Knowing yourself is the basis of spiritual life. However, seeing your sins is not so easy. And it can be even more difficult to discern in oneself what gives...

It was from me - this soulful voice of God was revealed to a soul intensely seeking the will of God in every moment of its life. Even in the period of precio...

Ordeal is the inevitable path of the human soul, which it makes during the transition from earthly life to Eternal Life. During the ordeals, the soul, in the...

Once a famous Moscow priest was asked how our confession in church is accepted by God? The priest replied that confession is accepted by the priest, not God....

The Holy Hieromartyrs Cyprian and Justina lived in the 3rd century in Antioch. Saint Justina, through faith and trust in the power of God, defeated the most ...

Christianity is a religion of joy, but that joy to which there is only one path - through Golgotha, the joy that is born in the heart from co-crucifixion wit...

The Lord’s mercy towards us sinners is indescribable. And yet, despite his great love for people, Jesus Christ is a strict Judge of our thoughts and deeds. S...

Lev Aleksandrovich Tikhomirov is one of the outstanding representatives of Russian thought, whose name was unfairly excluded from its annals for many years. ...

The church candle is a symbol of our spiritual union with the Church. Candles are a sign of voluntary sacrifice to God and His temple, an expression of a per...

The book briefly outlines the important teaching of the great holy father of the Orthodox Church, St. Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) about the difference betwee...

The Divine Liturgy is the main service during which the sacrament of the Church is celebrated: the sacrament of Communion, or the Eucharist. The first liturg...

Man, as a created being, was separated from the uncreated God by two barriers: natural difference, and after the Fall also by sin. The Son of God, the Lord J...