Wednesday, December 31, 2025

You Cannot Trust Yourself either During Peace or During Temptations

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Venerable Isaac the Syrian of Nineveh. "Spiritual Alphabet". Venerable Isaac the Syrian (~ VI - VIII cent.) Distrust. In...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

A Priest was Suspended for Excessive Asceticism

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From the memoirs of Hegumen Nikon (Vorobyov). Hegumen Nikon (Vorobyov) (1894 - 7.9.1963) “I began serving as a priest, and the bette...
Thursday, December 25, 2025

One shouldn't Choose a Priest as a Spiritual Father, if he Disobeys or Strongly Criticizes his Superiors

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Bishop Kirill (Zinkovsky) Question to the bishop. Bishop Kirill (Zinkovsky), Sergiev Posad. From the answer to the question "How ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Bishop on Daily Communion

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  Metropolitan Longin of Saratov and Volsk Question to the Bishop. Dear Vladyka! I ask for clarification on how to properly prepare f...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

Father Dimitry on how to Get Rid of Vanity

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Russian Hour with Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov (October 3, 2005). Radio Radonezh. Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov (1951 - 21.10.2020) Listen...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

The Girl Did Not Listen to the Elder Not To Get Married, and Her Husband Killed Her

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Saint elder Sebastian of Karaganda (1884 – 19.4.1966) Alexey Fomin. "Holy Seers. The Gift of Clairvoyance". Elder Sebastian of...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Fear of the First Confession After a Dissolute Lifestyle

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Question to a Priest. SPAS TV, September 17, 2024 Archpriest Alexander Nikolsky Archpriest Alexander Nikolsky is in the studio. View...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

At the Sight of the Terrible Demon, the Elder Continued His Prayer Rule

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Hegumen Philaret (Danilevsky) (1777 - 1841) Lives of Russian Ascetics of Piety of the 18th-19th centuries. March. Hegumen Philaret fr...
Monday, December 1, 2025

How to Avoid Moralizing when Giving Instructions

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St. Theophan the Recluse (1815 - 1894) Apophthegmata Partum as translated by St. Theophan the Recluse. 139. The elder said: when you gi...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

It is Impossible to Love your Enemies without God's Grace

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Saint Silouan the Athonite (1866 - 24.9.1938) Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov). "Saint Silouan the Athonite". When the sou...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Is It Possible To Be Admonished by God During Prayer?

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Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov (1951 - 21.10.2020) Question on air of Radio "Radonezh" to Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov on March 28,...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

The Elder did not Allow those who Fasted without Permission to Receive Communion

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Saint elder Sevastian of Karaganda (1884 – 19.4.1966) Maxim Yanyshevsky. "Characteristics of Religious Life in Soviet Kazakhstan in...
Friday, October 17, 2025

On the Harm of "General Confession"

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Archpriest Vladimir Vorobyov. Archpriest Vladimir Vorobyov So what to do then? How to confess everyone? And all the people are unkno...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Saint Macarius the Great Did Not Believe Himself Even After Death

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From the life of Saint Macarius the Great. Saint Macarius the Great (300 - 390) Serapion, the writer of the life of the Saint, adds the...
Monday, October 6, 2025

Should Complete Obedience Be Only in Relation to the Elder?

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From an interview with Archpriest Vladimir Volgin Archpriest Vladimir Volgin – Father Vladimir, in your opinion, should we have impe...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

Saint Sergius Drove Away a Demon That Came to a Woman in the Guise of Her Husband

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Saint Anthony of Radonezh. "Letters from the Monastery". Saint Anthony of Radonezh (1808 - 1873) March 20, 1851 <...>...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Elder Silouan about the Signs of Grace and Delusion

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Archimandrite Sophrony (Sakharov). "Saint Silouan, the Athonite". Saint Silouan the Athonite (1866 - 24.9.1938) In our desire...
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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Schema-Archimandrite Michael (Krechetov) (1937 - 14.11.2025) From a conversation with the elder Archpriest Valerian Krechetov (Schema-Arc...

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...