Orthodoxy

A Biography of Patriarch Tikhon – I – Years of Preparation

In 1865, the town of Toropets in the province of Pskov was almost untouched by any of the advantages…

Archbishop Averky of Syracuse and Holy Trinity [†1976] – What is Orthodoxy

On the First Sunday of the Great Fast our Church celebrates the triumph of Orthodoxy, the victory of true…

Abp. John Maximovitch – The Orthodox Veneration of the Mother of God

Archbishop John, standing firmly in the Holy Tradition of the Fathers, makes no attempt to “theologize” concerning Our Lady…

“Bishop Innocent” by Gleb Podmoshensky

Bishop Innocent, founder of Ame­rican Orthodoxy by Procius Yasuo Ushimaru Metropolitan Council Publications Committee, Bridgeport, Conn. 1964   If…

The New Russian Martyrs

I consider it my duty as an Orthodox Christian and as a human being to relate the following experience…

Saint Ignatius Brianchaninov – On Prayer | Chapter I

It is natural for the poor man to beg, and it is natural for man made poor by the…

Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov – The Vision of Christ

Do you wish to see the Lord Jesus Christ? Come and see, says His Apostle (Jn. 1, 46). Our…

Father Herman, Alaska’s Saint

The Twelve Anathematisms of Cyril

At the close of their letter the Synod summed up the whole in the celebrated twelve anathematisms, composed by…

Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future – Do we have the same God that non-christians have ?