Don’t set any store by your thoughts, whether they tell you’re terrible, or when they tell you that you’re a saint. Just live simply, without overthinking, like a child with its father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical mind hinders the Grace of God and miracles. Practice patience without judging with the…

Sweden is visited by one of the leading lights of the Christian world: the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, head of the second-largest Church community in the world: the Eastern Orthodox Church. His constant work for the wellbeing of the creation, the environment and the climate has resulted in him being known as the…

On the Apodosis of the Nativity of the Most-Holy Mother of God, September 25, 2019, the traditional procession of the cross was held with the Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God “of the Sign,” starting at Kursk-Root Hermitage and ending at Znamensky Monastery in Kursk, Russia. After many years of “wandering” throughout the world,…

On September 25, 2019, Interfax-Kazakhstan held a press conference with His Eminence Metropolitan Alexander of Astanai and Kazakhstan, the head of the Kazakhstan Metropoliate of the Russian Orthodox Church, on the forthcoming visit of the Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God “of the Sign.” Before the conference began, a film by Semirechiye Productions titled…

Dusan Kozarev, Deputy-Director in the Office for Kosovo and Metohija of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, gave this report to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). The information he gives about the persecution of Orthodox Christian Serbs in their ancestral homeland is deeply disturbing. But whether his report will move…

On Friday, 27th of September 2019, Metropolitan Vladimir celebrated the Divine Liturgy on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy and Life-Giving Cross in the Nativity of the Lord Cathedral in Chisinau. The arch-pastor was assisted at the service by archpriest Vadim Cheibas, Cathedral Dean and Metropolitan Secretary, and the synaxis of priests and…

All Local Churches believe that pan-Orthodox discussion is the only right way to resolve the Ukrainian problem, Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanich) reminded. The UOC Chancellor, Metropolitan Anthony of Borispol and Brovary, in an interview with the “Newsone” TV channel, spoke about the prospects of the pan-Orthodox meeting of the Local Orthodox Churches in a situation where none of them…

The Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, thanks the President for shedding light on this issue. We pray that this initiative will result in genuine action by not just the United States, but other nations all over the world, to save their persecuted Christian populations. For too long the persecution…

The first meeting of the Preconciliar Commission, tasked with organizing the 20th All-American Council [AAC] in Baltimore, MD July 26-30, 2021, was held at the Hilton Baltimore, the site of the council, on Monday, September 23, 2019. His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, chaired the meeting.  Participants included Archpriest Alexander Rentel, OCA Chancellor; Archpriest Theodore Boback, Local…