• 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
  • Сarefully 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
  • 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
  • "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
  • 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
  • "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
  • 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
  • Repentance is omnipotent
  • "Accept the firm intention to do everything for the Lord God"
  • About repentance
  • 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
  • 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
  • "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 Prylukу
  • 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
  • Adolescence
  • Continuation of earthly life
  • "Is it not all the same?"
  • About the peace of Christ
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Never lose heart and never inspire gloom to others
  • Self-justification
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Мiraculous 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Repose of the Blessed Princess Olga
  • A medicine against hatred
  • Conscience
  • 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
  • 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!"
  • "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
  • 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?
  • 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
  • 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
  • "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
  • 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)
  • 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!
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Сellular 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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