Monday, May 19, 2025

If You Teach, Then Don’t Say That It Is From Your Own Experience

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Hegumen Nikon (Vorobiev) (1894 - 7.9.1963) Hegumen Nikon (Vorobiev). "Unpublished letters". Don’t lecture anyone, and if you ...

The Elder, Out of Love, Took Upon Himself the Infirmities of Those Who Came

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Elder Mikhail (Pitkevitch) (1877-1962) From the book "By the God-Created Caves”, from the story about Elder Mikhail (Pitkevich). ...
Friday, May 16, 2025

Don’t Be Too Right

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Archimandrite Seraphim (Krechetov) From a conversation with the elder Archpriest Valerian Krechetov (now Archimandrite Seraphim). When ...

What Is the Difference Between a Layman and a Monk in Terms of Obedience?

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Bishop Methodius (Kondratiev) Bishop Methodius (Kondratiev) of Kamensk and Kamyshlov. What is the difference between a layman and a mo...
Sunday, May 11, 2025

If Left Unchecked, People Will Receive Communion Several Times a Day

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Archpriest Vladimir Vorobyov. Archpriest Vladimir Vorobyov It must be said that in the East, in Greece and other Balkan countries, Con...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

The Spiritual Father and Visions

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Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov). "On Prayer". Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov) (1896- 11.7.1993) When a spiritual father...

False Orthodox "Healer" Offered Sodomy

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Hieromonk Anatoly (Berestov). "Orthodox sorcerers" – who are they?" Hieromonk Anatoly (Berestov) What spiritual trouble a...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

The Girl Fell into Fornication and Became Ashamed to Confess

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Priest Mikhail Vorobyov Question to the priest. I am 19 years old. I go to the church weekly, sing on the kliros and love everything...

How to Preach about Christ without Sounding Sectarian

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Questions to Archimandrite Raphael (Karelin). Archimandrite Raphael (Karelin) [01/29/2006] Andrey asks: Fr. Raphael! How should an O...

If You Feel Ready for Communion, It Is Better To Abstain

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Archimandrite Seraphim (Krechetov) Archimandrite Seraphim (Krechetov), spiritual father of the diocese. I was honored to know Fr. Vsevo...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

What is an Assurance at the Prayer

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Metropolitan Nektarios (Antonopoulos). ‘The Holy Mount which I have known a little and loved so much’ Elder Ephraim of Katounakia (1912 –...

Patriarch Kirill Took on Someone Else's Pain as a Child

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From “The Happiest Easter of My Life.” documentary, TV Spas, 04/16/2023. Patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev) Patriarch Kirill: Dad served...

On the Desire to Develop Supernatural Gifts in oneself

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Question to the priest. Hegumen Nektary (Morozov) Why does the church not welcome the presence and development of paranormal ...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Difference between True and False Compunction

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Saints Barsanuphius the Great and John the Prophet. "Letters".   St Barsanuphius the Great (6th cent.) LETTER 394 Question ...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Love for Enemies is a Sign of Purity of Heart

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Archimandrite Raphael (Karelin) Archimandrite Rafail (Karelin). "On the Way from Time to Eternity." They asked Schema-Archima...

The Woman Began to Read Exorcism Prayers

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Hegumen Daniel (Gridchenko) Question to the priest. October 19, 2018 Asks: Elena City: Moscow Question about my mother. We all (her r...

The Dying Woman Came to Her Senses to Confess and Take Communion

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Archpriest Vasily Borin (1916 - 27.12.1994) From the biography of Archpriest Vasily Borin. One of the parishioners of the church o...

Simply Speaking without being Asked will not Always be Helpful

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Bishop Alexy (Polikarpov) From the article by Archimandrite Alexy (Polikarpov) “Confession. Answers to questions from parishioners....
Friday, December 6, 2024

Woman Considered herself a Healer

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Question to Hegumen Daniel (Gridchenko). Hegumen Daniel (Gridchenko) Question: Irina City: Syktyvkar Dec 21, 2020 Hello Father, afte...

Elder Savva about Discretion

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Schema-Hegumen Savva (Ostapenko) (1898 - 27.7.1980) From the Life of the Elder Schema-Hegumen Savva (Ostapenko). About Discretion. Disc...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

What does the Expression that only God Cures the Proud Mean?

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Schema-archimandrite Abraham (Reidman) Question to Schema-Archimandrite Abraham (Reidman). Conversation at the St Ignatius’ Skete of th...

