Sermon on the Feast of Memory of Saint Great Martyr Barbara (St. Barbara’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Edmonton, December 17, 2015). In the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Dear brothers and sisters: Our Church calls Saint Barbara of Heliopolis “the Beautiful” (The Akathist hymn for Saint Barbara). For us, Christians, she […]

The Meaning of Faith in Christ (A Saving Faith) — prof Alexei Osipov. Translated by archpriest Yevgeny Protsenko, rector of Peter and Paul Church in Regina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlurcQeKLRs&feature=youtu.be . This is a fragment of prof. Osipov’s lecture “A saving faith” (in Russian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POocS… Alexei Ilych Osipov was born in 1938, in the town of Belev, Tula […]

The prayer of an Orthodox wife about a husband, still not belonging to the Church. O, Lord, Our God, Thou, Who in Paradise had blessed our forefather Adam and his wife Eve! I pray Thee, bless my spouse and me, [and our children, names, if any] with perfect love and constant agreement in our Faith […]

THREE CHARACTERISTICS OF SAINT DEMETRIUS In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit: Dear brothers and sisters: The Great Martyr Demetrius the Myrrh-gusher of Thessalonica had three great traits which distinguished him from other saints, just as the aroma of one flower distinguishes it from another flower. First — The […]