Tag: Christianity

Priest Alexander Paramonov, a guest of Sretensky monastery, resides and serves in an Australian town called Gold Coast. He answered our questions regarding his life… Read More

St. Alphonsus (also known as Alonso) was born in Spain in 1532. He married when he was 26, and worked as a cloth merchant. After… Read More

Washington, D.C., October 30, 2023 Photo: robertamsterdam.com      Robert Amsterdam, whose law firm AMSTERDAM & PARTNERS LLP is offering pro bono defense to the canonical… Read More

Call this the most overdue book report in recorded history. “The Master and Margarita” (Penguin Classics, $19) sounds like something spawned from the imaginations of… Read More

Nea Krini, Thessaloniki, October 30, 2023 Photo: orthodoxianewsagency.gr      A chapel in honor of the recently canonized St. Joseph the Hesychast was consecrated in Thessaloniki… Read More

St. Abraham Kidunaia was born in the third century. His parents were very wealthy, and ensured that their son was well-educated. After he finished school,… Read More

Photo: sevosetia.ru      The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke. (8:5-15) Today we hear the familiar The Parable of the SowerWhoever desires… Read More

On October 21, 2016, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church canonized Chosen By God: Life of Abbess Arsenia of Ust-MedveditsThe amazing purity of… Read More

Holy Confessor Bishop Ambrose (before monasticism, Alexander Alexeyevich Polyansky) was born on November 12, 1878, in the village of Petelino, Elatma County, Tambov Province, to… Read More

St. Jude, known as Thaddaeus, was a brother of St. James the Lesser and a relative of Jesus. According to ancient writings, he preached the… Read More