Vanity Destroys Even Good Deeds

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Saint Macarius of Optina (1788-1860) Venerable Macarius of Optina. "Edifying Teachings" (from letters). ... I only think it n...
Sunday, September 1, 2024

The Monk Concealed his Love for Money

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Biographies of the Ascetics of Athos. Hegumen Fr. Gerasim, a Bulgarian († 1875). Gerasimos of Athos (1770 - 1875) Something like th...

Hymn of Love of Apostle Paul

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1st epistle of Apostle Paul to Corinthians. Ch. 13. Apostle Paul (I cent.) Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, bu...
Friday, June 28, 2024

It is not Good to Start Speaking before Question

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Sts. Barsanuphius the Great and John the Prophet. "Letters".   St Barsanuphius the Great (6th cent.) LETTER 697 Question: “If...
Thursday, June 27, 2024

False Theological Thoughts from Demons

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St. Theophan the Recluse (1815 - 1894) Apophthegmata Patrum as Translated by St. Theophan the Recluse. 284. The elder said: if a saying...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

How do Saints Tell the Will of God?

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Protopriest Konstantin Rovinsky. "Old priest’s conversations with his spiritual children". Protopriest Konstantin Rovinsky (186...

A Woman Heals with Prayers

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Question to a Priest on the website of the New Jerusalem Monastery. Hegumen Daniel (Gridchenko) March 7, 2013 Question: Natalia, Moscow...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

The Elder Convicted a Woman Who Caused a Whole Village to Burn Down

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"By the God-created caves." Pskov-Caves ascetics of the 20th century. " St. Simeon (Zhelnin) (1869 - 18.1.1960) Th...
Thursday, June 6, 2024

The Snares of the Devil have Increased Enormously

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St Ignatius (Brianchaninov). "On prelest". On the Snares of the Prince of This World. St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) (1807-1867) ...

Patriarch Alexy Really Sacrificed himself and Died for the Church

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Patriarch Alexy II (23.2.1929 - 5.12.2008) From the "Islands. Alexy II" documentary film (2009). The schism was supposed to...
Friday, May 3, 2024

Even before his Death, the Elder Continued to Resist Vanity

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St. Theophan the Recluse (1815 - 1894) Apophthegmata Patrum, as translated by St. Theophan the Recluse. Ch. 11. 110. Satan appeared ...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

He who Truly Believes Will Certainly Have Works

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Venerable Seraphim of Sarov. "Spiritual Instructions to Monks and Laity". St Seraphim of Sarov (1754 - 1833) First of all...

Confusion is the Sign of Devil’s Presence

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Extracts from the Life of Elder Ignatius the Blind, the Athonite (1827-7.11.1927). Elder Ignatius the Blind, the Athonite (1827 - 7.11.1...

The Woman did not Want to Admit and Repent that She Used to Steal While Working in Trade

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"I love everybody". Memories of Archimandrite Pavel (Gruzdev). Archimandrite Pavel (Gruzdev) (1910 - 13.1.1996) In 1985, I ...

The Young Priest Began to Cast out Demons

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From an interview with Metropolitan Nifont of Volyn and Lutsk. Metropolitan Nifont (1948 - 22.03.2017) There was a young priest who,...
Monday, March 25, 2024

How to Tell if a Monk or a Priest Has the Gift of Healing

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Hegumen Daniel (Gridchenko) Questions to a priest. Question: Anastasia Hello. Bless me, Father. They say that epilepsy is treated only...

The Remedy for Vanity is not to Be the First to Speak

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St. Theophan the Recluse (1815 - 1894) Apophthegmata Patrum, as translated by St. Theophan the Recluse. 298. A brother came to an elde...

Where any Pride is, no Divine Visions Can Appear

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Archimandrite Seraphim (Aleksiev). "Homily about self-esteem and about false visions". Archimandrite Seraphim (Aleksiev) (1912-...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Headaches because of Unconfessed Sin

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Elder Paisios the Athonite. "Words". Vol. 3. Elder Paisios of the Holy Mountain (1924 – 12.7.1994) One time, a middle-aged ...
Friday, October 6, 2023

Love Manifested itself in the Desire to Take on the Illness of Another Person

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Hegumen Daniel (Gridchenko) Question to the priest. March 23, 2016. Question: Tatiana, from Naberezhnye Chelny town Good afternoon, f...