Icon of the Mother of God
  • The miracle of the Virgin
  • Revered icon of Russia
  • Putivl Icon
  • Tsarevokokshaisk Icon of the Mother of God
  • This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened (Ezek. 44, 2)
  • The blessing of the Pochaev mountain
  • Orthodox veneration of the Mother of God
  • Tsargrad icon of the Mother of God
  • Molchenskaya icon of the Mother of God
  • To teacher, about the apparition of the Mother of God
  • Under the blessed omophorion
  • The dew of healing
  • Belynichi icon of the Theotokos
  • Murom Icon of the Mother of God
  • About the veneration of Our Lady in days of Her earthly life
  • "The fire of the Godhead has not burned Your womb"
  • About the miraculous apparitions of the Virgin
  • Life-giving Spring
  • Icon of the Mother of God "Sweet Kiss"
  • Bachkovo icon of the Mother of God
  • Virgin and Mother
  • "Today there is beginning of our salvation ..."
  • Broken commandment
  • Preimages and comparisons
  • Praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • Prayer from the service in honour of the Theodore Icon of the Mother of God
  • Lydda icon of the Theotokos
  • "The Word became flesh"
  • Protectress of the Russian diaspora
  • "I am Surety of sinners"
  • "Blessed Heaven"
  • "I entrust my child to Thy heavenly protection"
  • Under the Protection of the Virgin
  • "Reigning"
  • What does it mean to feel sinful?
  • Vision of Reverend Erasmus of Caves
  • "Be the Trustees of the needs of Gregory and his brethren"
  • Kiev Annunciation
  • Kozelschanskaya icon of the Theotokos
  • Rejoice, Ladder of high, which Jacob saw
  • Miracle of the icon of the Dormition of Our Lady
  • From the heritage of the Byzantine Empire
  • The Cyprian Icon of the Mother of God
  • Priest-Confessor Vladimir Hirasko
  • Panagia Portaitissa, Iveron Icon of the Mother of God
  • Restoration of the veneration of holy icons
  • Icon of the Mother of God "Looking like fire"
  • Prayers to the Mother of God
  • The Sicilian, or the Divnogorskaya, icon of the Mother of God
  • The image blessed Matrona prayed for
  • Eletsky-Chernigov Icon of the Mother of God
  • "Recovery of the perished"
  • About the fear of God and the wisdom
  • About pernicious sinful habits and how to combat them
  • The habit of living in debt
  • The habit of watching TV timeless, of computer games
  • The habit of swearing
  • The habit of bodily rest (fear of sorrows)
  • The habit of vice, immorality
  • The smoking habit
  • The habit of excessive consumption of alcohol (alcoholism)
  • The habit to judge others (excuse yourself)
  • The habit of disobedience, inclination to dispute Schema-monk's Cross

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