3:1 - Our royal priesthood
The third section: Our ecclesiastical life: “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation” (1 Peter 2:9). Perhaps one of the most important topics […]
Essential characteristics of the Orthodox Church
The idea that the Orthodox Church adheres to the principles and piety of the ancient, universal, indivisible Church is the central principle of this Church.
Chapter Fifteen - The position of the laity in the Church
The Christian is a priest in body and in his entire being. He is called to offer himself and all his actions as a sacrifice to God, along with all of creation. The Christian's personal life becomes a witness to God's presence and work within him, so that anyone who observes his way of life concludes that Christ lives in him, and that he is not an ordinary person, but a citizen of the Kingdom of God. In this way, his actions and his entire life become a continuous divine service, regaining the original meaning they held in God's Paradise.
Mikhail Sheltsov, the new Russian martyr
One of the greatest tragedies during the horrific persecutions that were launched against the Church after the control of the atheist authorities was the general trial, in 1922, of the Metropolitan.
Leonid Startz Saint
Lev Nagolkine was born in 1767 into a bourgeois family in the Russian province of Orel. He worked in
Individual worship and group worship
Introduction In two different places in the Gospel of Matthew, two phrases about prayer appear that seem to contradict each other. In the Sermon on the Mount
Irene from Chrisophlando
Saint Irene (Salam), whose biography we will now recount, is not the great Saint Irene among the martyrs, who was born in the century