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Month: June 2012

Modern Orthodox Saints and Holy Fathers & Mothers : St. Hilarion, Archbishop of Verey

Modern Orthodox Saints and Holy Fathers & Mothers : St. Hilarion, Archbishop of Verey

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The Life of New  Hieromartyr Hilarion (Troitsky), Archbishop of Verey Commemorated on December 15 / 28 (date of his martyric repose) and on April 27 / May 10 (date of his glorification)             On December 15/28, 2011 an historically significant event happened here in our God-preserved town of Wayne, West Virginia at the Hermitage of the Holy Cross.  For the first time ever, the services for St. Hilarion, Archbishop of Verey were celebrated in English.  Up to this time the services were…

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The Obnora Road

The Obnora Road

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Excellent article from pravoslavie.ru… The Obnora Road. A Historical EssayOld Russian monasticism was a clear manifestation of the morality of Russian secular society: the yearning for departure from the secular world was growing along with the rise of moral standards and not because of increasing calamities. It means that Russian monasticism was renouncing the world for the sake of ideals too high for it, and not for the sake of principles hostile to it. —V. Klyuchevsky

Homily on the Sunday of All Saints of Russia

Homily on the Sunday of All Saints of Russia

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In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Congratulations, Brothers and Sisters, on the feast of All Saints of Russia, on which we commemorate all those saints who have shone forth in the Russian land. We know from sacred history that Russia was not always a land united in its love for God and for the Holy Orthodox Church.  Ancient Russia was a pagan land, devoid of the light of the Gospel.  It…

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Modern Orthodox Saints and Holy Fathers & Mothers: Ivan Michailovich Kontzevitch

Modern Orthodox Saints and Holy Fathers & Mothers: Ivan Michailovich Kontzevitch

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     Ivan Michailovich Kontzevitch was born in 1893 in Poltava, Ukraine. He was the eldest of five children. His father, Michael Ivanovich, graduated from the Department of Natural Sciences in Warsaw University and became a tax inspector. Ivan’s mother, Alexandra Ivanovna Lisenevskaya was a Carpatho-Russian and the daughter of a judge. Alexandra finished secondary school and then married at a young age. She is described as a “born teacher” and she knew how to bring up her children without…

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Sermon on Holy Pentecost by St John of San Francisco

Sermon on Holy Pentecost by St John of San Francisco

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Source: fatheralexander.org God is a holy Trinity. A Trinity consubstantial and indivisible. Consubstantial, that is, one essence, one nature. A Trinity indivisible: the Son has never been divided from the Father, nor the Holy Spirit from the Father or the Son, and never will be divided. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not three gods, but one God, since They have one nature. But not only because of this. People also have one nature, one essence. But with people…

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