The Orthodox Pilgrim – Issue no. 3 / Great Lent 2026

 … and his meaning for Orthodox slavdom   The following lecture was given in Belgrade at a solemn gathering in memory of His Beatitude Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky), the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, by the renowned Serbian theologian Archimandrite Dr. Justin Popovich, at that time professor of dogmatic theology at the Theological Faculty of Belgrade University.

“It is the Day of Resurrection, let us be radiant O ye people; Pa...

Report to the Synod of Bishops, 1952      

Only if the sky can forego its stars, earth its grass, honeycombs their honey, streams their water, and breasts their milk will our tongues be able to renounce their praise of the saints, in whom God is the strength of life and the fame of death. St. Paulinus of Nola, Poem 19 (405 A.D.)

The Baptismal Rite

In a time when under the name of Christianity, even Orthodox Christianity, every kind of compromise and surrogate is offered men whose spiritual hunger can be satisfied only by uncompromising Truth, the spiritual shepherds have become few who speak straightforwardly the saving word.

Concerning the teachings of the Church, whether publicly proclaimed (kerygma) or reserved to members of the household of faith (dogmata), we have received some from written sources, while others have been given to us secretly, through apostolic tradition.

  I humbly dedicate this present to the unity of Orthodoxy, out of gratitude.   No one can deny the fact that the universal Orthodox Church is currently in a state of divisive crisis, due to the Ukrainian Ecclesiastical Question, which was created by the arbitrary and uncanonical granting of “Autocephaly” by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to schismatic structures of the Ukrainian Church, and in ignorance of the Orthodox Russian Patriarchate, which is the mother Church of the Orthodox Ecclesiastical eparchy of Ukraine.

Sermons to young people by Father George Calciu-Dumitreasa. Given at the Chapel of the Romanian Orthodox Church Seminary, Bucharest FIFTH MEDITATION April 5, 1980   Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchisadec. Hebrews 5 6 [1]   Perhaps you have been asking yourself, my young friend, why I have even been addressing you, and by what authority?

The decision to call an All-Russian Sobor had been taken by Emperor Nicholas II after the Revolution of 1905–6. Serious preparatory work was accomplished. The question of the restoration of the Patriarchate seemed to become the central subject of the Sobor.

After the decision to restore the Patriarchate, the most important act of the Sobor was the election of the man to fill that office. In the midst of the three days battle which resulted in the taking of Moscow by the Bolsheviks, the Sobor in orderly sittings carried out the routine it had defined for the election of a Patriarch.    

Concerning the Life of St. John Chrysostom (1921). English translation. 

The author of this testimony, a new martyr of the Communist Yoke, enjoyed a brilliant worldly career as a naval commander, being also deeply involved in occultism as editor of the occult journal Rebus.

As an answer to the question of the possibility of a “dialogue” of Orthodox Christianity with the various non-Christian religions, the reader has been presented the testimony of three Orthodox Christians who confirm, on the basis of Orthodox doctrine and their own experience, what the Orthodox Church has always taught: that Orthodox Christians do not at all have the “same God” as the so-called “monotheists” who deny the Holy Trinity; that the gods of the pagans are in fact demons; and that the experiences and powers which the pagan “gods” can and do provide…

The twentieth century, which began with the presumption of imagining itself the most enlightened of all ages, has in reality proceeded through some of the blackest years of all human history. Symptomatic of this truly dark age is the revival in recent decades of interest and active participation in witchcraft and sorcery.    

In the reign of Decius (249–251) there lived in Antioch (of Pisidia) a certain philosopher and renowned sorcerer whose name was Cyprian, a native of Carthage.

Recently at a symposium[1] held at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, I had the opportunity to become better aware of a significant new approach, primarily on the part of Roman Catholics, to the relationship between Christianity and Judaism.

Holy, great, salutary for the soul is the labor of prayer. It is the chief and the first among monastic labors. All other labors are labors that serve this labor; they are undertaken only so that the labor of prayer might be carried out more successfully, so that the fruits of prayer would be more abundant.

I love to pray in God’s temple, especially within the holy altar, before the Holy Table or the Prothesis, for by God’s grace I became wonderfully changed in the temple. During the prayer of repentance and devotion the thorns, the bonds of the passions, fall from my soul, and I feel so light; all the spell, all the enticement of the passions vanish, and I seem to die to the world, and the world, with all its blessings, dies for me, I live in God and for God, for God alone.    

VI. Prayer in common   * Live with your heart the words of the Saviour’s prayer to His Father: “As Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be one in Us” [1], and strive by every means to become united to God yourself, and to unite others to Him. Maintain by every means mutual, pious union, not sparing either yourself or anything belonging to you, for the sake of maintaining the union of love. For God is our almighty Lifegiver, and the all-merciful Giver of all things. He will support our life in…

—If I have understood correctly, salvation is attained mostly through asceticism, watchfulness[1] and the Jesus prayer. Allow me however a question. I make it not because I agree with it but because I hear many objections about the Jesus prayer.

According to tradition the Korsun icon is from the hand of the first iconographer, St. Luke the Evangelist, who also painted other great wonderworking icons of the Mother of God: for example, those of Vladimir, Don, Tikhvin, the Passion.

The christians are the saviours of the city; they are its guardians, its patrons, and its teachers

The soul of the priest ought to gleam with beauty on every side

I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? St. Luke 12 :49   Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, With God’s help, we present you the first issue of The Orthodox Pilgrim, a periodical dedicated to the Orthodox Faith. Inspired by Father Seraphim Rose’s pioneering work in the second half of the last century, we wish to bring back to light the gems of the Orthodox Tradition, forgotten by the contemporary Christians.